Mary Fulbrook

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Mary Fulbrook (born November 28, 1951 in Cardiff ) is a British historian and internationally renowned professor of modern German history .

Origin and education

Mary Fulbrook was born as Mary Jean Alexandra Cochran in Cardiff / Wales in 1951. She spent her childhood in Wales and Birmingham . Her father was the Canadian professor of crystallography Arthur James Cochran , her mother the Berlin-born criminologist Harriett Charlotte Wilson, who had to leave Germany in 1936 for political and racial reasons.

After graduating from school in 1969, she studied history, archeology and anthropology , politics and social sciences from 1970, first at Cambridge University (1973 BA, 1977 MA) and then at Harvard (1975 MA), where she wrote a thesis on Piety and Politics: Religion in 1979 and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Württemberg and Prussia .

Career

From 1977/78 she was a lecturer at Brunel University in Uxbridge , from 1979 to 1982 as a research fellow and research assistant at Cambridge University (New Hall / Murray Edwards College) and from 1982 to 1983 at King's College in London . She has been working at University College London (UCL) since 1983 , initially as a lecturer and since 1995 as professor of German history. From 1991 to 2010 she was director of the Center for European Studies at UCL. She is currently Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities .

Not without reference to her mother's biography, Mary Fulbrook tries to respectfully understand modern German history as a complicated balancing act between a fascinating country with great culture and the abysses of the Holocaust with all political and social aspects. In addition, she is interested in the different social, cultural and political developments of two German states as a result of the Third Reich and the Second World War, as well as their convergence after the fall of the Wall in 1989. a. supported by the Harvard Center for European Studies Krupp Fellowship at the London School of Economics or the Lady Margaret Research Fellowship New Hall, Cambridge .

As an internationally renowned professor of modern German history, Mary Fulbrook is chair of the contemporary history section of the British Academy , a member of the international board of trustees of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation , a member of the scientific board of trustees of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation and the advisory board of German Historical Institute London (GHIL) as well as a former member of the board of directors of the Great Ormond Street Hospital School for Sick Children and founding editor of the German History journal . The Journal of the German History Society .

In 2019, Fulbrook received the Wolfson History Prize for Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice .

Private life

The avowed Labor supporter has been married to the lawyer Julian George Holder Fulbrook since 1973 and the couple has three children.

Fonts

  • Piety and Politics: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Württemberg and Prussia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983, ISBN 0-521-27633-0 .
  • Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945–1990. 2nd edition. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, ISBN 0-312-23190-3 .
  • Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR 1949–1989. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1995, ISBN 0-19-820720-4 .
  • German National Identity after the Holocaust. Cambridge: Polity Press 1999, ISBN 0-7456-1045-5 .
  • Historical Theory. London: Routledge 2002; ISBN 0-415-17986-6 .
  • A Concise History of Germany. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004, ISBN 0-521-54071-2 .
  • The People's State. East German Society from Hitler to Honecker New Haven: Yale University Press 2005, ISBN 0-300-10884-2 .
    • German edition: A completely normal life. Everyday life and society in the GDR. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-89678-643-2 .
  • A History of Germany 1918-2008: The Divided Nation. 3rd edition. Malden, Oxford, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2009, ISBN 978-1-4051-8814-2 .
  • Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-928720-8 .
  • A small town near Auschwitz. Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-960330-5 .
    • German edition: A small town near Auschwitz. Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust. (= Rhine Province. Volume 23). Translated from the English by Eva Eckinger. Essen: Klartext 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-0980-9 .
  • Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0198811237

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personal data
SURNAME Fulbrook, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff