Mary Fulbrook
Professor of German History, University College London

Mary Fulbrook, FBA, is Professor of German History at UCL and a graduate of Cambridge and Harvard. Previous professional roles include Chair of the Modern History Section of the British Academy, Chair of the German History Society, and Founding Joint Editor of German History, as well as serving on the Academic Advisory Board of the Foundation for the former Nazi Concentration Camps at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, and the International Advisory Board of the Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation. Her latest book, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, is published by OUP in October 2018. Recent publications include the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (OUP 2012) and Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships (OUP 2011; two volume paperback, 2017).  Fulbrook has been awarded a number of major research grants from the Leverhulme Trust and the AHRC, and is the author or editor of 25 books, including Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-89 (OUP 1995) and The People’s State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker (Yale UP, 2005). Her current research is on complicity and perpetration, with a focus on the role of bystanders.