Mary Fulbrook

Mary Jean Alexandra Fulbrook, (née Wilson; born 28 November 1951) is a British academic and historian. Since 1995, she has been Professor of German History at University College London. She is a noted researcher in a wide range of fields, including religion and society in early modern Europe, the German dictatorships of the twentieth century, Europe after the Holocaust, and historiography and social theory. She was then held the Lady Margaret Research Fellowship at New Hall, Cambridge from 1979 to 1982, and was a research associate at King's College London from 1982 to 1983.

On 1 October 1983, Fulbrook joined University College London (UCL) as a lecturer. She was promoted to Reader in German History in 1991, and made Professor of German History in 1995.

Personal life In 1973, the then Mary Wilson married Julian Fulbrook. Together they have one daughter and two sons. She is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). For her monograph, Reckonings, Fulbrook won the 2019 Wolfson History Prize and one of the two "Recognition of Excellence" Cundill Prizes awarded in 2019.

Publications German National Identity after the Holocaust. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999 Historical Theory Routledge, 2003 The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker. New Haven, Conn.; London : Yale University Press, 2008. , Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979: The 'Normalisation of Rule'?. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. , German History Since 1800. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. , Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence Through the German Dictatorships. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. , A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. 2012. , Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice. Oxford University Press. 2018. , Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. 2023. ,