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Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) at University College London. She has held significant leadership roles at UCL including Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences (2013-2018), Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinarity) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2010-2013), and Head of the German Department for nearly twelve years (1995-2006). She has also served as Director of the UCL European Institute and on UCL Council.
Her educational background includes a BA and MA from Newnham College, Cambridge, and an AM and PhD from Harvard University. She has held prestigious fellowships including a Harvard Center for European Studies Krupp Fellowship at the LSE and a Lady Margaret Research Fellowship at New Hall (now Murray Edwards), Cambridge.
Mary Fulbrook's research focuses on German history, particularly Holocaust studies, Nazi Germany, and the history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Her current research examines hiding and rescue during the Holocaust across Nazi-dominated Europe. She is known for path-breaking works on the GDR including Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR 1949-1989 and The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker, as well as influential Holocaust studies such as A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust and Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice. Her scholarship consistently explores the intersections of individual experience and broader historical processes, examining how ordinary people navigated extreme conditions of Nazi and East German dictatorships.
Her recent publications demonstrate continued focus on bystander behavior, complicity, and long-term reverberations of Nazi violence, with her 2023 book Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust representing a major contribution to understanding social dynamics during the Holocaust, building on her earlier prize-winning work A Small Town near Auschwitz.
- Wolfson History Prize (2019)
- Cundill Recognition of Excellence Award
- Fraenkel Prize
- Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
She currently supervises PhD students and teaches courses on the Holocaust and the history of Berlin. Her teaching spans from introductory German history courses covering medieval to contemporary periods, to specialized source-led teaching on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and MA courses on theoretical issues in history and literature. She is currently directing an AHRC-DFG sponsored collaborative research project on community and citizenship during the Holocaust, building on previous AHRC grants focused on complicity and perpetration under Nazism, reverberations of war in Europe since 1945, and power and society in the GDR.
Mary Fulbrook maintains deep engagement with Holocaust memory institutions, serving as Trustee of the Wiener Holocaust Library London, member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Memorial Foundation for the former concentration camps of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, and member of the Academic Advisory Board of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation. She has also served on the Council of the British Academy and as Chair of its Modern History Section, reflecting her significant contributions to the historical profession.
