Prof. Dr. Mary Fulbrook, FBA

German

University College London: London, UK <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/German/index.html>

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Professor of German History, and Director, Centre for European Studies, UCL.
Boards: German History; Zeithistorische Forschungen; German Historical Institute London; Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald & Mittelbau-Dora; Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Generations, violence and memory in twentieth-century Germany
'Reckoning with the Past: Communities of Memory in Austria, East and West Germany, France and Poland'
AHRC-funded collaborative research project on 'Reverberations of war in Europe'

Frühere Position(en)

Lady Margaret Research Fellow in Social and Political Sciences, New Hall, Cambridge, 1979-82
Harvard Center for European Studies Krupp Research Fellow, LSE, 1976-77
Director, AHRC-sponsored project on 'The "Normalisation of Rule"? State and society in the GDR, 1961-79'.
(First female) Chair of the German History Society (1996-99); Joint founding Editor, German History, 1984-94; Member, UCL Council, 2003-07. Member, AHRC Research Panel for History, 2004-07. Mayoress, London Borough of Camden, 1985-86 Many school governorships, other committee memberships etc.

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Fulbrook, Mary, The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker (Yale University Press, 2005)
Fulbrook, Mary, A Concise History of Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn., 2004)
Fulbrook, Mary, Historical Theory (Routledge, 2002)
Fulbrook, Mary, A History of Germany 1918-2000: The Divided Nation (Blackwell, 2nd edn, 2002)
Fulbrook, Mary, Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945-1990 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edn., 2000)
Fulbrook, Mary, German National Identity after the Holocaust (Polity Press, 1999)
Fulbrook, Mary, Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-89 (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Fulbrook, Mary, Piety and Politics: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Württemberg and Prussia (Cambridge University Press, 1983; reissued, 2003)

Artikel

Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Approaches to German contemporary history since 1945: Politics and paradigms’, Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, Vol. 1, no. 1 (2004), pp. 31-50.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Ein “ganz normales Leben”? Neue Forschungen zur Sozialgeschichte der DDR’ in Heiner Timmermann (ed.), Das war die DDR. DDR-Forschung im Fadenkreuz von Herrschaft, Außenbeziehungen, Kultur und Souveränität (Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2004).
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Generationen und Kohorten in der DDR. Protagonisten und Widersacher des DDR-Systems aus der Perspektive biographischer Daten’ in Annegret Schüle, Thomas Ahbe and Rainer Gries (eds.), Die DDR aus generationengeschichtlicher Perspektive. Eine Inventur (Universitätsverlag Leipzig, 2004).
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘DDR-Forschung bis 1989/90’ in Rainer Eppelmann, Bernd Faulenbach and Ulrich Mählert (eds.), Bilanz und Perspektiven der DDR-Forschung (Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003), pp. 363-370.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Retheorising “state” and “society” in the German Democratic Republic’, in P. Major and J. Osmond (eds.), The Workers’ and Peasants’ State: Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945-71 (Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 280-298.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Democratic centralism and regionalism in the GDR’, in Maiken Umbach (ed.), German Federalism: Past, Present and Future (Palgrave, 2002), pp. 146-171.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Fact, Fantasy and German History’ (1999 Annual Lecture of the GHI Washington), Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington No. 26, Spring 2000, pp. 3-34.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Aufarbeitung der DDR-Vergangenheit und “innere Einheit” - ein Widerspruch?’ in Christoph Kleßmann and Hans Misselwitz (eds.), Deutsche Vergangenheiten - eine gemeinsame Herausforderung (Berlin: Chr. Links Verlag, 1999)
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘DDR-Geschichtswissenschaft und Geschichtspolitik’ in Georg Iggers, Konrad Jarausch, Matthias Middell, Martin Sabrow (eds.), Die DDR-Geschichtswissenschaft als Forschungsproblem (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998; Historische Zeitschrift, Beiheft 27).
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Reckoning with the Past: Heroes, Victims and Villains in the History of the German Democratic Republic’ in Reinhard Alter and Peter Monteath (eds.), Rewriting the German Past (Humanities Press, 1997).
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘The Limits of Totalitarianism: God, State and Society in the GDR’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., vol. vii, 1997.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Methodologische Überlegungen zu einer Gesellschaftsgeschichte der DDR’ in R. Bessel and R. Jessen (eds.), Grenzen der Diktatur (Göttingen: Vandenhoek und Ruprecht, 1996), pp. 274-97.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Herrschaft, Gehorsam und Verweigerung: Die DDR als Diktatur’ in J. Kocka (ed.), Die DDR als Geschichte (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994), pp. 77-85.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Christopher Hill and historical sociology’ in G. Eley and W. Hunt (eds.), Reviving the English Revolution: Reflections and Elaborations on the Work of Christopher Hill (Verso, 1988), pp. 31-51.
Fulbrook, Mary,With Theda Skocpol, ‘Destined pathways: the historical sociology of Perry Anderson’ in T. Skocpol (ed.), Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 170-210.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Legitimation crises and the early modern state: the politics of religious toleration’ in K. von Greyerz (ed.), Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe (George Allen and Unwin, 1984), pp. 146-58.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘The English revolution and the revisionist revolt’, Social History, Vol. 7, no. 3, October 1982, pp. 249-64. Reprinted in P. Gaunt (ed), The English Civil War: The Essential Readings (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Religion, revolution and absolutist rule in Germany and England’, European Studies Review, Vol. 7, no. 3, July 1982, pp. 301-21.
Fulbrook, Mary, ‘Max Weber's “Interpretive Sociology”: a comparison of conception and practice’, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 29, no. 1, March 1978, pp. 71-82.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Fulbrook, Mary, Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-79: The 'Normalisation of Rule'? (Berghahn, 2009)
Fulbrook, Mary, Un-Civilising Processes? Excess and Transgression in German Society and Culture. Perspectives debating with Norbert Elias. (Rodopi, 2007)
Fulbrook, Mary, Twentieth-century Germany (Arnold, 2001)
Fulbrook, Mary, with Martin Swales, Representing the German Nation (Manchester University Press, 2000)
Fulbrook, Mary, The Short Oxford History of Europe, 1945 - 2000 (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Fulbrook, Mary, with John Breuilly, German History since 1800 (Arnold, 1997)
Fulbrook, Mary, with David Cesarani, Citizenship, Nationality and Migration in Europe, (London: Routledge, 1996)
Fulbrook, Mary,National Histories and European History (UCL Press, 1993)

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

Social history; comparative history; autobiography, fiction and historical representations; history in film. Director of the documentary: "Behind the Wall: 'Perfectly Normal Lives' in the GDR?", MacayaFilm 2007.