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Professor of Early Modern European History, University of Cambridge

Ulinka Rublack was born and raised in Germany, but has taught at Cambridge for nearly twenty years. Her research interests focus on sixteenth and seventeenth century culture, its visual and material aspects, the European Reformation, gender and society as well as methodological concerns.

Her new book, 'The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother', presents the untold story of how the persecution of witchcraft affected families and recasts our sense of Kepler's life and times (Oxford University Press, October 2015). It brings to life a Lutheran community one hundred years after the Reformation began, on the eve of the Thirty Years' War.

Her previous monographs include Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Early Modern Europe, also published by Oxford University Press, which explores the relation between dress and identities in the period, won the Bainton Prize and was one of six books nominated for the Cundill Prize, the largest non-fiction history book prize in the world.

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  • –present
    Professor of Early Modern European History, University of Cambridge