Ulinka Rublack

Ulinka Rublack
FBA FRHistS
Rublack in 2013
Born1967 (age 57–58)
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorRobert W. Scribner
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsSt John's College, Cambridge

Ulinka Rublack FBA FRHistS (born 1967) is a German historian. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and is a professor in Early Modern European History and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Rublack is the founder of the Cambridge History for Schools outreach programme and a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.[1] She is German, and her father Hans-Christoph Rublack [de] was also a historian.

Rublack has been part of the expert panel for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on several occasions. In December 2016 for Kepler; In December 2018 for Thirty Years' War; and in November 2020 for Albrecht Dürer.[2]

Honours

Her book Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Early Modern Europe was winner of the Bainton Book Prize in 2011.[3]

In July 2017, Rublack was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4]

She was announced as the winner of the 2025 Einhard-Preis, for her Albrecht Dürer biography.[5]

Selected publications

  • Rublack, Ulinka (1999), The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany, Oxford Studies in Social History, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-820637-8
  • Rublack, Ulinka (2002), Gender in Early Modern German History, Past and Present Publications, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-81398-3
  • Rublack, Ulinka (2011), Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-929874-7
  • Rublack, Ulinka (2015), The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-873677-6
  • Rublack, Ulinka (2016), The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations, Oxford Handbooks in History, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-964692-0
  • Rublack, Ulinka (2023), Dürer's Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-887310-5

References

  1. ^ "Professor Ulinka Rublack". Faculty of History, Cambridge University. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Johannes Kepler". BBC. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  3. ^ "Sixteenth Century Society & Conference". Sixteenthcentury.org. Retrieved 2016-12-29.
  4. ^ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  5. ^ Official website of Einhard-Stiftung (in German)