She is a former Humboldt Fellow and an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the History Department at the University of Melbourne, where she also holds an Honorary Doctorate. Professor Roper is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal History Society, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften. Her biography of Luther, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Bodley Head, 2016), was shortlisted for both the Wolfson History Prize and the Elizabeth Longford Prize. Witch Craze (Yale, 2004), which examined trials of women accused of witchcraft, was awarded the Roland H Bainton Prize in 2005. Her first book, The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg (Oxford University Press, 1989), questioned the ways in which the Reformation changed gender relations. She was the Joint Editor of the academic journal Past & Present from 2000-2012, and is well-known for her publications, especially on Luther and the Reformation.

Professor Roper’s expertise lies in early modern German history, sixteenth century German Art and material culture, the history of witchcraft and gender history. She is now a Fellow of Oriel College where she has held the Regius Professorship in History since 2011: the first woman, and first Australian, to do so. In 2002, Professor Roper returned to Oxford as Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College.

Oxford, it seems, couldn’t keep her, and Lyndal returned to the University of London to work at King’s College and then Royal Holloway, where she became a Professor in 1999 and founded, with Professor Amanda Vickery, the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender. It was during this period that Lyndal first came to Oxford, in 1983, to work as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton for three years. The Warden and Fellows of Merton College in 1983 - Lyndal Roper is seated in the front row, second from right. These scholarships allowed her to continue her research overseas, to first study at the University of Tübingen in Germany and then at King’s College, London, where she completed her doctorate in 1985. Soon after, she won the first Caltex Woman Graduate of the Year Scholarship, as well as scholarships from the University Women Graduates’ Association and the German Academic Exchange Service. Hailing from Australia, it was at the University of Melbourne that Professor Lyndal Roper completed an undergraduate degree in History with Philosophy.

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