Lyndal Roper

Professor Lyndal Roper FBA FAHA FRHistS
Born	(1956-05-28) 28 May 1956 (age 68) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Title	Regius Professor of History
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Melbourne University of Tübingen King's College, London
Thesis	Work, marriage and sexuality: Women in Reformation Augsburg (1985)
Doctoral advisor	Robert W. Scribner
Academic work
Institutions	Merton College, Oxford King's College London Royal Holloway, University of London Balliol College, Oxford Oriel College, Oxford
Notable students	Laura Gowing

Lyndal Anne Roper FBA FAHA FRHistS (born 28 May 1956) is a historian. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. She works on German history of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and has written a biography of Martin Luther. Her research centres on gender and the Reformation, witchcraft, and visual culture. In 2011 she was appointed to Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman and first Australian to hold this position.^[1]