Lyndal Roper

Lyndal Anne Roper (born 28 May 1956 in Melbourne) is an Australian historian and academic. 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 the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, the first woman and first Australian to hold this position. Provided by Wikipedia