Ute Lotz-Heumann

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Ute Lotz-Heumann (born 1966) is a German-American historian specializing in early modern Irish and German history and the history of the European Reformations and Enlightenment. She is the Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. [1]

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Education

Lotz-Heumann holds a Ph.D. in History from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where she also received her habilitation in 2010. [2]

Career

She has published extensively in both German and English on topics relating to cultural history, the historiography of the Reformation, and the histories of both Ireland and Germany. Her most recent publication, A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between was published by Routledge in 2019. [3] She is currently working on a collaborative international digital humanities project on Shared Churches in Early Modern Europe, along with David Luebke (University of Oregon), Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer (University of Arizona), and Andrew Spicer (Oxford-Brookes University). Lotz-Heumann is well known in the field of Reformation historiography, having been selected to lead a conference at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Germany entitled "The Cultural History of the Reformation: Current Research and Future Perspectives." [4] [5] [6] She is also a member of the Editorial Board for the scholarly series Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions published by Brill. [7]

She is currently the director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona, [8] and the North American Managing Co-Editor of the Archive for Reformation History. [9]

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References

  1. "Ute Lotz-Heumann". Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies. University of Arizona.
  2. Ute Lotz-Heumann. The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century A Cultural History.
  3. "A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History Life, Death, and Everything in Between, 1st Edition Edited by Ute Lotz-Heumann". Routledge.
  4. "The Cultural History of the Reformation: Current Research and Future Perspectives". Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften. H-Soz-Kult.
  5. Heumann, Ute Lotz. "Cited research articles, chapters, and books". Google Scholar. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  6. "Author page search for Ute Lotz Heumann". JSTOR .
  7. "Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions". Brill.
  8. The Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies | https://dlmrs.arizona.edu/
  9. "Editors – Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History". arcrefhist.sbs.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-05.