Ute Lotz-Heumann

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Ute Lotz-Heumann is a German-American historian specializing in early modern Irish, German, and British 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.

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, "The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Cultural History" was published by Routledge in 2022.

She is the director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History, University of Arizona
  • 2017–present
    Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, University of Arizona
  • 2010–present
    Acting Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies , University of Arizona
  • 2008–2022
    Associate Professor and Heiko A. Oberman Chair in Late Medieval and Reformation History, University of Arizona
  • 2015–2016
    Acting Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, University of Arizona
  • 2000–2007
    Assistant Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 2005–2006
    Visiting Scholar, Leibniz Institute of European History
  • 2005–2005
    Visiting Scholar, Trinity College, Dublin
  • 1994–2000
    Lecturer, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 1993–1994
    Visiting Scholar, State University of New York

Education

  • 2010 
    Humboldt University, Berlin, Habilitation in History
  • 1999 
    Humboldt University, Berlin, PhD in History, summa cum laude
  • 1993 
    Justus Liebig University, Staatsexamen, with distinction

Publications

  • 2023
    Spas from the 16th to the 19th Century, European History Online
  • 2023
    Kurorte vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, European History Online
  • 2022
    The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Cultural History, Routledge
  • 2019
    A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between , Routledge
  • 2016
    Die Konfessionalisierung ist tot, es lebe die Reformation? Überlegungen zu historiographischen Wellen und Paradigmenwechseln, Annali dell’ Instituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient
  • 2012
    Confessional Migration of the Reformed: The Huguenots, European History Online
  • 2007
    Confessionalization and Literature in the Empire, 1555-1700, Central European History
  • 2002
    The Failure of the Reformation in Ireland: Ein Forschungsbericht zur Reformation und zum konfessionellen Zeitalter in Irland, Zeitschrift für historische Forschung
  • 2001
    The Concept of ‘Confessionalization’: A Historiographical Paradigm in Dispute, Memoria y Civilización: Anuario de Historia
  • 2000
    Die doppelte Konfessionalisierung in Irland: Konflikt und Koexistenz im 16. und in der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts, Mohr Siebeck
  • 1998
    The Irish Reformation in European Perspective, Archive for Reformation History

Professional Memberships

  • Member of the Advisory Board, Spa Museum Hanau-Wilhelmsbad, Germany
  • Member of the editorial board of the book series Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, published by Brill
  • Member of the Kuratorium für vergleichende Städtegeschichte [Committee for Comparative Urban History], Münster, Germany

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