Lyndal Roper

Lyndal Anne Roper 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 became the first woman and the first Australian to be appointed to the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford, a position she held until 2026.