Alexandria Ruble

Alexandria N. Ruble is an assistant professor of European history. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017. Her research focuses on twentieth-century central Europe, Germany, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, the Cold War, women’s and gender history, and legal history.

Her first book, Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming Dec. 2023) explores how Germans reimagined and recreated new family laws in East and West Germany after 1945, arguing that the Cold War alternately catalyzed and halted reforms in the 1950s and 1960s. Her second book project explores how political prisoners experienced persecution by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945, and how they reintegrated themselves into East and West German societies after 1945. Her work has been supported by the American Association of University Women, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fulbright US Student Program, and the German Academic Exchange Service, among others.