Prof. Sara Butler, Ph.D.

Sara M. Butler is Professor of British History at Ohio State University.

Holding a Ph.D. from Dalhousie University, she is the director of the Center for Historical Research at Ohio State University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in England. Her research focuses on the social history of the law. She has authored four books: Pain, Penance and Protest: Peine Forte et Dure in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England (Routledge, 2015), Divorce in Medieval England: From One to Two Persons at Law (Routledge, 2013), The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England (Brill, 2007).

Sara Butler is a member of Prof. Dr. Julia Burkhardt’s CAS Research Group “Femicide: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Historical Phenomenon”. She will be in Munich as a Visiting Fellow from January to March 2026.