Ute Frevert


Ute Frevert is a German historian. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary German history, as well as social and gender history. In January 2008, she was appointed managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and director of the Institute's Center for History of Emotions in Berlin.

Life and career

From 1971 to 1977, Ute Frevert studied History and Social Sciences at the Universities of Münster and at London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Bielefeld in 1982 and was habilitated in 1989.
Subsequently, she worked at several research institutions. She held research fellowships at Berlin Institute for Advanced Study from 1989-1990 and 2004-2005 and at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 2000-2001. She was professor for modern history at Free University of Berlin in 1991-1992 and at the University of Konstanz from 1992-1997. After being appointed professor for general history at the University of Bielefeld, she proceeded to hold a professorship for German history at Yale University. Since the winter semester 2008/2009 she is an honorary professor at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Free University of Berlin.
Further, she was a visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997, at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in 2002 at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2003 as well as the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
Frevert is married and has three children.

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