Ute Frevert (born 10 June 1954 in Schötmar, Bad Salzuflen, North Rhine-Westphalia) 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

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and director of the Institute's Center for History of Emotions in Berlin.

Education

From 1971 to 1977, Ute Frevert studied History and Social Sciences at the Universities of

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and at

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. She received her PhD from the

University of Bielefeld Bielefeld University () is a public university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the e ...

in 1982 and was

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in 1989.

Career and research

Frevert worked at several research institutions. She held research fellowships at

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from 1989 to 1990 and 2004–2005 and at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at

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from 2000 to 2001. She was professor for modern history at

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in 1991–1992 and at the

University of Konstanz The University of Konstanz () is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's southernmost university and is ...

from 1992 to 1997. After being appointed professor for general history at the

, she proceeded to hold a professorship for German history at

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. Since the winter semester 2008/2009 she is an honorary professor at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at

. Frevert was a visiting professor at

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in 1997, at

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in 2002 at the

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in 2003 as well as the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Her research has focused on social and cultural history, evaluating gender relations, and the impact of policies, like military conscription and customs like dueling have impacted the human experience.

Awards and honours

* 1998: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize * 2004: Member of the

Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (), in short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded on 1 January 1652, based on academic models in Italy, it was originally named the ''Academi ...

* 2009: Member of the

Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences () was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer. In the 18th century, when French ...

* 2013:

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* 2016: Officer's Cross of the

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (, or , BVO) is the highest state decoration, federal decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It may be awarded for any field of endeavor. It was created by the first List of president ...

* 2018: Honorary degree from the

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Wahl zum Konstanzer Universitätsrat: Eine Wiederwahl, eine Neubestellung
(in German), section "Über Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Frevert".

Universität Konstanz The University of Konstanz () is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Its main campus was opened on the Gießberg in 1972 after being founded in 1966. The university is Germany's southernmost university and is s ...

. Retrieved 29 May 2020. * 2020:

Sigmund Freud Prize The Sigmund Freud Prize or Sigmund Freud Prize for Academic Prose (German: ''Sigmund Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa'') is a German literary award named after Sigmund Freud and awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (G ...

Selected works

Author

*''A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society.'' Translated by Andrew Boreham. New York: Berg, 2004. *''Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural History of the Duel.'' Translated by Anthony Williams. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. *''Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation.'' Translated by Stuart McKinon-Evans. New York: Berg, 1989. *''Emotions in History – Lost and Found''. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2011 *''Learning How to Feel. Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870–1970''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. *''The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Editor

*''Moral economies (Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Sonderheft No. 26).'' Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019.

Thesis

References

External links

Ute Frevert at the Max Planck Institute
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