Professor Ute Frevert FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Summary
Ute Frevert has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society since 2008. Between 2003 and 2007 she was professor of German history at Yale University and prior to that she taught History at the Universities of Konstanz, Bielefeld and the Free University in Berlin. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and serves on several scientific boards. She was awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize in 1998.
Current post
Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Publications
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The political and cultural history of China, and of China’s external relations and impact, between the 19th and 21st centuries; the translation and reception of Chinese literature
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African and African American literary criticism; African American intellectual and cultural history; genetics and genealogy; producing documentary films about the African Diaspora and genetics and genealogy
Professor Robert Gildea FBA
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French history; Second World War; Europe's 1968; historical memory and oral history
