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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Global history, especially connections between Europe and Asia; economic history; historiography and intellectual history; early modern history
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The social, cultural, and political history of the late Russian Empire; Russian Revolution and Civil War; history of sexuality; history of law and medicine in Russia and modern Europe
Professor Carolyn Steedman FBA
The social & cultural history of the English eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, with a focus of categories such as 'law' & 'labour' in the making of seflhood & identity
