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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Mark Jackson FBA
Mark Jackson's research interests are the and cultural history of modern science and medicine; the history of crime and justice in Britain since 1700, particularly in relation to class and gender; and medical humanities and health policy.
Professor Claire Louise Langhamer FBA
The social and cultural history of modern Britain; the history of feeling and everyday experience; life histories, life writing and Mass-Observation.
Professor Heonik Kwon FBA
The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology
