Ute Frevert is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin where she founded the Research Center for the History of Emotions in 2008. She was Professor of German History at Yale University from 2003 to 2007, having previously taught at the universities of Konstanz, Bielefeld and the Freie Universität in Berlin. AS of February 2023, she also serves as the President of the Max Weber Foundation.
Among her best-known publicatons (in English) are The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History (2020); Emotions in History – Lost and Found (2011); A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society (2004); Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural History of the Duel (1995), and Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation (1989). Her latest book is on The Power of Emotions in Twentieth Century Germany (forthcoming CUP 2023).
Read more about Ute here: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/staff/ute-frevert