Ute Frevert

Frevert HoE Portrait Portraet

Director em. Center for the History of Emotions

 

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Phone: +49 30 82406-262
sekfrevert@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

Memberships and Service (Selection)

  • President of the Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes Abroad
  • Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, London

Short CV

Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society
Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, 2008- 2024   
Professor for German History, Yale University, USA, 2003-2007,    
Professor of History, University of Bielefeld, 1997-2003     
Professor of Modern History, University of Konstanz, 1992-1997     
Professor of Modern History, Freie Universität Berlin, 1991-1992      
Habilitation in Modern History, University of Bielefeld, 1989     
PhD, University of Bielefeld, 1982


Research Interests

  • Modern Social, Political and Cultural History
  • History of Emotions
  • Gender History

Selected Literature

(English only; for a complete list, please see PDF on German website version)

  • Frevert, U. (2024). Writing the history of emotions: Concepts and practices, economies and politics. London: Bloomsbury.

  • Frevert, U., & Pahl, K. M. (Eds.). (2023 [2024]). Revisiting the history of emotions [Themenheft]. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 49(1).

  • Frevert, U. (2023).The power of emotions: A history of Germany from 1900 to the present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Frevert, U. (2022). Emotional styles in postwar German politics. In K. Larres, H. Moroff, & R. Wittlinger (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of German politics (pp. 33–44). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Frevert, U., Pahl, K. M., Buscemi, F., Nielsen, P., Arndt, A., Amico, M., Lichau, K., Malone, H., Wambach, J., Brauer, J., & Moine, C. (2022). Feeling political: Emotions and institutions since 1789. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [Open Access] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89858-8
  • Frevert, U. (2021). Affect theory and history of emotions. Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method Article. London: Bloomsbury, (Retrieved October 18, 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350970878.069).
  • Frevert, U. (2021). Humiliation and modernity: Ongoing practices, changing sensibilities. Cultural History, 10(2), 282–289. https://doi.org/10.3366/cult.2021.0249
    (Book Forum: Ute Frevert’s The Politics of Humiliation (S. 262-289) with further contributions by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Lucy Noakes, and David Nash).
  • Frevert, U. (2020). The politics of humiliation: A modern history. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020.
  • Frevert, U. (2020). The emotional language of flowers. In D. Hillard, H. Lempa, & R. Spinney (Eds.), Feelings materialized: Emotions, bodies, and things in Germany, 1500-1950 (pp. 202–221). New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Frevert, U. (2020). Emotions in times of war: Private and public, individual and collective. In C. Langhamer, L. Noakes, & C. Siebrecht (Eds.), Total war: An emotional history (pp. 21–39). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Frevert, U. (2019). Diplomats: Kneeling and the protocol of humiliation. In B. Gammerl, P. Nielsen, & M. Pernau (Eds.), Encounters with emotions: Negotiating cultural differences since early modernity (pp. 133-159). New York: Berghahn.
  • Frevert, U. (2019). (Ed.), Moral economies (Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Sonderheft No. 26). 239 p. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Frevert, U. (2019). Moral economies, present and past: Social practices and intellectual controversies. In U. Frevert (Ed.), Moral economies (Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Sonderheft No. 26) (pp. 13-43). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Frevert, U. (2019). In public: Emotional politics. In S. Bromhall, J. W. Davidson, A. Lynch (Series Eds.), & S. J. Matt (Vol. Ed.), A cultural history of the emotions: Vol. 5. A cultural history of the emotions in the age of romanticism, revolution and empire (1780-1920) (pp. 157-174). London: Bloomsbury.
  • Frevert, U. (2018). 'Hans in Luck' or the moral economy of happiness in the modern age. History of European Ideas. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/01916599.2018.1534448
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  • Frevert, U. (2018). Historicizing emotions. Emotion Researcher: ISRE's Sourcebook for Research on Emotion and Affect. Retrieved March 14, 2018,
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  • Frevert, U. (2016). The history of emotions. In L. Feldman Barrett, M. Lewis, & J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (4th ed., pp. 49-65). New York: Guilford Press.
  • Frevert, U. (2016). Empathy in the Theater of Horror, or Civilizing the Human Heart. In A. Assmann & I. Detmers (Eds.), Empathy and its Limits (pp. 79-99). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • (2015). Faith, love, hate: The national socialist politics of emotions. In W. Nerdinger & H.-G. Hockerts (Eds.), Munich and National Socialism: Catalogue of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism (pp. 479-486, 588-589). München: Beck.
  • Frevert, U. (2014). with Eitler, P., Olsen, S., Jensen, U., Pernau, M., Brückenhaus, D., Beljan, M., Gammerl, B., Laukötter, A., Hitzer, B., Plamper, J., Brauer, J., & Häberlen, J. Learning how to feel: Children's literature and emotional socialization, 1870-1970. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Frevert, U. (2014). with Scheer, M., Schmidt, A., Eitler, P., Hitzer, B., Verheyen, N., Gammerl, B., Bailey, C., & Pernau, M. Emotional lexicons: Continuity and change in the vocabulary of feeling 1700-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Frevert, U. (2014). Passions, preferences, and animal spirits: How does Homo Oeconomicus cope with emotions? In F. Biess & D. M. Gross (Eds.), Science and emotions after 1945: A transatlantic perspective (pp. 300-317). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Frevert, U. (2014). Honour and /or /as Passion: Historical trajectories of legal defenses. Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 22, 245-255.
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  • Frevert, U. (2014). The modern history of emotions: A research center in Berlin. Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, 36, 31-55. doi:10.5209/rev_CHCO.2014.v36.46681
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  • Frevert, U. (2014). Wartime emotions: Honour, shame, and the ecstasy of sacrifice. In U. Daniel, P. Gatrell, O. Janz, H. Jones, J. Keene, A. Kramer, & B. Nasson (Eds.), 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.15463/ie1418.10409
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  • Frevert, U. (2011). Emotions in history - Lost and found. Budapest: Central European University Press. (Full text)
    (Japanese translation: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Press, in press)
  • Frevert, U. (2011). Jewish hearts and minds? Feelings of belonging and political choices among East German intellectuals. Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 56, 353-384.
  • Frevert, U. (2010). Trust as work. In J. Kocka (Ed.), Work in a modern society: The German historical experience in comparative perspective (New German Historical Perspectives No. 3) (pp. 93-108). New York: Berghahn.
  • Frevert, U. (2004). A nation in barracks: Modern Germany, military conscription and civil society. Oxford: Berg.
  • Frevert, U. (1995). Men of honour: A social and cultural history of the duel. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Frevert, U. (1989). Women in German history: From Bourgeois emancipation to sexual liberation. Oxford: Berg.
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