Ute Frevert – Curriculum Vitae

Office

Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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D-14195 Berlin

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E-Mail: sekfrevert@mpib-berlin.mpg.de


 

Education

 

1989 Habilitation in Modern History, University of Bielefeld
1982 PhD, University of Bielefeld
1977 First Degree, Humanities, University of Bielefeld
1971–1977 History and Social Sciences Studies, University of Münster, University of Bielefeld, London School of Economics
1971 A Levels

 


Professional Experience (selected)

since 2008 Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
2003–2007 Professor for German History, Yale University, USA
1997–2003 Professor of History, University of Bielefeld
1992–1997 Professor of Modern History, University of Konstanz
1991–1992 Professor of Modern History, Freie Universität Berlin


Scholarships, Fellowships, Guest Professorships, Honours & Awards

2020 Sigmund-Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa (Prize for Academic Prose), German Academy for Language and Literature
2020 Ernst Hellmut Vits Prize, Universitätsgesellschaft Münster
2018 Honorary doctorate, University of Tampere (Finland)
2016 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1st class
2013 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, London
2009 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
(2020-2023: Member of the Council)
2008 Honorary Professor, Freie Universität Berlin
2004 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
(2020-2023: Member of the Presidium)
2004 - 2005 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
2003 Visiting Professor, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
2003 Visiting Professor, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
2002 Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
2000 - 2001 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
1998 Leibniz Award, German Research Foundation
1997 Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1989 - 1990 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
1989 Habilitation Scholarship, German Research Foundation
1979 - 1981 Doctoral Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
1972 - 1978 Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation

 

 



Academic Activities

Boards of Trustees

2023 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Historisches Kolleg
2023 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum Transregionale Studien
2021 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation German-Israeli Future Forum
2018 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel
2016 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Körber Foundation
2015 - 2023 Member of the University Council Konstanz (December 2016 - June 2020: Chairperson)
2013 - 2018 Member of the Board of Governors of the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
2013 - 2016 Member of the Board of Trustees for ‘Bildung und Kultur’ (Education and Culture) in the Advisory Board of the Deutsche Bahn Foundation
2012 - 2017 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden
2010 - 2014 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin
2007 - 2012 Member of the Board of Governors of the Jacobs University Bremen
2007 - 2013 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam
2007 - 2015 Member of the Board of Trustees of the German History Competition organised by the Körber Foundation
2000 - 2003 Member of the Board of Trustees of the German National Academic Foundation

 


 

Scientific Advisory Boards

2021 - Member of the Advisory Board of the Research Initiative “ConTrust: Trust in Conflict – Political Life under Conditions of Uncertainty“ (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
2017 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies
2017 - 2019 Member of the Advisory Board of Deutschlandjahr (Year of Germany) USA 2018/2019 of the Federal Foreign Office, Goethe-Institut and BDI
2016 - 2022 Member of the Advisory Board Bachelor Programme Studium Individuale, Leuphana Lüneburg University
2012 - 2014 Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
2011 - 2019 Member of the Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute, Washington DC (since November 2016: Chairperson)
2011 - 2017 Member of the Advisory Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, Vienna
2009 - 2015 Member of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2008 - 2022 Member of the Board of Advisors of the Einstein Forum, Potsdam
2008 - 2013 Member of the Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz
2008 - 2012 Member of the Advisory Board of the Dahlem Konferenzen at the Freie Universität Berlin
2003 - Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
2000 - 2009 Member of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam
1999 - 2002 Member of the Baden-Württemberg Federal State Research Council
1998 - 2001 Member of the Advisory Board, Goethe Institute
1997 - 2009 Member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld
1997 - 2007 Member of the Advisory Board of the German History Competition organised by the Kurt-A.-Körber Foundation

 


 

Research Funding Agencies

2016 - 2017 Luxembourg National Research Fund expert committee PRIDE
2014 - 2017 Chairperson of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society
2012 - 2014 Deputy Chairperson of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society
2012 - 2017 European Research Council, Panel Member
2000 - 2006 Member of the Nominations Committee of the German Research Foundation for the Leibniz Programme
1999 - 2003 Mentor, German National Academic Foundation
1998 - 2000 Member of the German-American Academic Council Foundation
1996 - 2000 Panel Expert for Modern History at the German Research Foundation

 


 

Other Professional Activities

2016 - Member of the Council of The Society for the History of Emotions
2012 - 2020 Spokesperson and Principal Investigator of the International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies
2009 - 2012 Member of the Selection committee of the American Academy in Berlin
2001 - 2003 Spokesperson of the Research Group "Politics as Communication in History", University of Bielefeld
1996 - 1998 Member of the Executive Committee of the German Historians' Association
1990 - 2022 Member of the working group for Modern Social History
   
   


Editorial Boards (Journals)

2009-2023        Co-editor and Managing Director of the journal "Geschichte und Gesellschaft"


 

Scientific Advisory Boards (Journals)

  • L'Homme. Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft
  • Journal of Modern History
  • Journal of Contemporary History
  • European Studies Review
  • International Review of Social History
  • The Historical Journal
  • Sensibilités. Histoire, critique & sciences sociales
  • Emotions and Society

 

 

 

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