Ute Frevert
Professor
Office: HGS 2682
Phone: (203) 432-6145
Email: ute.frevert@yale.edu
Ute Frevert joined the department in fall 2003 as professor in the field of German history. She came to Yale after teaching at the universities of Berlin, Konstanz, Bielefeld and Zürich since 1983. Professor Frevert has written or edited 14 books and countless articles, and is recognized as one of the leading German historians of her generation.
Some of her best known work has examined the history of women and gender relations in modern Germany, social and medical policy in 19th century Germany, and the impact of military conscription on German society from 1814 to the present day. Her classic study of the duel was praised for superbly connecting cultural and social history. In her most recent work, she uses a similar approach analyzing the political, social and cultural representations of trust. Her book on European identications looks at 19th and 20th century transnationalism as an experience of mutual encounter and influence, of exclusion and inclusion, of trust and distrust.
Professor Frevert was a fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, as well as a visiting professor at Hebrew University and Dartmouth College. She was awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize in 1998.
At Yale, she teaches a wide range of courses, including modern German history from Frederick the Great to Helmut Kohl, social, gender and cultural history of Germany, war and society.
