Ute Frevert is professor of German history at Yale University. She is a specialist in modern Germany, with an interest in social history. She was previously on the faculty of the University of Berlin, the University of Konstanz, and the University of Bielefeld in Germany, and also the University of Zürich in Switzerland.

Awards

Frevert received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for her historical research in 1998.

Published works

• A Nation in Barracks: Modern Germany, Military Conscription and Civil Society. Translated by Andrew Boreham. New York: Berg, 2004.
• Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural History of the Duel. Translated by Anthony Williams. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
• Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation. Translated by Stuart McKinon-Evans. New York: Berg, 1989.

External links

• Ute Frevert on Yale's Website
• The EU's Changing of the Guard
• The Leibniz Prize recipient list