Jan Plamper

January Plamper (* 1970 in Laichingen ) is a German historian and since 2012 professor of history at Goldsmiths College of the University of London . His research areas include Eastern European history , the history of emotions , the history of the senses and the history of migration .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1989 at the Uhland-Gymnasium Tübingen and the BA in history in 1992 at Brandeis University , he did a different service in the open work of the elderly at Memorial in St. Petersburg until 1994 with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste .

In 2001 he received his doctorate in history with Yuri Slezkine at the University of California, Berkeley with a thesis on the personality cult of Josef Stalin . From 2001 to 2008 he was a research assistant to Dietrich Beyrau at the Institute for Eastern European History at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen , from 2008 to 2012 Dilthey Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Ute Frevert's research area History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin . Plamper was a scholarship holder at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena and Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald .

His study on the cult of images around Stalin, published under the title Alchimija vlasti , became a bestseller in Russia.

Fonts

Monographs

• The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-16952-2 .
• History and Feeling: Basics of the History of Emotions. Siedler, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-88680-914-1 .
• The new we. Why migration is part of it: Another story for Germans. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397283-2 .

Editing

• Klaus Heller, Jan Plamper (eds.), Personality Cults in Stalinism - Personality Cults in Stalinism. V & R unipress, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89971-191-2 .
• Jan Plamper (Ed.), Boundaries in History. Scientific cultures in international comparison, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 52, issue 10 (2004)
• Jan Plamper (Ed.), Emotional Turn? Feelings in Russian History and Culture, Slavic Review 68, Issue 2 (2009)
• Jan Plamper, Schamma Schahadat, Marc Elie (eds.), Rossijskaja imperija čuvstv: Podchody k kul'turnoj istorii ėmocij. NLO, Moscow 2010, ISBN 978-5-86793-785-0 .
• Jan Plamper, Benjamin Lazier (Eds.), Fear Beyond the Disciplines, Representations, Issue 110 (2010)
• Jan Plamper, Benjamin Lazier (Eds.), Fear: Across the Disciplines, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh 2012, ISBN 978-0-8229-6220-5 .
• Nikolaj Michajlov, Jan Plamper (eds.), Malen'kij čelovek i bol'šaja vojna v istorii Rossii, seredina XIX - seredina XX v. Nestor-Istorija, St. Petersburg 2014, ISBN 978-5-4469-0480-8 .

Web links

• Jan Plamper on the website of the History Department, Goldsmiths, University of London
• Deutschlandfunk cultural issues. Debates and Documents of July 21, 2019: People Have Many Affiliations. Historian Jan Plamper on diversity in conversation with Michael Köhler

Footnotes

1. ↑ uni-jena.de: Former Fellows 2016
2. ↑ Kerstin Holm : The despot as host in the land of icons, in: FAZ No. 58, March 10, 2010, p. N3.
3. ↑ Susan Neiman : Migration as a Success Story (Review, spiegel.de May 12, 2019)