Jan Plamper (born 1970) is a German professor of history at the University of Limerick. His research interests include Russian history, the history of emotions,

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, and the history of migration. After obtaining a B.A. in History at Brandeis University in 1992, Plamper did social work for

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in St. Petersburg. In 2001 he received his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Slezkine on Joseph Stalin's personality cult. He subsequently taught at

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and from 2008 to 2012 was a Dilthey Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at Ute Frevert's ''Center for the History of Emotions'',

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, in Berlin. From 2012 to 2021 he was professor of history at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he initiated the MA programs i
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history. Plamper has held fellowships at ''Historisches Kolleg'' in Munich, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, and Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald.

Selected works

Monographs

*''Das neue Wir. Warum Migration dazugehört: Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen''. S. Fischer, 2019, . *''The History of Emotions: An Introduction.'' Oxford University Press, 2015, . *''The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power.'' Yale University Press, 2012, .

Edited volumes and journal issues

* Nikolai Mikhailov, Jan Plamper (eds.), ''Malen’kii chelovek i bol’shaia voina v istorii Rossii, seredina XIX – seredina XX v.'' Nestor-Istoriia, 2014, . * Jan Plamper, Benjamin Lazier (eds.), ''Fear: Across the Disciplines'', University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, . * Jan Plamper, Benjamin Lazier (eds.), ''Fear Beyond the Disciplines'', Representations, no. 110 (2010) * Jan Plamper, Schamma Schahadat, Marc Elie (eds.), ''Rossiiskaia imperiia chuvstv: Podkhody k kul’turnoi istorii emotsii.'' NLO, 2010, . * Jan Plamper (ed.), ''Emotional Turn? Feelings in Russian History and Culture'', Slavic Review 68, no. 2 (2009) * Jan Plamper (ed.), ''Grenzgang in der Geschichte. Wissenschaftskulturen im internationalen Vergleich'', Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 52, no. 10 (2004) * Klaus Heller, Jan Plamper (eds.), ''Personality Cults in Stalinism – Personenkulte im Stalinismus.'' V & R unipress, 2004, . 1970 births Living people 20th-century German historians Brandeis University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni {{Germany-historian-stub