Dr. Jan Musekamp is the deputy director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Previously, he was visiting associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania and taught Eastern European History at the European University Viadrina.
In his teaching and research, he focuses on East-Central European cultural and migration history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His main areas of interest are questions of mobility, (forced) migrations, cultural appropriation in Eastern European borderlands, and transnational history.
In his first book, Jan focuses on forced migrations and cultural appropriation in the Polish border city of Szczecin between 1945 and 2005. His second book is "Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands. Mobilities and Migration Along the Prussian Eastern Railroad". It analyzes the impact of the railroad on the development of transnational networks in nineteenth century East Central Europe. His new research project deals with the history of Volhynia’s German speakers as a transnational history of migration and integration.
(Foto: Heide Fest, Europa-Universität Viadrina)
