Jan Plamper (1970 – 30 November 2023) was a German professor of history at the

University of Limerick University of Limerick (UL) () is a Public university, public research university institution in Limerick, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Founded in 1972, as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, it became a university in Septemb ...

. His research interests included

Russian history The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' people, Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians. In 882, Prin ...

, the

history of emotions The history of emotions is a field of historical research concerned with human emotion, especially variations among cultures and historical periods in the experience and expression of emotions. Beginning in the 20th century with writers such as Luc ...

, sensory history, and the history of migration.

Biography

After obtaining a B.A. in History at

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in 1992, Plamper did social work for

Memorial A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as home ...

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...

. In 2001 he received his PhD in History at the

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, with a dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Slezkine on

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

personality cult A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, Mudde, Cas and Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2017) ''Populism: A Very Short Introduction''. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 63. is the result of an effort which is made to create an ideali ...

. He subsequently taught at

Tübingen University Tübingen (; ) is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in three of the 90,000 people ...

and from 2008 to 2012 was a Dilthey Fellow of the

Fritz Thyssen Foundation The Fritz Thyssen Foundation () is a private nonprofit foundation in Germany, created on 7 July 1959 by Amélie Thyssen and Anita Gräfin Zichy-Thyssen and named in memory of prominent iron and steel manufacturer August Thyssen and his son Fritz, ...

at Ute Frevert's ''Center for the History of Emotions'',

Max Planck Institute for Human Development The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung) (MPIB) is a social science research organization. Located in Berlin, it is one of over 80 institutions run by the Max Planck Society. It was initiated i ...

, in

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. From 2012 to 2021 he was a professor of history at

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths College, University of London, is a constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by ...

, where he initiated the MA programmes in Black British and Queer history. Plamper held fellowships at ''Historisches Kolleg'' in Munich,

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin () is an interdisciplinary institute founded in 1981 in Grunewald, Berlin, Germany, dedicated to research projects in the natural and social sciences. It is modeled after the original IAS in Princeto ...

, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, and Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. Plamper died of cancer on 30 November 2023, at the age of 53.Abschied von Prof. Jan Plamper (1970–2023)

Selected works

Monographs

*''Das neue Wir. Warum Migration dazugehört: Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen''. S. Fischer, 2019, , translated into English as ''We Are All Migrants: A Multicultural History of Germany''. Cambridge University Press, 2023, *''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, .

References

1970 births 2023 deaths 20th-century German historians Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London Academics of the University of Limerick Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Brandeis University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni {{Germany-historian-stub