Dr. Jan Musekamp

Dr. Jan Musekamp teaches Eastern European History at the European University Viadrina and is a non-resident fellow with International and Area Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. In his doctoral thesis (2008: European University Viadrina, PhD equivalent, summa cum laude)  he focuses on forced migrations and cultural appropriation in the Polish border city of Szczecin between 1945 and 2005. In his diploma thesis (2002: European University Viadrina, M.A. equivalent) Jan Musekamp did extensive research on forced migrations in Brno/Czech Republic between 1938 and 1948. He is currently working on his second book:

A Cultural History of Transnational Mobility in East Central Europe.
How the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad Connected Paris to St. Petersburg and Kovno to New York

Jan Musekamp has studied abroad in Toruń/Poland and in Brno/Czech Republic and has tought undergraduate and graduate courses in Germany, Poland, and the United States.

Curriculum Vitae with publications

Nineteenth and twentieth century, Polish and Czechoslovak cultural history; ethnic cleansing in twentieth century Europe; cultural appropriation in Polish and Czech border regions;  economic and cultural changes through the transport revolution; Polish-German and Czech-German entangled history; opposition and transformation in East Central Europe.

Jan Musekamp contributes to the following research networks:

Migration, Identity, and State, Washington University in St. Louis

Phantom Borders in East Central Europe, Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin

Tensions of Europe Network

• Zwischen Stettin und Szczecin. Metamorphosen einer Stadt von 1945 bis 2005 [From Stettin to Szczecin. Metamorphoses of a City, 1945-2005], (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, pp. 423).
  Polish edition: Między Stettinem a Szczecinem. Metamorfozy miasta od 1945 do 2005 (Poznań: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje, 2013, pp. 466).

• "DX-Nr. 7150 und der Waffenstillstand im Äther" [DX No. 7150 and the Cease-Fire on Airwaves], in: Stille Revolutionen: Die Neuformierung der Welt seit 1989, eds. Katharina Kucher, Gregor Thum and Sören Urbansky, forthcoming Frankfurt am Main and New York 2013 (Campus-Verlag), 187-196.

• "The Royal Prussian Eastern Railway (Ostbahn) and its Importance for East-West Transportation," in: Eastern European Railways in Transition. 19th to 21st Centuries, eds. Ralf Roth and Henry Jacolin (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2013), 117-127.

• "Kolej Wschodnia na przestrzeni dziejów. Podróż z Berlina do Królewca,"[The Eastern Railroads in History. Traveling from Berlin to Königsberg], Zeszyty naukowe. Nowa Marchia – prowincja zapomniana – wspólne korzenie no. 9 (2011): 88-103.

• "Eisenbahn und Grenzüberschreitung. Die Königlich Preußische Ostbahn und ihre Bedeutung für die Kontakte zwischen Preußen und dem Russländischen Reich 1848-1914. Umrisse eines Forschungsprojekts," [Railroads and Border Crossing. The Royal Prussian Eastern Railroads and its Importance for Contacts between Prussia and the Russian Empire, 1848-1914], Berichte und Forschungen. Jahrbuch des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa 18 (2010): 241-247.

• "Szczecin`s Identity after 1989: A Local Turn," in Cities after the Fall of Communism. Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity, eds. John J. Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis, and Blair A. Ruble (Baltimore and Washington: John Hopkins University Press, 2009), 305-334.

• "Der Zentralfriedhof Stettin. Spiegelbild des Gedächtnisses einer Stadt,"[The Central Cemetery of Szczecin. Reflection of a City's Memory], in Partner oder Kontrahenten? Deutsch-polnische Nachbarschaft im Jahrhundert der Diktaturen, eds. Mike Schmeitzner and Katarzyna Stokłosa (Berlin: LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, 2008), 93-104.

• [co-author with Katja Bernhardt], "1945-ein Bruch? Stadtplaner in Stettin und Szczecin," [1945-a Caesura? Urban Planner in Stettin and Szczecin], Nordost-Archiv. Zeitschrift für Regionalgeschichte, N.F. 15 (2006): 38-59.

• "Brno/Brünn 1938-1948. Eine Stadt in einem Jahrzehnt erzwungener Wanderungen," [Brno/Brünn 1938-1948. A City in Times of Forced Migrations], Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 53 (2004): 1-45.

Curriculum Vitae with publications

• Gerald D. Feldman Research and Travel Grant, Max Weber Foundation to conduct research in archives in Poland, France and Russia (2013-2014)

• Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (Volkswagen Foundation) at Washington University in Saint Louis (2012-2013)

• DAAD Visiting Assistant Professorship at The University of Texas at Austin (2011)

• Award of the Ambassador of Poland to Germany for best German Dissertation on Poland (2008)

• Research Grant by ZEIT-Foundation Hamburg/Germany (2003-2006)

• Special Research Grant of the Viadrina Graduate Center (2004)

• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

• Verband der Osteuropahistorikerinnen und -historiker e.V.
  (Association of Historians in Eastern European History, VOH)

• International Association for Railway History (Administration Board)

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde e.V.
  (German Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, DGO)

• Gemeinschaft für studentischen Austausch in Mittel- und Osteuropa
  (Association for Students' Exchange in Central and Eastern Europe, GFPS e.V.)

• Institute for Applied History at Frankfurt (Oder)
  (Institut für angewandte Geschichte - Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft im Dialog e.V.)