Jan Plamper

Jan Plamper (1970 – 30 November 2023) was a German professor of history at the University of Limerick. His research interests included Russian history, the history of emotions, sensory history, and the history of migration.

Jan Plamper
Plamper at the launch of We Are All Migrants at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2019
Born	(1970-03-23)March 23, 1970 Laichingen, West Germany
Died	November 30, 2023(2023-11-30) (aged 53) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Historian
Title	Professor
Academic background
Education	Brandeis University
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Yuri Slezkine
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	History of the 20th century History of the 19th century
Institutions	University of Tübingen Max Planck Institute for Human Development Goldsmiths, University of London Berlin Institute for Advanced Study University of Limerick
Main interests	History of emotions and the senses History of migration Russian History
Notable works	The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power The History of Emotions: An Introduction

Biography

After obtaining a B.A. in History at Brandeis University in 1992, Plamper did social work for Memorial in St. Petersburg.

In 2001 he received his PhD 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 Tübingen University and from 2008 to 2012 was a Dilthey Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at Ute Frevert's Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, in Berlin. From 2012 to 2021 he was a professor of history at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he initiated the MA programmes in Black British and Queer history. Plamper held fellowships at Historisches Kolleg in Munich, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, and Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald.

Plamper died of cancer on 30 November 2023, at the age of 53.

Selected works

Monographs

• Das neue Wir. Warum Migration dazugehört: Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen. S. Fischer, 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397283-2, translated into English as We Are All Migrants: A Multicultural History of Germany. Cambridge University Press, 2023, ISBN 978-1-00-924229-5
• The History of Emotions: An Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-966833-5.
• The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power. Yale University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-16952-2.

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, ISBN 978-5-4469-0480-8.
• Jan Plamper, Benjamin Lazier (eds.), Fear: Across the Disciplines, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8229-6220-5.
• 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, ISBN 978-5-86793-785-0.
• 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, ISBN 3-89971-191-2.