Dr. Jan Musekamp

Jan Musekamp is the deputy director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. From 2018 to 2024, he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he taught at Viadrina University, was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis/Missouri, and a DAAD visiting assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

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. In his second book (Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands: Mobilities and Migration along the Prussian Eastern Railroad), he analyzes the railroad's impact on the development of international 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.