Jan Musekamp

Jan Musekamp is a visiting associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania (Department of History and European Studies Center). Previously, he taught Eastern European History at the European University Viadrina/Germany and was a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis/Missouri.

In his teaching and research, he focuses on Eastern 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 coming out with Indiana University Press in March 2024. In "Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands. Mobilities and Migration along the Prussian Eastern Railroad," Dr. Musekamp analyzes the impact of the railroad on the development of international networks in nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe – amidst growing tensions between globalization and nationalism.

His new research project focuses on the impact of the "global color line" on the migration of Ukraine's German speakers to Brazil, Canada, Germany, and within the Russian Empire.