Department of History

Jan Musekamp

  • Visiting Associate Professor

Fields

History of Europe
History of Eastern Europe
Transnational History
Migration History

Teaching

1046 Nationalism
1108 Comparative European History
1001 Introductory Seminar
1132 Germany in the Cold War
2741 Graduate Migration and Challenges of Mobility and Belonging

HIST 1000: Capstone Course, Capstone Seminar European History 

 

Education & Training

  • Dr. phil. (Ph.D. equivalent), European University Viadrina, 2010

Representative Publications

Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands: Mobilities and Migration along the Prussian Eastern Railroad (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming March 2024).

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).

“Eydtkuhnen and Verzhbolovo: Big History and Local Experiences: Migration and Identity in a European Borderland,” in Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space, eds. Tabea Linhard and Timothy Parsons (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), 55-83.

Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age. Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia, eds. Anika Walke, Jan Musekamp, and Nicole Svobodny (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. 352).

“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.

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

“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.

Research Interests

Dr. Musekamp's second book, "Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands: Mobility and Migration along the Prussian Eastern Railroad" investigates the dichotomy between a globalizing world and tighter border control in the nineteenth century. It analyzes the impact of infrastructures on the development of international networks. The book demonstrates how an inner-Prussian railroad line turned into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism.

Professor Musekamp's 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.