Mobility
Infrastructure, networks and everyday movement as forces of historical change.
Historian · Author · Cultural scholar
Dr. Jan Musekamp
Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute Warsaw
Jan Musekamp studies the cultural and migration history of East Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular attention to mobility, borderlands and transnational connections.
●He has served as Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute Warsaw since November 2024.
Since 2024Deputy Director · GHI Warsaw
2018–2024Associate Professor · University of Pittsburgh
2017Habilitation · European University Viadrina
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Research areas
Migration
Voluntary and forced migration in their social and political contexts.
Borderlands
Cultural appropriation, local identities and transnational entanglements.
East Central Europe
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural history beyond national frames.
Current research project
Global Color Lines · 1860–1950
German speakers from Ukraine on the move
The current project traces global migrations from Volhynia and encounters with migration and settlement regimes.
Baltic region · Brazil · Canada · Germany · Poland · Siberia
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Selected publications
2026 · Journal article
Mobility, Migration and Networks in Historiographical Research: How Sources Restore Agency to ‘Ordinary People’
An open-access forum on sources, methods and historical agency.
2024 · Monograph
Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands: Mobilities and Migration along the Prussian Eastern Railroad
A transnational history of the Prussian Eastern Railroad, its spaces, networks and migrations.
2024 · Edited volume
Russian Germans on Four Continents: Histories of a Global Diaspora
An interdisciplinary volume on the global history of the Russian German diaspora.
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