Jan Plamper

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

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.