PD Dr. Jan Logemann

"Final Frontier of the Market? Funerary Businesses between Profits and Taboo since the 19th Century"

"The World the Marketers Made: Choice Architects and the Business Origins of Behavioral Economics, 1960-2000" (with Eli Cook, Haifa)

2019: Habilitation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

2007: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University

2001: M.A. History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2014 – 2025: Privatdozent, Lecturer in Economic History & Program Director “Global Markets, Local Creativities (GLOCAL),” University of Göttingen 

2009 – 2014: Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington, D.C.

2008: Visiting Assistant Professor, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

2007 – 2008: Lecturer in History, Pennsylvania State University

2025: Interim Professor for Economic History, Universitity of Göttingen

2023: Visiting Professor for American History, Obama-Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (summer semester)

2021: Visiting Professor for North-American History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (summer semester)

2020: Visiting Professor for History of Great Britain and North America, Universitity of Kassel (summer semester)

2017 – 2025: Visiting Faculty for “Global Markets, Local Creativities (GLOCAL)”, University of Glasgow

Monographs

Trams or Tailfins: Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States. U of Chicago P, 2012.

Engineered to Sell: European Immigrants and the Making of Consumer Capitalism. U of Chicago P, 2019.

with Reinhild Kreis. Konsumgeschichte. De Gruyter, 2022 (= Series „Seminar Geschichte“).

Edited Collections and Anthologies

with Stefanie Middendorf and Laura Rischbieter. Schulden Machen. Praktiken der Staatsverschuldung im langen 20. Jahrhundert. Campus, 2023.

with Christian Kleinschmidt. Konsum im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. De Gruyter, 2020.

with Gary Cross and Ingo Köhler. Consumer Engineering: Marketing between Expert Planning and Consumer Responsiveness, 1920s-1970s. Palgrave, 2019.

with Hartmut Berghoff and Felix Römer. Consumption on the Home Front During the Second World War: A Transnational Perspective. Oxford UP, 2017.

with Mary Nolan. More Atlantic Crossings? European Voices and the Postwar Atlantic Community. GHI, 2014 (= GHI Bulletin Supplement 10).

with Donna Gabaccia and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. Europe, Migration and Identity: Connecting Migration Experiences and Europeanness. Routledge, 2014. 

The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture. Palgrave, 2012.

Journal Articles

"Chandlerian Growth in a 'Taboo Market'? The American Deathcare Industry since the Early 20th Century." Business History (published online 2025).

"Das Geschäft mit den Toten: Bestattungen zwischen Markt und Moral im langen 20. Jahrhundert." Historische Anthropologie, vol. 30, 2022, pp. 350-76.

"‚Auf Zeit‘ gekauft: Konsumfinanzierung und Zeitvorstellungen in Deutschland und den USA seit den 1890er Jahren." Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, vol. 108, 2021, pp. 79-109.

with Reinhild Kreis. "‘Mixed Views‘: Konstruktion und Kanäle deutsch-amerikanischer Wahrnehmungen seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg." Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, vol. 68, 2020, pp. 642-56. 

"Consumer Modernity as Cultural Translation. European Émigrés and Knowledge Transfers in Mid-Century Design and Marketing." Geschichte und Gesellschaft, vol. 43, 2017, pp. 413-37. 

"Transatlantische Karrieren und transnationale Leben: zum Verhältnis von Migrantenbiographien und transnationaler Geschichte." BIOS, vol. 28, 2015, pp. 1-23.

"Europe – Migration – Identity: Connections between Migration Experiences and Europeanness." National Identities, vol. 15, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1-8.

"Remembering ‘Aunt Emma’: Small Retailing between Nostalgia and a Conflicted Past." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, vol. 5, no. 2, 2013, pp. 151-71.

"Is It in the Interest of the Consumer to Pay Taxes? Transatlantic Differences in Postwar Approaches to Public Consumption." Journal of Consumer Culture, vol. 11, 2011, pp. 339-65. 

"Americanization through Credit?  A Transnational and Comparative History of Consumer Credit in Germany, 1860s - 1960s." Business History Review, vol. 85, no. 3, 2011, pp. 529-50.

with Uwe Spiekermann. "The Myth of a Bygone Cash Economy: Consumer Lending in Germany from the Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century." Enterprises et Histoire, vol. 59, 2010, pp. 12-27.

"Different Paths to Mass Consumption: Consumer Credit in the United States and West Germany during the 1950s and ‘60s." Journal of Social History, vol. 41, 2008, 525-59.

Book Chapters

"Schuldenuhren: Staatsschulden sichtbar machen.“ Schulden Machen, edited by Logemann / Middendorf / Rischbieter, Campus, 2023, pp. 173-87. 

"Governance and the State: Regulating “Modern” Shopping, 1920s to Present." Cultural History of Shopping, 1920-present, edited by Vicki Howard, Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 173-91.

"Managing Consumer Capitalism: Artists, Engineers and Psychologists as New Marketing Experts in Interwar Germany." Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany, edited by Moritz Föllmer and Pamela Swett, Cambridge UP, 2022, pp. 208-31.  

"Measuring and Managing Expectations: Consumer Confidence as an Economic Indicator, 1920s-1970s." Futures Past. Economic Forecasting in the 20th and 21st Century, edited by U. Fritsche, L. Lenel and R. Köster, Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 43-74.

"Europabewusstsein in Exil und Remigration, 1930er -1950er." Themenportal Europäische Geschichte, 2020, <www.europa.clio-online.de/essay/id/fdae-29053>.

"European Émigrés and American Commercial Design: Transatlantic Transfers in Midcentury Marketing." A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textiles, Wallpapers and Containers & Packaging, 1951-1954, edited by Margaret Re, U of Baltimore P, 2019, pp. 51-66.

"Der Atlantik als Einbahnstraße? Wechselseitige Transfers durch Emigranten und Rückkehrer um die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts." Feinde, Freunde, Fremde? Deutsche Perspektiven auf die USA, edited by Volker Benkert, Nomos, 2018, pp. 159-79.

"From Wartime Research to Post-War Affluence: European Émigrés and the Engineering of American Wartime Consumption." Consumption on the Home Front During the Second World War: A Transnational Perspective, edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Jan Logemann and Felix Römer, Oxford UP, 2017, pp. 279-99.

with Ingo Köhler. "Marketing History – Germany." Routledge Companion to Marketing Research, edited by Brian Jones and Mark Tadajewski, Routledge, 2016, pp. 371-88.

"Was bleibt von Wilhelm Kaisens Amerika? Zur Geschichte der transatlantischen Beziehungen aus bremischer Perspektive." Bremisches Jahrbuch 94, 2015, pp. 204-24.

"Down and Out Downtown? Transatlantische Unterschiede in der Entwicklung urbaner Einkaufsräume, 1945-2010." Die vielen Gesichter des Konsums, 1850-2000 , edited by Michael Prinz. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015, pp. 231-49.

"European Imports? European Immigrants and the Transformation of American Consumer Culture from the 1920s to the 1960s." GHI Bulletin 52, 2013, pp. 113-33. 

"From Cradle to Bankruptcy? Credit Access and the American Welfare State." The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture, Edited Volume, edited by Jan Logemann, Palgrave, 2012, pp. 201-22.

"Hans Knoll." Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, edited by Daniel Wadhwani, vol. 5, German Historical Institute. Last modified 23 July 2012. http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=63 

"Beyond Self-Service: The Limits of ‘Americanization’ in Post-war West-German Retailing in Comparative Perspective." Transformation of Retailing in Europe after 1945, edited by Lydia Nembach and Ralf Jessen, Ashgate, 2012, pp. 87-100.

"Consumption and Space: Inner-City Pedestrian Malls and the Consequences of Changing Consumer Geographies." Decoding Modern Consumer Societies, edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann, Palgrave, 2012, pp. 149-70.  

with Andreas Joch, Corinna Ludwig, Ashley Narayan and Barbara Reiterer. "Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980." GHI Bulletin 48, 2011, pp. 85-99.

"Where to Shop? The Geography of Consumption in the Twentieth Century Atlantic World." GHI Bulletin 45, 2009, pp. 55-68. 

"Einkaufsparadies und ‘Gute Stube’: Fußgängerzonen in Westdeutschen Innenstädten der 1950er bis 1970er Jahre." Stadt und Kommunikation in bundesrepublikanischen Umbruchszeiten, edited by Adelheid v. Saldern, Franz Steiner, 2006, pp. 103-22.

Other Publications, Blogs and Podcasts

with Felix Krämer. "Racial Capitalism: Konzeptionelle und historische Perspektiven." Vergangenheitsformen. Der Redaktionspodcast von H-Soz-Kult, Moderation Claudia Prinz, June 2023, https://www.hsozkult.de/podcast.

Walls, Laws and Migrations – Past and Present, Göttingen, June 2021. [Conference Report H-Soz-Kult].

"European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism." Migrant Knowledge, 29 April 2020, https://migrantknowledge.org/2020/04/29/european-emigres-transatlantic-circulation-of-knowledge/.

"Consumer Engineering and the Rise of Marketing Knowledge, 1920s–1970s." in: History of Knowledge, 27 June 2019, https://historyofknowledge.net/.