Jan L. Logemann

Jan Logemann teaches social and economic history at the University of Goettingen. From 2010 to 2014 he was Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, and project coordinator of "Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States" (www.transatlanticperspectives.org). He studied modern German and U.S. history at Pennsylvania State University and at Humboldt University in Berlin as well as at the Free University's John-F.-Kennedy Institute. Contact: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/482073.html

His research focuses on transatlantic comparisons and the development of mass consumer societies in the twentieth century. His publications include "Trams or Tailfins: Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States" (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and the edited volume "The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture" (Palgrave, 2012). He has published peer reviewed journal articles in Business History Review, Enterprises et Histoire, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of Social History, and National Identities.

Most recent publications include Engineered to Sell: European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Culture (Chicago U Press, 2019) and the edited volume Consumer Engineering, 1920s-1970s (Palgrave 2019). He is currently working on a transatlantic study of the funeral business since the late 19th century.