PD Dr. Jan Logemann

Research

The World the Marketers Made: Choice Architects and the Business Origins of Behavioral Economics, 1960-2000” (Principal Investigator)
Collaborative Research Project with Prof. Eli Cook (Haifa University), funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture (funding line zukunft.niedersachen), 2025-2028. The project examines linkages in the development of behavioral economic theory and marketing practices since the 1960s and investigates the economic and social implications of an emerging “choice architecture” in the pre-digital age.
Current Research Project: Selling the "American Way of Death": A History of Funeral Markets and the Economics of Death in Transatlantic Perspective. An economic and cultural history of funeral homes since the 19th century (section at the 53rd Historikertag as a podcast on Deutschlandfunk
Nova, November 21, 2021, in German) Link

Since Dec. 2025: Lecturer Economics / North American Studies, Bonn University
2025 (April — November): Interim Professor Economic and Social History, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
2023 (spring): Visiting Full Professor of American History, University of Mainz
2021 (spring): Visiting Full Professor of American History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2020 (spring): Visiting Full Professor of American History, Universität Kassel
Since 2017: Affiliated Faculty, School of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
2014 — 2025: Lecturer at Institute for economic and social history, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Program Director (Göttingen) Erasmus Mundus MA “Global Markets, Local Creativities” (GLOCAL)
2010 — 2014: Research group director Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980.
2010 — 2014: Research Fellow at German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
2009 — 2010: Fellow in the History of Consumption, GHI Washington
WS 2008: Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
2007 — 2008: Lecturer in History, Pennsylvania State University
2007: Ph.D. in History, Pennsylvania State University
2002: MA in History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
1996 — 2002: Studies in modern history, political sciences and North-American studies at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Freien Universität Berlin, and Pennsylvania State University