Education
In 2001 he received his Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Slezkine on Stalin’s personality cult.
In 2001 he received his Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation under the supervision of Yuri Slezkine on Stalin’s personality cult.
His research interests include Russian history and the history of emotions. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in History at Brandeis University in 1992, Plamper did social work for Memorial in Saint St. Petersburg. He subsequently taught at Tübingen University and from 2008-2012 was a Dilthey Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at Ute Frevert"s Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, in Berlin.
Plamper has also held fellowships at Historisches Kolleg in Munich and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
(Stalin CultPlamper, Jan)