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GHI Staff Research Fellows Logemann
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Dr. Jan Logemann
Fellow in the History of Consumption German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington DC 20009 U.S.A. Phone +1.202.387.3355  email Biographical Summary Jan Logemann is Fellow in the History of Consumption at the GHI. 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. His research focuses on transatlantic comparisons and the development of mass consumer societies in the twentieth century. He is currently revising his dissertation "Shaping Affluent Societies: Divergent Paths to a Mass Consumer Society in West Germany and the United States during the Postwar Boom Era" for publication. His article "Different Paths to Mass Consumption: Consumer Credit in the United States and West Germany during the 1950s and '60s" appeared in the Journal of Social History in the summer of 2008 and his essay "Einkaufsparadies und 'Gute Stube': Fussgängerzonen in Westdeutschen Innenstädten der 1950er bis 1970er Jahre" appeared in Adelheid v. Saldern (ed.), Stadt und Kommunikation in bundesrepublikanischen Umbruchszeiten (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2006). His next research project will look at the relationship between retailers, consumer and urban communities in the twentieth century. Main Areas of Interest
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