Jan C. Jansen

Jan C. Jansen is a professor of global history at the University of Duisburg-Essen and principal investigator of the research project 'Atlantic Exiles: Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1770s-1820s' funded by the European Research Council. A historian of Europe's entanglements with the world since the late eighteenth century and of decolonization, he is coeditor of Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France (2016), a systematic comparison of two of the largest involuntary population movements to post-1945 Europe.