Jan Claas Behrends

Historian

Jan C. Behrends is a professor of history at the European University Viadrina, in Frankfurt on Oder. and a research associate at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. He studied history, literature, education and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and holds a doctorate in history from Potsdam University. He has been a research fellow and lecturer of East European and modern history at, among others, the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, Bielefeld University, the Herder-Institute in Marburg, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.