Jan Arend

Jan Arend is a researcher at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tübingen, specializing in Eastern European history. He currently holds a Lehrstuhlvertretung (Chair Substitution) for the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe (W3) at LMU Munich (Wintersemester 2024/2025), following a similar role in Wintersemester 2023/2024. His habilitation (2023) explores stress and therapeutic discourses in socialist/post-socialist Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic (1960–2010). He leads a DFG-funded project on similar themes.

• Education: Magister Artium (2010) from LMU Munich; studies in history, Osteuropastudien, Slavistics, and political science (Basel, Munich, Regensburg, 2004–2010)

His research focuses on Transfer- und Verflechtungsgeschichte (entanglement history), Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (history of knowledge), Imperial- and Emotionsgeschichte, and memory cultures. He has published monographs on Soviet soil science and Jewish life narratives in the USSR.

Recent publications (2017–2025) span topics like East-West scientific collaboration, postsocialist productivity practices, emotional discourses, and therapeutic governance. His editorial work includes special issues on emotion histories and science policy.

Scientific Awards
• Dissertations-Abschlussstipendium der Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien (LMU München/Regensburg, 2015)
• Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (2009–2010)
• DAAD-Stipendium (2009–2010)

Arend has taught courses on Jewish history in the Russian Empire, Czech multiethnicity, post-socialist transformations, and emotion theories at LMU and Tübingen. His DFG project examines stress discourses under socialism and in post-Soviet contexts.