Professor Jane Caplan

Professor Jane Caplan
Emeritus Fellow
St Antony's Collge
jane.caplan@history.ox.ac.uk

Jane Caplan has worked mainly on the history of Nazi Germany and is currently researching the proof and policing of identity in the Third Reich. She is equally interested in the documentation of individual identity in 19th-century Europe, especially the written and visual marks of identity on and off the body and their status in political and legal discourse.

 

See page on St Antony's College website

Research

​Jane Caplan is involved in the following research projects:

IdentiNet: The Documentation of Individual Identity: Historical and Comparative Perspectives since 1500

Why do I need a passport to travel? Why do I have to have so many passwords online? Why should I be fingerprinted to enter the USA? Should there be national DNA databases? Is my identity safe? Questions like these have multiplied in recent years, especially in the aftermath of the events of 9/11. New ways of identifying people on the move, buying goods and services, and preventing crimes have been developed in the UK as well as globally. Do these protect our rights, threaten our privacy, or make us safe

More information can be found at Professor Caplan's personal webpage: users.ox.ac.uk/~hist0138/

Publications

  • Concentration camps in Nazi Germany

    January 2010
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    Book
    This comprehensive volume offers the first overview of the recent scholarship that has changed the way the camps are studied over the last two decades.
    History

  • Nazi Germany

    July 2008
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    Book
    History
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