12 Facts About Jane Caplan

Jane Caplan is an academic and historian specialising in Nazi Germany and the history of the documentation of individual identity.

Jane Caplan is currently Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, Visiting Professor of History at Gresham College and Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Jane Caplan relocated to the United States, where she became visiting assistant professor at Columbia University in New York.

Jane Caplan then moved to Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, to become the Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor of European History, a position she held until 2004.

Jane Caplan is currently a visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London.

In 2011, Jane Caplan became visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Jane Caplan is currently working on the administration of identification in Nazi Germany, especially civil registration.

Jane Caplan has been a member of many editorial boards.

Jane Caplan has been Editor of History Workshop Journal and sat on the editorial board for American Historical Review, German History and Journal of Modern History.

In 2008, Jane Caplan set up IdentiNet with Dr Edward Higgs from University of Essex.

Jane Caplan unexpectedly found herself thrust into the public spotlight due to her insightful commentary on the highly controversial topic of privatizing the Royal Mail.

Unfazed by the unexpected encounter, Jane Caplan passionately delved into an impromptu rant, eloquently articulating her views and raising critical points.