• Roofline Research Assistant

Dr Johann Custodis

Since October 2024

Research assistant on the EVZ-funded project ‘2x(Un)Recht? Participatory app development on the consequences of compensation for those convicted by the Nazi justice system’ at the Wolfenbüttel Prison Memorial

2022–2024

Research assistant on the EVZ-funded project ‘“Lifelong Prisoners”?! – Compensation for those convicted by the courts and the individual and societal implications’ at the Wolfenbüttel Prison Memorial

2021–2022

Freelance work as an economic historian and provenance researcher

2018–2020

Researcher into the provenance of Nazi-looted art, London

2015–2018

Senior management role in the private sector

2011–2015

Research fellow on various economic history research projects, including for the European Commission, at the University of Warwick, Department of Economics, and the LSE, Department of Economic History

2011

PhD in Economic History, LSE, Department of Economic History, on the subject of the war economy and prisoner-of-war labour during the Second World War

2007–2011

Lecturer in international and European economic history at the LSE

2006

Master of Science (MSc) in Economic History (Research), London School of Economics (LSE), Department of Economic History

Publications

  • 2016

    • ‘Employing the Enemy: The Economic Exploitation of POWs and Foreign Labour from Occupied Territories by Nazi Germany’, in Jonas Scherner and Eugene N. White (eds.), Paying for Hitler’s War: The Consequences of Nazi Hegemony for Europe, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016
    • L. Chaudary, B. Gutpa, T. Roy, T. Swamy (eds.), A New Economic History of Colonial India, Routledge, Abingdon, 2016 (editorial contribution) 

    2015

    • ‘India and the Great Divergence: An Anglo-Indian Comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871’, *Explorations in Economic History*, vol. 55 (2015), pp. 58–75, with Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta

    2014

    • ‘The enemy on the farm: The economic contribution of German and Italian POW employment in Britain and the British dominions during and after the Second World War’, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, volume 55 (2014), issue 2, pp. 99–128
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