Prof.dr. R.T. (Richard) Griffiths

Position:
  • Professor of Social and Economic History


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2738
E-Mail: r.t.griffiths@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 2.09

Spreekuur / Hours

Na afspraak / by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Griffiths (b. 1948) graduated summa cum laude in Economic History and Russian Studies at the University College of Swansea (1970) and obtained his PhD in history from the University of Cambridge (1977) for his thesis entitled Industrial Retardation in the Netherlands, 1830-1850. He was a university lecturer in European Studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1973-1979) before being appointed to the chair of Economic and Social History at the Free University Amsterdam(1980-1987). He was a founder member of the Posthumus Institute, the Dutch Post-Graduate Centre for Social and Economic History (1987). He was then appointed to the chair of Contemporary History at the European University Institute, Florence, where he also acted as director of the Institute's permanent research project into the history of European integration (1987-1995). In 1995 he returned to the Netherlands at his present post as professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Leiden. He coordinates the Art Faculty's PraktijkStudies program and, within that framework, its European Union Studies courses. He also lectures regularly on MA courses at Bilgi University (Istanbul) and Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok).

He has been visiting professor at Catholic University of Leuven (1987), the University of Aalborg (1996) and Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (1997, 1998) and scholar in Residence at the Roosevelt Study Centre, Middelburg (1991).

Publications

See Tab 'Published work'

PhD Supervision

- Auke van der Woud, Het lege land. De ruimtelijke orde van Nederland, 1798-1848. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, November 1987. Second Supervisor.

- Jan van der Harst, European Union and Atlantic Partnership: Political, Military and Economic Aspects of Dutch Defence, 1948-1954, and the Impact of the European Defence Community. EUI, Florence, February 1988. Co-Supervisor.

- Erik Bloemen, Scientific Management in Nederland 1900-1930. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, June 1988. Co-Supervisor.

- Hein Klemann, Tussen Reich en Empire. De economische betrekkingen van Nederland met zijn belangrijkste handelspartners: Duitsland, Groot-Brittanië en België en de Nederlandse handelspolitiek, 1929-1936. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, June 1990. First Supervisor.

- Wendy Asbeek Brusse, West European Tariff Plans, 1947-1957. From Study Group to Common Market. EUI, Florence, May 1991. First Supervisor.

- Jan Kok, By Forbidden Ways. The background to illegitimate births in North Holland, 1812-1914. (Dutch original) Free University, Amsterdam, November 1991. First Supervisor.

- Giuliana Laschi, L'Italie e il processo di integrazione europea: il caso dell'agricoltura, 1947-1958. EUI, Florence, November 1992. First Supervisor.

- Fernando Guirao, Spain and European Cooperation, 1945-1955. A case study in Spanish Foreign Economic Policy. EUI, Florence, March 1993. First Supervisor.

- Jaap Barendrecht, The Dutch Monetary Purge. The monetary consequences of the German occupation and their redress after liberation, 1940-1952. Free University, Amsterdam, June 1993. First Supervisor.

- Jean-Pierre Dormois, Machines or Men? A Study of the Differences in Productivity Between France and the UK on the eve of World War I. (French Original) EUI, Florence, January 1994. Co-Supervisor.

- Alberto Schram, The Impact of Railways: Growth and development in the Northern Italian economy, 1856-1884, EUI, Florence, November 1994. Co-Supervisor.

- Francesca Fauri, Negotiating for Industrialisation: Italy's Trade Strategy and Industrial Expansion in the Context of Attempts to further European Integration. 1945-1958. EUI, Florence, December 1994, First Supervisor.

- Thomas Rhenish, Die deutsche Industrie und die Gründung der europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft. EUI, Florence, December 1994, First Supervisor.

- Mikael af Malmborg, Den ståndaktiga Nationalstaten. Sverige och den västeuropeiska Integrationen, 1945-1959 University of Lund, January 1995, Co-Supervisor.

- Lars Andersen, Kommunalskattefrågeb under mellankrigstiden. Skatterättvisa i och mellan Kommuner. University of Lund, March 1995, Co-Supervisor.

- Monika Dickhaus, Zwischen Europe und der Welt: Die internationale Währungspolitik der deutschen Zentralnbank, 1948-1958. EUI, Florence, March 1995, Co- Supervisor.

- Szawomir Tokarski, Ethnic Conflict and Economic Development: Jews in Galician Agriculture, 1868-1914 EUI, Florence, May 1995, First Supervisor.

- Peter Lagrou, Heroes, Martyrs and victims. A Social History of the Memory of World War II in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, 1945-1965. KU Leuven, September 1996, Co-Supervisor.

- Hubert Zimmermann, The German Defence contribution in European and US relations in the 1950s and 1960s. EUI, Florence, February 1997. First Supervisor.

- Ynze Alkema, Searching for a new Relationship? Trade negotiations and the Changing European-American relationship, 1958-1967. EUI, Florence, March 1997. First Supervisor.

- Salvador Estapé Triay, The Dynamics of the Firm in a Changing Environment. A case Study of Ford and the Spanish Motor Industry in Historical Perspective 1900-1990. EUI Florence, January 1998, First Supervisor.

- Carlo Spagnolo, The Marshall Plan and the Stabilization of Western Europe. Economic Reconstruction policy-making in France, Germany and Italy, 1945-1951. EUI, Florence, 5/6 May 1998, First Supervisor.

- Bent Boel, The European Productivity Agency. Politics of Productivity and Transatlantic Relations, 1953-1961. University of Copenhagen, September 1998, Co-Supervisor.

- Maurice Fitzgerald, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the European Community, 1954-1963. EUI, Florence, November 1999, First Supervisor.

- Sjaak van der Velden, Stakingen in Nederland.Arbeiderstrijd 1830-1995. Leiden 2000, First Supervisor.

- Singgih Tri Sulistiyono, The Java Sea Network: Pattern in development of interregional shipping and trade in the process of economic integration in Indonesia, Leiden, February 2003, First Supervisor

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