Dr. F. (Frank) Schipper

Position:
  • Lecturer
Expertise:
  • Economic History


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2770
E-Mail: f.schipper@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 1.24b


Spreekuur

Na afspraak / by appointment

Curriculum vitae

Frank Schipper (1976) is a lecturer in economic history at the Institute for History of Leiden University and an an assistant professor at the School of Innovation Sciences of Eindhoven University of Technology. His current research and teaching concern the history of infrastructures and mobility, and European integration. He writes columns for the website Next Generation Infrastructures on a wide range of infrastructure-related topics.

In September 2008 Frank defended his thesis Driving Europe: Building Europe on Roads in the Twentieth Century. The book is available at Aksant Academic Publishers (click here). His PhD project brought him to archives located in Brussels, Florence, Geneva, Paris, and several archives in the United States. He holds two MA degrees from Leiden University, one in Political Science with a specialization in comparative politics, the other in Latin American Studies with a specialization in history. For the latter he conducted research in the Archivo Nacional de Chille in Santiago de Chile and the Museo Regional de Atacama in Copiapó (Chile).

Frank is a member of the Tensions of Europe Network, the Society for the History of Technology and the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. He also participates in the research program Globalisation, technological change and economic development of the Dutch-Flemish N.W. Posthumus Institute for economic and social history.

Key publications

Frank Schipper, Vincent Lagendijk, and Irene Anastasiadou, "New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road and Electricity in the League of Nations’ Organisation for Communications and Transit," in Europe Materializing? Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe, ed. Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers (London: Palgrave, 2010).

Johan Schot, and Frank Schipper, "Experts and European Transport Integration, 1945-1958," in Journal of European Public Policy (forthcoming February 2011) (awarded the Dr. Cornelius Lely prize on mobility history and policy in 2009).

Frank Schipper, Driving Europe: Building Europe on Roads in the Twentieth Century (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2008).

Last Modified: 07-01-2011