Dr. F. (Frank) Schipper
- Lecturer
- Economic History
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2770 |
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| 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).
2011
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Schot, J.W. & Schipper, F. (2011)
Experts and European Transport Integration 1945-1958. Journal of European Public Policy, 18 (2), pp. 274-293.
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Schipper, F. & Schot, J.W. (2011)
Infrastructural Europeanism, or the project of building Europe on infrastructures. History and Technology, 27 (3), pp. 245-264.
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Schipper, F. (2011)
[Bespreking van: De blijde intrede van de automobiel in België]. In: Cahiers d'histoire du temps présent, 23
(Book review)
2010
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Schipper, F. (2010)
Mobilizing Europe's Capital. In: Badenoch, A.W. & Fickers, A. (Eds.), Materialising Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe, pp. 178-181. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
(Part of book or chapter of book) -
Schipper, F. & Lagendijk, V.C. & Anastasiadou, E. (2010)
New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road and Electricity in the League of Nations’ Organisation for Communications and Transit. In: Badenoch, A.W. & Fickers, A. (Eds.), Materialising Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe, pp. 113-143. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
(Part of book or chapter of book) -
Schipper, F. (2010)
[Bespreking van: Mobile Cities. Dynamiken weltweiter Stadt- und Verkehrsentwicklung]. In: Geschichte.Transnational
(Book review)
2009
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Schipper, F. (2009)
European integration and infrastructures since the 19th century. In Auger, J.-F., Bouma, J.J., Künneke, R. (Eds.) Internationalization of Infrastructures, Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on the Economics of Infrastructures (pp. 37-60). Delft: Delft University of Technology.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Gardon, S. & Passalacqua, A. & Schipper, F. (2009)
Pour une Histoire des Circulations sur la Circulation. Métropoles, 2009 (6), pp. 1-17.
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Schipper, F. (2009)
Unravelling Hieroglyphs: Urban traffic signs and the League of Nations. Métropoles, 2009 (6), pp. 65-100.
(Article)
2008
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Schipper, F. (2008)
De infrastructuur doet de grens vervagen. HubHolland Magazine 1, no.1, pp. 23-25.
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine) -
Schipper, F. (2008)
Driving Europe: Building Europe on roads in the twentieth century. Eindhoven University of Technology(Amsterdam, Aksant) J.W. Schot & G.P.A. Mom.
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Schipper, F. & Van der Vleuten, E.B.A. (2008)
Trans-European Network Development and Governance in Historical Perspective. Network Industries Quarterly 10, no.3, pp. 5-7.
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
2007
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Schipper, F. (2007)
Changing the Face of Europe: European Road Mobility during the Marshall Plan Years. The Journal of Transport History, 28 (2), pp. 211-228.
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Van der Vleuten, E.B.A. & Anastasiadou, E. & Lagendijk, V.C. & Schipper, F. (2007)
Europe’s System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks. Contemporary European History, 16 (3), pp. 321-347.
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Schipper, F. (2007)
The Road to Europe: European Integration, Road Networks and the European Citizen. Proceedings 23rd World Road Congress 17-21 September 2007Paris: PIARC.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2006
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Schipper, F. (2006)
Conference report, Second Plenary Conference of the Tensions of Europe Network, Lappeenranta, Finland, 24-28 May 2006. Technology and culture, 47 (4), pp. 799-802.
(Article)
2005
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Schipper, F. (2005)
[Bespreking van: Vom nationalen zum globalen Wettbewerb: Die deutsche und amerikanische Reifenindustrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert]. In: Geschichte.Transnational
(Book review)