Jan Lucassen
Fellow
- E-mail: lucasjan@xs4all.nl
- Department: Research
Jan Lucassen (1947) studied history at Leiden University (BA 1970, MA 1973 in social and economic history, minors in sociology / development economics, and agricultural history at Wageningen University) and Utrecht University (PhD 1984). He taught history at a teacher training college in The Hague (1972-1974) and at the Universities of Utrecht (1972-1984, 1985-1988), Hull (GB, 1984-1985), and the Free University of Amsterdam (1990-2012).
In 1988 he joined the IISH where until ultimo 2000 he acted as Research Director, and since he is Senior Research Fellow and from 2012 Honorary Fellow.
From 1990 until his mandatory retirement in 2012 he was professor of 'international and comparative social history' at the Free University in Amsterdam. Between 1993 and now he supervised 17 Phd-theses.
In 2004 he became an ordinary member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His main research interests are comparative global labour history, including labour migrations, craftsmen's and journeymen's guilds, labour relations (in particular in the brick industry) and the monetization of remunerations. His empirical research concerns Europe and India.
