Frank Schipper

Frank Schipper

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.

 
Frank Schipper
IPO 1.18
PO Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
+31(0)40 247 5409
f [dot] schipper [at] tue [dot] nl
 

 

Publications

Books:

"a pathbreaking, illuminating organizational history of national and international federation-based plans for European highway construction and road transport (...). It belongs on the bookshelf of any transport historian or historian of European integration."

Hans-Liudger Dienel, head of the Center of Technology and Society of the Berlin University of Technology, president of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility

 
 
Articles:
  • Johan Schot and Frank Schipper, “Experts and European Transport Integration 1945-1958,” Journal of European Public Policy (forthcoming, February 2011)
  • Sébastien Gardon, Arnaud Passalacqua et Frank Schipper, « « Pour une histoire des circulations sur la circulation » », Métropoles, 6, Des mobilités urbaines à la ville mobile. Sur les traces des circulations urbaines, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 30 novembre 2009 (http://metropoles.revues.org/document4053.html).
  • Frank Schipper, « Unravelling hieroglyphs : Urban traffic signs and the League of Nations », Métropoles, 6, Des mobilités urbaines à la ville mobile. Sur les traces des circulations urbaines, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 25 novembre 2009 (http://metropoles.revues.org/4062).
  • Frank Schipper, 'Changing the face of Europe: European road mobility during the Marshall Plan years', in: The Journal of Transport History, 28, 2 (2007), pp.45-62.
  • Erik van Vleuten, Irene Anastasiadou, Vincent Lagendijk and Frank Schipper, 'Europe's System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks', in: Contemporary European History, vol. 16, no. 3 (2007), pp.321-347
Chapters:
  • Frank Schipper. "Mobilizing Europe's Capital." In Materialising Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe, edited by Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010, 178-181.
  • Frank Schipper, Vincent Lagendijk & Irene Anastasiadou, 'New connections for an Old Continent: Rail, road and electricity in the League of Nations' Organisation for Communications and Transit', in: Alexander Badenoch & Andreas Fickers (eds.), Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), 113-143.
Conference papers:
  • “The neo-functionalist interpretation of European integration revisited: “, with Johan Schot, Tensions of Europe Conference, Sofia (BG), 17-20 June 2010.
  • “The role of experts, their beliefs and network in European transport integration, 1945-58,” with Johan Schot, Transport, Traffic and Mobility Conference, Lucerne (CH), November 2009, Awarded with the Cornelis Lely prize.
  • “The saddest chapter in the history of European integration”: The promise and pitfalls of developing a common transport policy in postwar Europe,” with Johan Schot, Society for the History of Technology Conference, Pittsburgh (USA), 15-18 October 2009.
  • “The tourist, the bus, and Europe”, ESF SCH exploratory workshop Eurobus, Helmond (NL), 11-13 June 2009.
  • “European integration and infrastructures since the 19th century”, Economics of Infrastructures Conference, session ‘Internationalisation of infrastructures in history,’ Delft (NL), 14-15 May 2009.
  • “The role of experts, their beliefs and networks in European transport integration, 1945-1958”, European Consortium for Political Research workshop ‘The Role of Transnational Experts in European Integration: Recharging the Debate," Lisbon (P), 15-19 Apr. 2009.
  • “Marshall and Mobility”, Appropriating America conference, Amsterdam (NL), January 2009.
  • “Glocal Signs: Urban Traffic Signs and the League of Nations”, Global history ENIUGH Conference, Dresden (D), 3-5 July 2008.
  • Historical perspectives on the international dimensions of infrastructure governance, Paper presented at the 11th Annual Conference on the Economics of Infrastructures, Delft, 22-23 May 2008.
  • Mobility, Marshall & Movies, Paper presented at the T2M Conference, Helmond, October 2007.
  • Was the road to Europe paved with good intentions? Building highways in the Balkans, Paper presented at the American Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, 3-7 January 2007.
  • All roads lead to Europe: The E-road network 1950-1970, Paper presented at the T2M conference, Paris, 28 September - 1 October 2006.
  • (with Vincent Lagendijk) "European road and electricity networks in the 20th century: Imagination, contestation, realization", Paper presented at the N.W. Posthumus Ph.D. candidate conference, Amsterdam, 12 May 2006.
  • (with Vincent Lagendijk) "Seducing the apostate state: Road
    and electricity networks in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980", Paper presented at
    the TIE-Workshop, Eindhoven/Rolduc, April 2006, and at a masterclass
    with John Krige, Eindhoven, 19 June 2006.
  • 'The Drive for Peace? Road Planning and the European Project during the Interbellum'. SHOT Annual Conference 2005, Minneapolis (USA), 3-6 November 2005.
  • '"You too can be like us": Americanising European (Road) Transport'. T2M Conference, York (UK), 6-9 October 2005.

In addition:

  • Frank Schipper & Erik van der Vleuten, "Transnational infrastructure development and governance in historical perspective',
    Network Industries Quarterly vol. 10, no. 3 (expected autumn 2008).
  • "Conference report of: Second Plenary Conference of the Tensions of Europe Network, Lappeenranta, Finland 24-28 May 2006", in: Technology and Culture, vol. 47 nr. 4, pp.799-802.
  • Book review of: Paul Erker (2005), Vom nationalen zum globalen Wettbewerb: Die deutsche und amerikanischeReifenindustre im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag.
  • Political Institutions andDemocratic Stability in Colombia, Costa Rica and Venezuela, in Dutch, MA thesis, Leiden University, March 2003.
  • By Reason or Force: State Building in Copiapó, Chile, 1830-1841, in Dutch, MA thesis, Leiden University, April 2003.
  • Intercultural Management", chapter 4, pp. 35-42, "Judicial Context Chile", chapter 5, pp. 45-61, in: International Contract Research (1999), Chile and Argentina: Two Countries on the Move (in Dutch), Rotterdam: Donner, ISBN-nr. 90-805214-1-8.