Frank Schipper

Frank Schipper

Frank Schipper (1976) works as a post-doc researcher at the School of Innovation Sciences of the Technical University of Eindhoven. His research-project "Exploring the International Dimensions of Infrastructures: A Historical Perspective" is sponsored by the Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation (www.nginfra.nl). It is part of the Understanding Complex Networks sub-program of this massive academic undertaking. The project explores long-term developments of cross-border interaction in electricity, railways, and telecommunication networks in relation to the governance structures steering their use across national borders.

The post-doc project builds on Frank's earlier PhD project, which concerned the intersection of roads and European integration in the twentieth century. The project brought him to Brussels, Florence, Geneva, Paris, and several archives in the United States. He successfully defended his thesis Driving Europe: Building Europe on Roads in the Twentieth Century on 30 September 2008. The book is available at Aksant Academic Publishers (click here).

Frank holds two MA degrees from Leiden University, one in Political Science with a specialization in comparative politics, another in Latin American Studies with a specialization in history, for which he did research in the Archivo Nacional de Chile 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 2.02
PO Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
+31(0)40 247 5409
f.schipper@tue.nl

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

Books:

Reviewed in Management & Organisatie (Dutch).

Articles:
  • 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: Alexander Badenoch & Andreas Fickers (eds.), Europe materializing? (submitted to Palgrave MacMillan, expected 2009).
  • 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/document4053.html).
  • 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
Conference papers:

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.