E-mail:
 jan-arend.degraaf@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Telefonnummer:
+49 234 32 28822

Funktion:
Junior Professor of European History

Raum:
208 im HGR
Clemensstr. 17-19
44789 Bochum

Forschungsschwerpunkte (Auswahl):

• Social Cohesion
• Social Mobility
• Europe
• East-West
• Democracy
• Strikes
• Social Democracy
• Coal Mining
• Consensus Politics.

Beruflicher Werdegang:
Jan de Graaf is Junior Professor European History at the Ruhr University Bochum and member of the Young Academy of Europe. He leads the junior research group „Europe’s Postwar Consensus: A Golden Age of Social Cohesion and Social Mobility?“, funded by the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Prior to coming to Bochum in 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the KU Leuven (Belgium), where he worked on a comparative project of wildcat strikes as a pan-European phenomenon funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). He obtained his PhD from the University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom) in 2015. A revised and extended version of that thesis was published in the New Studies in European History book series of Cambridge University Press. 

Forschungsprojekte (Auswahl):

• Europe’s Postwar Consensus: A Golden Age of Social Cohesion and Social Mobility?
• Europe on Strike: Wildcat Strikes as a Pan-European Phenomenon, 1945-1955
• Socialism Across the Iron Curtain: Socialist Parties and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945

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