This year’s Jan Lucassen Award goes to Mark Hup from the University of California (Irvine), where he is preparing his PhD thesis in economics under the guidance of Professor Dan Bogart.
For his paper: Corvée Labour and State Expansion in Colonial Indonesia
From the jury report:
“The paper, which engages with labour history and economic history, is well structured, clear in the methodology used that combines social sciences and history. We find here an excellent combination of empirical historical research and social science theory and techniques. Besides, the theoretical premises are not as narrow as in much econometric-statistical research, but here they encompass both economic, social and political motivations, and Hup shows how to disentangle these.”
“Mark will receive the prize because he critically combines theory and history, he builds a new database proxying the expansion of the State with some variables such as the density of the state officials, the availability of wage labour and the industrialization process.”
The Jury also awarded two honourable mentions to
– Henning Bovenkerk for his paper: Silk for Peasants? Global goods in rural households in the 17th and 18th century Northwestern Germany
and
– Emmanuel Falguières for his paper: Land Ownership as a Social Practice in the United States. A Case Study from Kansas, 1870-1930
Congratulations!
You can read the full jury report here
The award and honourable mentions will be presented at the General Meeting of the postponed ESSHC in March 2021
