Wim Willems
Professor emeritus of Social History
- Name
- Prof.dr. W.H. Willems
- Telephone
- 071 527 1646
- w.h.willems@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Wim Willems is Professor Emeritus of Social History at the Leiden University Institute for History.
Wim Willems is Professor Emeritus of Social History at the Leiden University Institute for History.
Research
Prof. dr. Wim Willems has written a number of books on immigrants and ethnic minorities and has edited several volumes (in Dutch) on Dutch from the former East-Indies and colonial history. He has also written widely on the history of traveling groups, especially Gypsies and caravan-dwellers. He was involved in projects on 'Gypsies and other itinerant groups, a socio-historical approach', 'The return and reception of 'Dutch repatriates' from the Indies after the Second World War' and 'The history of Dutch migrants from the Netherlands Indies in a comparative perspective, 1945-1995' and 'Life stories of the twentieth century'. He has worked on a range of research projects in the fields of urban studies and historical migration studies - see the coming book on Polish migrants. Apart from that he had a series on the history of The Hague in the AD/Haagsche Courant. Prof. dr. Wim Willems was director of the Centre for Modern Urban Studies at Faculty Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University.
Professor emeritus of Social History
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Economic and Social History