Dr. Lucas Poy

Biography

Lucas Poy is an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, specializing in Global Economic and Social History. His research primarily focuses on the history of labor, migration, and socialism from a global perspective, with particular attention to transnational connections, the Global South, issues of race, and solidarity. He is currently completing a monograph on socialist debates surrounding labor migration in the age of empire, set to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. Additionally, he has co-edited a volume titled 'Rent Strikes: A History of Collective Tenant Actions Globally,' scheduled for release by UCL Press in November 2025. Poy has authored three monographs and numerous peer-reviewed articles in various languages. He is a fellow of the International Institute of Social History and the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Since joining VU Amsterdam in 2022, he has also worked as a lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires and as a senior researcher with CONICET in Argentina. He has received fellowships and grants from institutions and universities across Latin America, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and has coordinated the International Association of Labour History Institutions from 2018 to 2023. At VU Amsterdam, he teaches BA and MA programs in History and supervises various academic theses, emphasizing global history, Latin American studies, labor migration, the history of capitalism, and inequality.

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