Lucas Poy is Assistant Professor in Global Economic and Social History and coordinator of the Honours Programme at the School of Humanities of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
His research focuses on the history of labour, migration, and socialism in a global perspective, with particular attention to transnational connections, the Global South, and questions of race and solidarity. He is currently completing a monograph on socialist debates about labour migration in the age of empire (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan), and has just finished co-editing the volume Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world (UCL Press, November 2025). He has also published three earlier monographs and dozens of peer-reviewed articles in several languages.
Dr. Poy is also a fellow of the International Institute of Social History and of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Before joining VU Amsterdam in 2022, he was lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires and senior researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina. Over the years he has received fellowships and grants from institutions and universities in Latin America, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States.
He serves on the editorial boards of journals in Europe and the Americas, including the International Review of Social History, Journal of Labor and Society, Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores, and Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda. Between 2018 and 2023 he coordinated the International Association of Labour History Institutions.
At VU Amsterdam he teaches in the BA programmes Geschiedenis and History and International Studies, and in the MA History, where he also supervises BA, MA, and RMA theses. He is currently co-supervising two PhD projects. His teaching and supervision emphasize global history, Latin American studies, labour and migration, and the history of capitalism and inequality.
