David Mayer Author & Editor

Ad Knotter is Professor of Comparative Regional History at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and Director of the Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg (Center for the Social History of Limburg) at the same university. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Review of Social History. His areas of research are comparative regional history and historical border studies, the comparative history of mining regions, labour history and migration history. David Mayer is executive editor of the International Review of Social History. In 2011 he completed his PhD on the history of Marxist historiographic debates in Latin America in the 'long 1960s' (University of Vienna). He has spent lengthy research stays in Latin America. His main research interests are the history of social movements, the history of Marxism and left-wing intellectuals, and the history of historiography. He acts as vice-president of the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH).