Dr P. Puschmann (Paul)

Assistant professor - Department of History, Art History and Classics
Member - Representative Council Faculty of Arts
Assistant professor - Radboud Institute for Culture and History

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Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Paul Puschmann is an Assistant Professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is specialized in historical demography, migration history and the history of marriage and the family. He is also interested in the population history of North Africa and the Middle East.

Research group

Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History

Tags: Historical Demography, Family History, Migration History

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Key publications

Puschmann, P., Matsuo, H. & Matthijs, K. (2022). Historical Life Courses and Family Reconstitutions. The Scientific Impact of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Historical Life Course Studies, 12 (Special issue 4), 260-278. doi: 10.51964/hlcs12914 Full text
Pink, K.E., Willführ, K.P., Voland, E. & Puschmann, P. (2020). Effects of Individual Mortality Experience on Out-of-Wedlock Fertility in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Krummhörn, Germany. Human Nature. doi: 10.1007/s12110-020-09368-3 Full text
Puschmann, P. (Ed.). (2020). A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of Empires (The Cultural Histories Series, 5). London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic
Puschmann, P., Sundin, E., De Coninck, D. & d'Haenens, L. (2019). Migration and Integration Policy in Europe: Comparing Belgium and Sweden. In L. d'Haenens, W. Joris & F. Heinderyckx (Eds.), Images of Immigrants and Refugees in Western Europe. Media Representations, Public Opinion, and Refugees' Experiences (pp. 21-36). Leuven: Leuven University Press doi: 10.11116/9789461662811 Full text
Donrovich, R., Puschmann, P. & Matthijs, K. (2018). Mortality Clustering in the Family. Fast Life History Trajectories and the Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Death in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Antwerp, Belgium. Historical Life Course Studies, 7, 47-68. doi: 10.51964/hlcs9285 Full text
Puschmann, P., Donrovich, R. & Matthijs, K. (2017). Salmon Bias or Red Herring? Comparing adult mortality risks (ages 30-90) between natives and internal migrants: Stayers, returnees and movers in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1850-1940. Human Nature, 28 (4), 481-499. doi: 10.1007/s12110-017-9303-1 Full text
Puschmann, P., Van den Driessche, N., Matthijs, K. & Van de Putte, B. (2016). Paths of Acculturation and Social Inclusion. Migration, Marriage Opportunities and Assortative Mating by Geographic Origin in Antwerp, 1846-1920. Journal of Migration History, 2 (1), 177-207. doi: 10.1163/23519924-00201007
Courbage, Y. & Puschmann, P. (2015). Does demographic revolution lead to democratic revolution? The case of North Africa and the Middle East. In Koenraad Matthijs, Karel Neels, Christiane Timmerman, Jacques Haers & S. Mels (Eds.), Population Change in Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa. Beyond the Demographic Divide (International Population Studies) (pp. 203-223). Farnham: Ashgate
Puschmann, P. (2015, December 15). Social Inclusion and Exclusion of Urban In-Migrants in Northwestern European Port Cities. Antwerp, Rotterdam & Stockholm ca. 1850-1930. KU Leuven (303 pag.) (Leuven: KU Leuven) Supervisor(s): prof. dr. K. Matthijs, prof. dr. J. Kok & L. Lucassen.
Puschmann, P. & Matthijs, K. (2015). The demographic transition in the Arab world: The dual role of marriage in family dynamics and population growth. In Koen Matthijs, Karel Neels, Christiane Timmerman & Jacques Haers (Eds.), Population Change in Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa. Beyond the Demographic Divide: (International Population Studies) (pp. 119-165) Farnham: Ashgate
Donrovich, R., Puschmann, P. & Matthijs, K. (2014). Rivalry, solidarity, and longevity among siblings: A life course approach to the impact of sibship composition and birth order on later life mortality risk, Antwerp (1846-1920). Demographic Research, 31 (38), 1167-1198. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.38 Full text
Puschmann, P. & Solli, A. (2014). Household and family during urbanization and industrialization: Efforts to shed new light on an old debate. The History of the Family, 19 (1), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/1081602X.2013.871570
Engelen, Th.L.M. & Puschmann, P. (2011). How unique is the Western European marriage pattern? A comparison of nuptiality in historical Europe and the contemporary Arab world. The History of the Family, 16 (4), 387-400. doi: 10.1016/j.hisfam.2011.07.004
Puschmann, P. (2011). Casablanca. A Demographic Miracle on Moroccan Soil? (Acco Academic). Leuven: Acco Full text

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