Luiza Antonie is Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph. She received her PhD in computing science from the University of Alberta with specialization in data mining. Her research interests include applied record linkage and data integration, associative classifiers, and social informatics.
Ewout Depauw is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Ghent University. He is working on quantitative methods and long-run evolutions under supervision of Prof. Dr. Isabelle Devos. In his PhD project he investigates the well-being of the lower classes by examining the heights of prisoners during the last quarter of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Recent publications include “‘Toddlers, Teenagers, and Terminal Heights” (with Deborah Oxley).
Johan Fourie is Professor of economics and history at Stellenbosch University where he coordinates the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP) research unit. He is a founding member of the African Economic History Network, a former editor of Economic History of Developing Regions and president of the Economic History Society of Southern Africa.
Rowena Gray is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Merced. Her areas of research are early-twentieth-century US technological change, historical migrations, inequality, crime, and housing markets. She is the author, with Gaia Narciso and Gaspare Tortorici, of “Globalization, Agricultural Markets and Mass Migration: Italy, 1881–1912” in Explorations in Economic History (2019). She also published “Crime and Violence” in the 2018 Palgrave volume An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, edited by Chris Colvin and Matthias Blum.
Kris Inwood is Professor of economics and history at the University of Guelph and the editor (with Peter Baskerville) of Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources (McGill-Queens University Press, 2015).
Rebecca Kippen is Associate Professor of demography in the School of Rural Health, Monash University. Her research interests include longitudinal analysis of historical population data, and urban-rural health and mortality differentials.
Prof. Dr. Jan Kok holds the Chair of Economic, Social and Demographic History at the Radboud University (Research Institute for Culture and History) in Nijmegen. His professorship is devoted to the study of historical life courses, by promoting empirical research projects, elaborating concepts,and stimulating the development of new data sets and research methods. He recently devoted his attention to the field of anthropometric history. He is also co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal History of the Family: An International Quarterly.
Martine Mariotti is Senior Lecturer in economics at the Australian National University. She received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. Martine works on the social, economic, and demographic history of South Africans during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is Professor of history at the University of Tasmania. His research interests are life course and intergenerational outcomes with a focus on the history of crime and health as well as a range of methodological issues including record linkage, archival informatics, and spatial analysis.
Chris Minns is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research interests are in the operation of historical labor markets, with a particular focus on migration, education and training, and work time.
Björn Quanjer studied history at the University in Groningen. In 2017 he started his PhD at the Radboud University (Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies) in Nijmegen as part of the GIANTS project. This project aims to find an answer to how and why the Dutch became the tallest people on the planet. For his part of the project he focuses on how early life conditions determine adult height.
Eric B. Schneider is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His recent work has focused on understanding how child health and growth has changed over time. Recent publications include “Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: Critical windows and the growth pattern, 1917–39” with Kota Ogasawara published in Explorations in Economic History in 2018 and “Fetal health stagnation: Have health conditions in utero improved in the United States and Western and Northern Europe over the past 150 years?” published in Social Science & Medicine in 2017.
Richard H Steckel is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the Ohio State University. A pioneer in anthropometric history, his research measures and analyzes long-term trends in health and demographic behavior.
Fraser Summerfield is currently Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at St. Francis Xavier University. He received his PhD from the University of Guelph in 2014 and completed postdoctoral studies in the Center for European Labour Market Research at the University of Aberdeen. Fraser’s research expertise is in applied econometrics and his interests include topics in labor economics and economic history.
Ariell Zimran is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Vanderbilt University and Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He completed his PhD in Economics at Northwestern University in 2016. His research focuses on health in the nineteenth-century United States and on the Age of Mass Migration.
