People

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Members of the LSE Historical Economic Demography (HED) Group are drawn from across LSE's academic departments, reflecting the interdisciplinarity of the group.  The HED group is co-directed by Eric Schneider and Neil Cummins.  In addition, a board made up of several more group members advises on the group's strategy and helps to organise events.  The board currently includes Izzi Carter, Nick Fitzhenry, Louis Henderson, Tracy Keefe and Chris Minns.  The group is happy to host academic visitors through the Economic History Department.  Please get in touch with the directors if you would like to join the group or enquire about a visit to LSE.

 

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Professor Eric Schneider

Co-Director of HED Group
Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Historical child growth, historical morbidity, fetal/neonatal health, health costs of pollution, health transition, demographic transition

Email: e.b.schneider@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Neil Cummins

Co-Director of HED Group
Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: the origin of modern economic and demographic behaviour; fertility decline; social mobility

Email: n.j.cummins@lse.ac.uk

 

 

Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers

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Mr Dudley Baines

Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Economic History

Research interests: migration; historical labour markets in London

Email: d.e.baines@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Jordan Claridge

Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Medieval economic history, living standards

Email: j.claridge@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Ernestina Coast

Professor, Department of International Development

Research interests: Sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice

Emaile.coast@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Leigh Gardner

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: long-run growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa including its demographic history

Emaill.a.gardner@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Arjan Gjonça 

Associate Professor, Department of International Development

Research interests: Development and demography. Epidemiological and mortality transition and relation to development. Sex ratio at birth and female mortality disadvantage

Email: a.gjonca@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Elliott Green

Professor, Department of International Development

Research interests: Ethnic and national identity formation in historical context, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa

Emaile.d.green@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Louis Henderson

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Human capital; care work; long-run development; demographic transitions

Email: l.henderson2@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Sara Horrell

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Women's and children's work and wages, family living standards and women's and men's demographic decisions in Britain, 1280-1860

Email: s.h.horrell@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Jane Humphries

Centennial Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Standards of living, wage studies, well-being, children, family living standards.

Email: j.humphries@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Tiziana Leone

Associate Professor, Department of International Development

Research interests: Life course women's health, conflict and health, menopause and menarche in LMICs

Email: t.leone@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Chris Minns

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Migration, intergenerational mobility, regional economic development

Email: c.minns@lse.ac.uk 


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Professor Michael Murphy

Emeritus Professor, Department of Social Policy

Research interests: Formal demography, population ageing, household & kin modelling, forecasting

Email: m.murphy@lse.ac.uk


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Aurelius Noble

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Inequality, social mobility, big data, computer vision, document analysis, machine learning, network analysis, Victorian Britain

Emaila.j.noble@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Tom Raster

Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Economic geography, pandemics, migration

Emailt.raster@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Joan Roses

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Historical economic geography, long-run economic growth, well-being, and pandemics

Emailj.r.roses@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Mohamed Saleh

Associate Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Economic history of the Middle East and North Africa, historical economic demography, historical political economy

Email: m.saleh@lse.ac.uk


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Professor Wendy Sigle

Professor, Department of Gender Studies

Research interests: Methodological legacies - how established research methods reproduce problematic conceptual frameworks and impede efforts to promote social justice.

Email: w.sigle@lse.ac.uk 


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Professor Patrick Wallis

Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Long-run health and healthcare; human capital; pharmacy

Email: p.h.wallis@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Melanie Meng Xue

Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History

Research interests: My work focuses on culture and institutions. Some of it is related to gender norms. I have ongoing work on attitudes towards children and fertility.

Email: m.m.xue@lse.ac.uk

 

PhD Researchers

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Ross Barker

PhD student, Department of Methodology

Research interests: Social pressures; norms; fertility; historical text; books; newspapers; childlessness; gender

Email: r.barker1@lse.ac.uk


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Izzi Carter

PhD student, Department of Methodology

Research interests: Historical health and mortality transitions

Email: i.g.carter@lse.ac.uk


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Qi Cui

PhD student, Department of Methodology

Research interests: Fertility transition, Mathematical demography, intergenerational transmission, marriage

Email: q.cui1@lse.ac.uk


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Midanna de Almada

PhD student, Department of Methodology

Research Interests:  Demography; global health; sexual and reproductive health; contraceptive use; data use for decision-making

Email: m.de-almada@lse.ac.uk


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Eoin Dignam

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Economic history, climate economics, climate change and health, the demographic transition in France.

Email: e.a.dignam@lse.ac.uk


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Nick Fitzhenry

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: South African history, health inequalities, colonial medicine, anthropometrics, development economics, economic history of Africa, historical demography

Email: n.a.fitzhenry@lse.ac.uk


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Hampton Gaddy

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: historical mortality; the 1918 influenza epidemic; the demographic impacts of crises

Email: h.g.gaddy@lse.ac.uk


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Dwi Anggi Novianti

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Economic history of pandemics, the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu, economic history of Indonesia and Asia

Email: d.novianti@lse.ac.uk


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Johann Ohler

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Economic history; population economics, political economy

Emailj.p.ohler@lse.ac.uk


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Matthew Purcell

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Maternal and child health, fertility, social determinants of health

Email: m.purcell@lse.ac.uk


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Jingwen Shi

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Social welfare; altruism; demographic transitions; long-run growth

Emailj.shi42@lse.ac.uk


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Dijana Spasenoska

PhD student, Department of Social Policy

Research interests: Health in times of political transition; mortality; ex-Yugoslav countries; Balkans; social determinants of health; health policy; immunization

Email: d.spasenoska@lse.ac.uk


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Noah Sutter

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Social mobility in the 19th century, persistence of old regime elites, early industrial capitalists, wealth inequality, French economic history

Emailn.w.sutter@lse.ac.uk


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Weizhe Zhang

PhD Student, Department of Economic History

Research Interests: Socio-economic and demographic impact of social welfare programmes; economic history in the Regency Era

Email: w.zhang59@lse.ac.uk


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Tianning Zhu

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Migration; Chinese economic history; historical demography

Email: t.zhu8@lse.ac.uk


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Ziming Zhu

PhD student, Department of Economic History

Research interests: Economic history, social mobility, geographic mobility

Email: z.zhu11@lse.ac.uk

Alumni Researchers

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Dr David Escamilla-Guerrero

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of St Andrews

Dissertation title: Cliometric essays on Mexican migration to the United States

Completion year: 2020

Research interests: My research interests are at the intersection between immigration and labour markets, with a focus on North and Latin America.

Emaildrescamillag@gmail.com 


Sijie Hu

Dr Sijie Hu

Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China

Dissertation titleA Micro-Demographic Analysis of Human Fertility from Chinese Genealogies, 1368-1911

Completion year: 2021

Research interests: Chinese historical demography; Chinese population history; social mobility; gender inequality

Emailsjhu92@outlook.com


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Dr Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri

Junior Researcher, Central Bank of Colombia

Dissertation titleFertility, education and social mobility in 20th century Colombia

Completion year: 2023

Research interests: My primary research interest is studying demographical changes, historical development and the persistence of social status in the long run.

Email: juliana.jaramilloe@gmail.com


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Dr Xizi Luo

EHS Postdoctoral Researcher

Dissertation title: State, Elite Families, and the Examination System in the Qing Dynasty.

Completion year: 2024

Research interests: social mobility, marriage assortment, meritocracy, and political economy

Emailx.luo10@lse.ac.uk


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Dr Aurelius Noble

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economic History

Dissertation titleSocial capital and elite persistence in late Victorian and Edwardian England

Completion year: 2024

Research interests: Long-run wealth inequality, the persistence of aristocratic elites, with a focus on 'Big Data' collection methods (automated transcription and nlp).

Emailaureliusnoble@gmail.com


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Dr Charles Udale

Law Student

Dissertation title: The Plague and the State in Early Modern England, 1538-1667

Completion year: 2024

Research Interests: Early modern demographic, medical and social history.

Emailcharlieudale@live.co.uk


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Dr Hillary Vipond

Postdoctoral researcher,  Complexity Science Hub Vienna; visiting scholar at Harvard Kennedy Growth Lab

Dissertation title: Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain: A Tasks Based Approach

Completion year: 2024

Research interests: Technological labour displacement, job creation, job loss, access to opportunity, social mobility (HED), shared prosperity (HED), 19th century

Emailvipond@csh.ac.at