People
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, Hampton Gaddy, 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.
Co-Director of HED Group
Professor, Department of Economic HistoryResearch interests: Historical child growth, historical morbidity, fetal/neonatal health, health costs of pollution, health transition, demographic transition
Email: e.b.schneider@lse.ac.uk
Co-Director of HED Group
Professor, Department of Economic HistoryResearch interests: the origin of modern economic and demographic behaviour; fertility decline; social mobility
Email: n.j.cummins@lse.ac.uk
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Economic History
Research interests: migration; historical labour markets in London
Email: d.e.baines@lse.ac.uk
Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Medieval economic history, living standards
Email: j.claridge@lse.ac.uk
Professor, Department of International Development
Research interests: Sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice
Email: e.coast@lse.ac.uk
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests:long-run growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa including its demographic history
Email: l.a.gardner@lse.ac.uk
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests: Historical economic demography; public provision of local amenities; ethnic identities and spatial sorting
Email: A.Green10@lse.ac.uk
Professor, Department of International Development
Research interests:Ethnic and national identity formation in historical context, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa
Email: e.d.green@lse.ac.uk
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Human capital; care work; long-run development; demographic transitions
Email: l.henderson2@lse.ac.uk
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Policy
Research Interests: Inequality, intergenerational mobility, education policy
Email: m.hossain9@lse.ac.uk
Centennial Professor Emerita, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Standards of living, wage studies, well-being, children, family living standards.
Email: j.humphries@lse.ac.uk
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
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Migration, intergenerational mobility, regional economic development
Email: c.minns@lse.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor, Department of Social Policy
Research interests: Formal demography, population ageing, household & kin modelling, forecasting
Email: m.murphy@lse.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Inequality, social mobility, big data, computer vision, document analysis, machine learning, network analysis, Victorian Britain
Email: a.j.noble@lse.ac.uk
Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Economic geography, pandemics, migration
Email: t.raster@lse.ac.uk
Professor, Department of Sociology
Research interests: The historical evolution of elites and health
Email: a.s.reeves@lse.ac.uk
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Historical economic geography, long-run economic growth, well-being, and pandemics
Email: j.r.roses@lse.ac.uk
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
Senior Lecturer in Practice, Department of Economics
Research interests: Russian/Soviet mortality/health/population, historically and now; Soviet economic history; gender inequality historically; academic procrastination
Email: j.c.shapiro@lse.ac.uk
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
Professor, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Long-run health and healthcare; human capital; pharmacy
Email: p.h.wallis@lse.ac.uk
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
LSE Fellow, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Occupational mobility, migration, wars
Email: z.zhu11@lse.ac.uk
PhD student, Department of Methodology
Research interests: Historical health and mortality transitions
Email: i.g.carter@lse.ac.uk
PhD student, Department of Methodology
Research interests: Fertility transition, Mathematical demography, intergenerational transmission, marriage
Email: q.cui1@lse.ac.uk
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
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
Gillian Hollebone
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Medieval economic history; slavery & unfreedom; social mobility; agriculture
Email: g.hollebone@lse.ac.uk
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
Youyan Luo
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Wealth and income inequality in China from the 14th to the 20th century
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
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Economic history; population economics, political economy
Email: j.p.ohler@lse.ac.uk
Jingwen Shi
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Social welfare; altruism; demographic transitions; long-run growth
Email: j.shi42@lse.ac.uk
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
Email: n.w.sutter@lse.ac.uk
David Marques da Costa
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Early modern effects of education on human capital formation and labour market outcomes; Jesuits Schools & Universities (Old Society).
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
Tianning Zhu
PhD student, Department of Economic History
Research interests: Migration; Chinese economic history; historical demography
Email: t.zhu8@lse.ac.uk
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.
Email: drescamillag@gmail.com
CAMPOP, University of Cambridge
Dissertation Title: Death, Doctors and Discrimination: Essays on Racial Health Inequality in Twentieth-century South Africa
Completion year: 2025
Research interests: Historical demography; health and mortality; economic development; South Africa
Email: n.a.fitzhenry@lse.ac.uk
Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China
Dissertation title: A 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
Email: sjhu92@outlook.com
Dr Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri
Junior Researcher, Central Bank of Colombia
Dissertation title: Fertility, 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
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
Email: x.luo10@lse.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economic History
Dissertation title: Social 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).
Email: aureliusnoble@gmail.com
Dr Matthew Purcell
Medical Student
Dissertation Title: Delivering Disparity: Black Maternal and Infant Health Policies and Practices in the Jim Crow South
Completion year: 2025
Research interests: Racial health disparities; innovations in medical education and healthcare
Email: mpurcell1@tulane.edu
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.
Email: charlieudale@live.co.uk
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
Email: vipond@csh.ac.at
Dr Ziming Zhu
LSE Fellow
Dissertation title: Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches: Essays on Occupational Mobility in England, 1851-1911
Completion year: 2025
Research interests: Occupational mobility, migration, wars
Email: z.zhu11@lse.ac.uk