Professor Kris Inwood
Hello! I am a professor in History and in Economics the University of Guelph committed to the recovery of individual records from censuses, military examinations, prisons, and other archival sources in order to investigate industrialization, work, social mobility, inequality, and population well-being.
Recent and forthcoming publications:
“Enumerating Indigenous Populations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”, Historical Methods DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2026.2671668, w. D. Feir, M. Jones & R. Gillezeau.
“The geography of economic mobility in 19th Century Canada”, Canadian Journal of Economics DOI: 10.1111/caje.70058, w L. Antonie, C. Minns & F. Summerfield.
“The Canadian Peoples, new Canadian census data 1871-1921”, Historical Methods DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2026.2737109, w L. Dillon & J. Foxcroft.
“The Decline of Child Stunting in 122 Countries: A Systematic Review of Child Growth Studies Since the Nineteenth Century”, BMJ Global Health 11: e018607. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-018607, with Eric Schneider et al.
“Mobility and marriage: preliminary findings from a new longitudinal dataset of Canadian women, 1871-1901”, Historical Methods DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2026.2696536 w. L.Antonie, J.Foxcroft, C.Minns, F.Summerfield & T.Zhu.
“Racial Bias in Criminal Sentencing: Historical Evidence from Chinese Railroad Workers in British Columbia”, Canadian Journal of Economics 58: 1638-1663. DOI: 10.1111/caje.70025, with I.Keay & B.Long.
“The Physical Well-Being of Indigenous Communities in the Pacific Northwest: Anthropometric Evidence from British Columbia’s Jails, 1864-1913”, Economics and Human Biology 55: 101442, w. I.Keay https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101442.
“Prison bodies: the height and weight of men in Canadian prisons 1874-1935”, pp.107-134 in L. Kennedy & A. Shaw, eds, Fat and the Body in the Long Nineteenth Century (U Toronto Press), w. L.Antonie & H.Maxwell-Stewart.
“Surviving the Deluge: British Servicemen in World War I”, Economics and Human Biology 49 (April 2023): 101216, w. R. Bailey & T. Hatton.
“Adolescent Growth & Convict Transportation to Nineteenth-Century Australia”, History of the Family 28: 256-277, w. T.Donald & H.Maxwell-Stewart.
“Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865-1920”, Economics and Human Biology 47: 101158, w. J.Fourie & M. Mariotti.
“Race reclassification in Cape Town, 1950-1983”. pp 117-138 in J. Fourie ed, Quantitative History and Uncharted People: Case Studies from the South African Past (London: Bloomsbury), w. B. Chalmers & J. Fourie.