Professor Kris Inwood
Hello! I am a professor in the Department of History and also in the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph. My research builds on individual-level records that can be recovered at scale from historical census enumerations, military personnel attestations, prison admission registers and other archival sources in order to investigate industrialization, work, social mobility, inequality, and population well-being.
Recently I coordinated the November 2026 issue of Historical Methods, which introduces new Canadian historical census data: “The Canadian Peoples, new Canadian census data 1871-1921”, Historical Methods DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2026.2737109.
Other recent and forthcoming publications include:
“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 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.