Professor Kris Inwood
Hello! I am a professor in Economics and in History at the University of Guelph whose interests lie in the borderlands between history and the social sciences. My teaching explores economic and quantitative social history, historical demography and economic development. I investigate inequality, changes in physcial well-being and the standard of living.
Recent publications:
2026
“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.
“Institutional formalism and criminal sentencing on the frontier: Evidence from British Columbia’s Jails, 1864-1913” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 42:385-415, w. I.Keay & B.Long.
“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.
“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.
“Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century: Opportunities and Challenges”, Historical Methods DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2026.2632647, w L. Trudeau-Laurin et al.
“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.
“Datasets and the City: Reconstructing and Repopulating Hobart 1846-1905”, Australasian Historical Archaeology (forthcoming), w. R.Tuffin, L.Frost, H. Maxwell-Stewart, M.Shanahan, J.Wilson
“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.
2025
“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.
2024
“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.
2023
“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.