Kris Inwood
Professor
College of Arts, Department of History
Education
Ph.D. University of Toronto 1984
B.A. Trent University 1974
Professional
Editor, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. Visiting Fellowships at Cambridge University, University of Edinburgh, Australian National University, Wellington University of Victoria
Research
industrialization; inequality; social mobility; health and well-being; gender; census
areas of research for graduate supervision:
Canadian history; social and economic history; comparative colonial histories; industrialization; inequality; health and well-being; gender; Aboriginal peoples; population history; quantitative methods
Recent Publications
"The geography of economic mobility in 19th Century Canada” (2026), 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” (2026), 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” (2026), 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” (2026), Historical Methods DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2026.2671668, w. D. Feir, M. Jones, R. Gillezeau.
“Racial Bias in Criminal Sentencing: Historical Evidence from Chinese Railroad Workers in British Columbia” (2025), Canadian Journal of Economics 58: 1638-1663. DOI: 10.1111/caje.70025, with I.Keay & B.Long.
selected earlier publications
“The return of quantitative approaches to Canadian history” (2020), Canadian Historical Review 101: 585-601, w. P.Baskerville.
"Atmospheric Pollution and Child Health in Late Nineteenth Century Britain" (2018), Journal of Economic History 78: 1210-1247, w. R.Bailey & T.Hatton
Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources (McGill-Queens University Press, 2015), w Peter Baskerville.
“The Social Consequences of Legal Reform: Women and Property in a Canadian Community” (2004), Continuity and Change v19 n1 (winter 2004), pp. 165-197 w S. Van Sligtenhorst.
Farm, Factory and Fortune: New Studies in the Economic History of the Maritime Provinces (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1993).
Funding
Australian Research Council, Royal Society of New Zealand, NZ Health Research Council, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, Sharcnet, Google