Professor Richard Smith FBA
History
About this Fellow
My research and publications have focused on the history of marriage, principally in medieval Europe, peasant inheritance practices and customary law, welfare practices and their demographic correlates in medieval and early modern England and urban historical epidemiology. Much of this work has been undertaken while Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University and Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. I currently hold a Senior Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust (2014-2019) to undertake research on 'Migration, Mortality and Medicalization: investigating the long-run epidemiological consequences of urbanisation in England 1600-1939'.
Appointments
Current post
- Emeritus Professor of Historical Geography and Demography and Director, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge
Past Appointments
- University Lecturer in Population History, University of Oxford, 1983 - 1989
- Reader in History of Medicine and Director of Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1990 - 1994
- Director, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, 1994 - 1970
- Emeritus Professor of Historical Demography and Geography, University of Cambridge, 2011 - 1970
Publications
Welfare of the Individual and the group: Malthus and externalitioes American Philosophical Society 2001
1970The World We Have Gained: Histories of Population and Social Structure 1986
1970Bastardy and its comparative history 1981
1970Land, kinship and life-cycle 1984
1970Medieval society and the manor court 1996
1970Other Anthropology and Geography Fellows
Professor Robert Foley
Human evolution: the evolutionary ecology of extinct hominins; the evolution of human behaviour and culture; prehistory and archaeology of early human populations; evolutionary theory in archaeology and anthropology.
Professor Chris Fuller
The anthropology of India, including popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system, the modern state, globalisation and the middle class; field research mainly in Tamil Nadu.
Professor Linda McDowell
Geographies of labour market change in the UK; gender divisions of labour; interactive work in the service sector; economic migration since 1945; memory and oral histories, especially of women migrants
Professor Daniel Miller
Anthropology of Social Media and Digital Anthropology. Anthropological approaches to material culture including clothing and homes; the role of objects in relationships; the process of consumption and the study of commerce and value
