- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History, Education
- Website
- https://sheilaghogilvie.com/
Sheilagh Ogilvie grew up in the western Canadian city of Calgary, but has since lived in Scotland, Germany, England, the USA and the Czech Republic. She is currently based in the UK, where she is Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She explores the lives of ordinary people in the past and tries to explain how poor economies get richer and improve human well-being. She holds degrees from the University of St Andrews (1979), Cambridge (1985), and Chicago (1992), and has been successively Lecturer (1989), Reader (2000), and Professor of Economic History (2004) in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. She has published on institutions and economic development, the economics of guilds, merchants, rural communities, serfdom, human capital, consumption, retailing, occupational structure, demography, proto-industry, banking, female labour force participation, regulation, the growth of the state, and social capital. She is the winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize (1999, 2021), the Anton Gindeley Prize (2004), the René Kuczynski Prize (2004), and the Stanley Z. Pech Prize (2008).
Current post
All Souls College, University of Oxford Chichele Professor of Economic History
2020 -
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Professor of Economic History
2004 - 2020
University of Cambridge Reader in Economic History
1999 - 2004
University of Cambridge University Lecturer in Economics
1992 - 1999
University of Cambridge University Assistant Lecturer
1989 - 1992
Publications
The Economics of Guilds
Sheilagh Ogilvie - Published in 2014 by Journal of Economic Perspectives 28:4
Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?
Sheilagh Ogilvie - Published in 2014 by The Journal of Economic History 74:3
Germany: a new social and economic history, 1450-present
Published in 1995 1996, 2003
Three volumes
Nine Fellows of the British Academy on how their subjects could shape the 2020s
24 Jan 2020
Leading professors in the humanities and social sciences set out the challenges and opportunities facing their subjects in the 2020s.
