Jane Humphries Explained
Jane Humphries CBE |
Birth Name: | Katherine Jane Humphries |
Birth Date: | 1948 11, df=yes |
Workplaces: | All Souls College, University of Oxford |
Alma Mater: | Cornell University |
Thesis Title: | The role of the manufacturing sector in economic development |
Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64053076 |
Thesis Year: | 1973 |
Main Interests: | Economic history |
Website: | http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-jane-humphries |
Katherine Jane Humphries, CBE FBA (born 9 November 1948),[1] is a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford with the Title of Distinction of professor of economic history. Her research interest has been in economic growth and development and the industrial revolution. She is the former president of the Economic History Society[2] [3] and the current vice-president of the Economic History Association.[4]
Early life
Humphries gained her economics degree from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1970; she went on to Cornell University to do both her masters and then her doctorate which she completed in 1973.[5] [6]
Career
Her professional life began at University of Massachusetts Amherst, first as an assistant professor (1973–1979), then as an associate professor (1979–1980). She was lecturer at the University of Cambridge and later a fellow of Newnham College (1980–1995). In 1993, during her period at Newnham College, Humphries was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Population and Development within Harvard University's School of Public Health.
Humphries returned to Newnham College as reader in economics and economic history in 1995, she then took up a post as reader in economic history and fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford in 1998. In 2004, she was awarded a Title of Distinction as professor of economic history at All Souls. In 2012, Humphries was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[7] After retiring from Oxford, she became Centennial Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics in 2018.[8]
Edited journals
Humphries has sat on the editorial boards of a number of peer-reviewed journals. She is currently on the editorial boards of Gender, Work and Organization,[9] and Feminist Economics.[10]
Honours
On 29 January 2016 Humphries received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.[11] In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from Sheffield University. Her 2019 article 'Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1850', co-authored with Jacob Weisdorf, was awarded the 2019 Royal Economic Society Prize.[12]
Selected bibliography
Books
- Ph.D . Humphries . Katherine Jane . 1973. The role of the manufacturing sector in economic development. Cornell University. 64678496.
- Book: Humphries, Jane . Gender and economics . Brookfield, Vermont, USA Edward Elgar . Aldershot, England . 1995 . 9781852788438 . registration .
- Book: Humphries . Jane . Rubery . Jill . The economics of equal opportunities . Equal Opportunities Commission . Manchester, England . 1995 . 978-1870358477 .
- Book: Humphries . Jane . Robeyns . Ingrid . Agarwal . Bina. Ingrid Robeyns . Bina Agarwal . Amartya Sen's work and ideas: a gender perspective . Routledge . London New York . 2005 . 9780415373203 .
- Book: Humphries . Jane . Albelda . Randy P . Himmelweit . Susan . Randy Albelda . Susan Himmelweit . Dilemmas of lone motherhood . Routledge . London New York . 2005 . 9780415360180 .
- Book: Humphries, Jane . Childhood and child labour in the British Industrial Revolution . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK New York . 2010 . 9780521847568 .
- Book: Humphries . Jane . Floud . Roderick . Johnson . Paul . Roderick Floud . Cambridge economic history of modern Britain: 1870 to the present . Cambridge University Press . 2nd . Cambridge New York . 2014 . 9781107686731 .
Journal articles
- Humphries . Jane . An open letter to the RRPE special issue on women collective . . 12 . 2 . 94 . 10.1177/048661348001200211 . July 1980 . 154815417 .
- Humphries . Jane . Rubery . Jill . The reconstruction of the supply side of the labour market: the relative autonomy of social reproduction . Cambridge Journal of Economics . 8 . 4 . 331–346 . 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a035554 . December 1984 .
- Humphries . Jane . Enclosures, common rights and women: the proletarianization of families in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain . . 50 . 1 . 17–42 . 10.1017/S0022050700035701 . March 1990 . 155042395 .
- Humphries . Jane . "Lurking in the Wings...": Women in the Historiography of the Industrial Revolution . . 20 . 1 . 32 - 44 . 1991 . 23702799 .
- Humphries . Jane . Horrell . Sara . Weale . Martin . An input-output table for 1841 . . 47 . 3 . 545–566 . 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1994.tb01390.x . August 1994 .
- Humphries . Jane . Horrell . Sara . Voth . Hans-Joachim . Destined for deprivation: human capital formation and intergenerational poverty in nineteenth-century England . . 38 . 3 . 339–365 . 10.1006/exeh.2000.0765 . July 2001 . 18524044 .
- Humphries . Jane . Child labor: lessons from the historical experience of today's industrial economies . The World Bank Economic Review . 17 . 2 . 175–196 . 10.1093/wber/lhg016 . July 2001 . 16712334 . 10986/17178 . free .
- Humphries . Jane . Robeyns . Ingrid . Agarwal . Bina . Ingrid Robeyns . Bina Agarwal . Exploring the challenges of Amartya Sen's work and ideas: an introduction . Feminist Economics . 9 . 2–3 . 3–12 . 10.1080/1354570032000099039 . January 2003 . 51098991 .
- Humphries . Jane . Robeyns . Ingrid . Agarwal . Bina . Ingrid Robeyns . Bina Agarwal . Continuing the conversation . Feminist Economics . 9 . 2–3 . 319–332 . 10.1080/1354570032000089788 . January 2003 . 153917523 .
- Humphries . Jane . Himmelweit . Susan F. . Albelda . Randy P. . Susan Himmelweit . Randy Albelda . The dilemmas of lone motherhood: key issues for feminist economics . . 10 . 2 . 1–7 . 10.1080/1354570042000217694 . July 2004 . 154585874 .
- Humphries . Jane . Jacobsen . Joyce P. . Robb . Robert Edgecombe . Burton . Jonathan . Blackaby . David H. . Joshi . Heather . Wang . Xiaobo . Dong . Xiao-yuan . Heather Joshi . Explorations: The Status of Women Economists . . 12 . 3 . 427–474 . 10.1080/13545700600669667 . July 2006 . 154406329 .
- Humphries . Jane . Sarasúa . Carmen . Off the record: Reconstructing women's labor force participation in the European past . . 18 . 4 . 39–67 . 10.1080/13545701.2012.746465 . October 2012 . 153742758 .
- Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob (June 2015). "The Wages of Women in England, 1260–1850". Journal of Economic History. 75 (2): 405-447. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050715000662
- Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob (May 2019). "Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1850". Economic Journal. 129 (623), 2867-2887. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez017
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Humphries, Jane, 1948– . Library of Congress . 11 August 2014 . data sheet (b. 11-9-48) .
- Web site: Jane Humphries. Faculty of History, Oxford University. 1 September 2016.
- Web site: Professor Jane Humphries elected President of the Economic History Society . All Souls College, Oxford University . 1 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101203101034/http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/news_detail.php?news_id=32 . 3 December 2010 . 16 April 2010.
- Web site: 2013–2014 EHA Officers and Board of Trustees. Economic History Association. 15 April 2014.
- Online edition, Oxford University Press.
- Ph.D . Humphries . Katherine Jane . 1973 . The role of the manufacturing sector in economic development . . 64678496 .
- Web site: Professor Jane Humphries.
- Web site: Oxford Centre of Economic and Social History.
- Editorial Board – Associate Editors. Gender, Work & Organization. 15 April 2014. 10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0432.
- Web site: Editorial Board. Taylor and Francis. 15 April 2014.
- Web site: Waara . Anneli . Childhood and adolescence researchers awarded honorary doctorates . www.uu.se . Uppsala University, Sweden . 15 October 2015. 2 February 2016.
- Web site: 2019 Royal Economic Society Prize. www.res.org.uk. 31 March 2020 . 2020-04-10.