2005-09-01

知名世界的历史人口研究权威、“剑桥小组”负责人RICHARD SMITH教授定于9月11日至16日来本中心访问，此期间将作一次学术讲座，并与本中心教师、研究生座谈，详细日程稍后公布，请留意。

RICHARD SMITH教授简介如下：
Professor Richard Michael Smith

Professor of Historical Demography and Geography and Director, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social structure, University of Cambridge
Born 3 January 1946, British nationality

Work
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Sir William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN
Tel: 01223 333196
e-mail rms20@cam.ac.uk

Education
BA (London) Honours Geography 1965-68 1st class
MA (Oxford) 1983
PhD (Cambridge (1974) English peasant life-cycles and social economic networks

Employment (histories)
1968-71 SSRC PhD Studentship St Catherine’s College, Cambridge
1971-73 Research Fellowship, University of Chicago
1971-74 Lectureship in demography, School of Environmental Studies, Plymouth Polytechnic
1974-76.1 Lecturer in Population Geography, University of Cambridge
1976-81 Senior Research Officer, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
1977-83 Fellow of Fitzwilliam College
1981-83 Assistant Director, Cambridge group for the History of population and Social Structure
1983-89 University Lecturer in Historical Demography, University of Oxford
1983-94 Fellow of All Souls College
1990-94 Reader in the History of Medicine and Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
1994-96 University Lecturer in Population History, University of Cambridge
1994- Director Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social structure
1994- Fellow of Downing College
1996-2003 Reader in Historical Demography, University of Cambridge
2003- Professor of Historical Geography and Demography, University of Cambridge
2004- Vice-Master, Downing College

Professional activities:
Joint-editor Social History of Medicine (1988-1993)
Co-editor Population Studies (1995-2001)
Joint editor Economic History Review (2001-present)

Honours
1991 Elected Fellow of British Academy
2003 Elected Fellow of University College London

Principal Research Grants held since 2001
Leverhulme Trust (2001-2004) ‘Inter- and intra-generational correlations of fertility and mortality in historic populations (£88.000)
Wellcome Trust (2001-2004) Life-course events and human longevity in European historical populations (£148,000)
Wellcome Trust (2003-2006) Mortality change in Shanghai 1945-present: An analysis of a death certification system (£45,000)
Pfizer (2000-2005) Demographic change and health status in China 1980-present (with Dr Zhongwei Zhao) £256,000)
ESRC (2003-2006) Tithe income, agrarian output and population change in southern England 1280-1480 (£137,000)

Principal monographs
(with Peter Laslett) Bastardy and its comparative history (1980)
Land, Kinship and Life-cycle (1984)
(with Lloyd Bonfield and Keith Wrightson) The World We Have Gained; Histories of Population and Social Structure (1986)
(with Margaret Pelling) Life, Death and the Elderly (1991)
(with Zvi Razi) Medieval Society and the Manor Court (1996)
(with Peregrine Horden) The Locus of Care: Families, communities, institutions and the provision of welfare since antiquity (1998)

Principal relevant publications since 1998

‘The English Peasantry 1250-1650’ in T. Scott (eds.) The Peasantries of Europe from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries (Longman, 1998), pp. 339-71
‘Ageing and well-being in early modern England: Pension trends and gender preferences under the Old Poor Law c. 1650-1800’ in P. Johnson and P. Thane (eds.) Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity (Routledge, 1998), pp. 64-95
‘Simulating the past SOCSIM and CAMSIM and their applications’, in J.T. Coppock (ed.) Information Technology and the Scholarly Disciplines (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 95-106
‘Welfare and the individual and the Group: Malthus and Externalities’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145 (2001), pp. 402-414
‘Plagues and People: The Long Demographic Cycle 1250-1670’ in P. Slack and R. Ward (eds) The Peopling of Britain: The Shaping of a Human Landscape (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 178-210
‘Social Institutions and demographic regimes in non-industrial societies: a comparative approach’ in H. Macbeth and P. Collinson (eds.) Human Population Dynamics: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 103-124
(with P. Solar) ‘An Old Poor Law for the New Europe? Reconciling local solidarity with labour mobility in early modern England’, in P. David and M. Thomas (eds) The Economic Future in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2003)m pp,. 463-477
‘The Social Malthus: Malthus, Welfare and Poverty’, in An-Magritt Jensen, Torbjon T. Knutsen (eds) Visiting Malthus (Abstrakt Forlag-As, Oslo) 2003, pp. 80-99
‘Historical demography’ in P. Demeny and G, McNicoll (eds) Encyclopaedia of Demography, vol 1, (Macmillan Reference, 2003), pp 484-490