Board

Board

To be able to strengthen the field of historical demography it is important that also junior staff has a platform to interact with each other. The Association for Young Historical Demographers has a daily executive board which is responsible for addressing important issues of, and questions from, junior staff in the field of historical demography. Below you can find the current executive board:

President: Joris Kok (Radboud University)

Joris Kok is an economic historian and historical demographer with MSc degrees in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and in Economic History from Lund University. In his PhD research, Joris examined the social mobility and integration of Jews in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Amsterdam in the life domains of work, marriage, residence, and education. Joris was also involved in the project ‘Female Empowerment and Economic Growth: The Case of Sweden, 1749-2016’ in which he studied the relationship between gender equality, economic growth, and demographic change. Currently, Joris works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud University exploring the determinants of the historical decline in infectious disease mortality in Amsterdam.

Vice President: Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge)

Emma Diduch holds a BA in History from the College of William & Mary and a MSc in Economic and Social History from the University of Oxford. In 2021-2, she was an adjunct lecturer for Social Science Statistics at Mary Baldwin University. In 2022 she started a PhD at Cambridge focusing on the role of women’s labour force participation and textile employment in the fertility transition using a linked dataset of censuses, civil registration records, and factory archival sources from Derbyshire, England, 1881-1911.

Board member: Mathias Mølbak Ingholt (Roskilde University)

Mathias Mølbak Ingholt is a Research Associate at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge. His research, which is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the UK Research and Innovation, is focused on the influence of malaria on demographic development in British and Danish lowlands from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries. Previous work has focused on the 1918-1921 influenza pandemic in Denmark and Greenland. His academic interests include historical demography, agricultural history and medical history.

Board member: Mads Villefrance Perner (Roskilde University)

Mads Villefrance Perner holds a PhD in history from the University Copenhagen. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research fellow at the PandemiX Center, Roskilde University, working on social inequality and cause-specific mortality in Copenhagen during the epidemiological transition. Previous work has focused on early-life mortality, the history of cholera in Denmark, residential segregation in 19th century cities, as well as the demographic consequences of war in the 17th century. His main research interests include historical demography, methods of record linkage, as well as the use of spatial and quantitative methods in historical research.

Board member: Hampton Gaddy (London School of Economics)

Hampton Gaddy is a PhD student in economic history at the London School of Economics and a part-time research fellow at the Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC) at Oslo Metropolitan University. He holds a BA in Human Sciences and a MPhil in Sociology and Demography from the University of Oxford. His work focuses on estimating the mortality and fertility consequences of social and demographic crises. His PhD work focuses specifically on re-estimating the death toll of the 1918 influenza pandemic across the United States, using new methods and data sources.

Board member: Brayden Rothe (University of Minnesota)

Brayden Rothe is a social and demographic historian and social scientist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with emphasis on the Transregional United States and North America. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Minnesota and the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation receiving advanced training in population studies and demography. His work currently revolves around estimating the rapidly changing social and industrial landscape in America’s impact on fertility between 1850 and 1950.

 


Previous board members:

  • Louise Ludvigsen, President (2022-2024)
  • Elisabeth Mjaaland, Vice President (2022-2023)
  • Tim Riswick, President (2016-2022)
  • Evelien Walhout, Secretary (2018-2022)
  • Michal Raftakis, PR-Officer Website (2018-2022)
  • Sarah Rafferty, PR-Officer Social Media (2019-2022)
  • Ryohei Mogi, Vice-President (2019-2021)
  • Jeanne Cilliers, PR-Officer Newsletter (2016-2020)
  • Stephanie Thiehoff-Klages, PR-Officer Social Media (2016-2018)
  • Benjamin Matuzak, Vice-President (2016-2018)
  • Edward Morgan, PR-Officer Website (2016-2018)
  • Christa Matthys, Secretary (2016-2018)