August,
2000
CURRICULUM VITAE
Richard H. Steckel
Professor of Economics & of
Anthropology
Ohio State University and
Research Associate, National Bureau of
Economic Research
Office Phone: 614-292-5008 e-mail: steckel.1@osu.edu
PERSONAL: Born
June 28, 1944; U.S.A. Citizenship; Married, 2 children
EDUCATION: University of Chicago, M.A. (Economics), 1973; Ph.D. (Economics),
1977
University
of Oklahoma, M.A. (Economics), 1970; M.A. (Mathematics), 1970
Oberlin
College, A.B. (Economics), 1966
PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Backbone of History: A History of Health and Nutrition in the
Western Hemisphere,
edited with Jerome C. Rose (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
A Population History of North America, edited with Michael Haines (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Health and Welfare during
Industrialization,
edited with Roderick Floud (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern
White Fertility (New York:
Garland Press, 1985).
Rising Inequality: Trends in the Distribution of Wealth in
Industrializing New England, with Carolyn Moehling, Journal of Economic
History (forthcoming).
Tallest in the World: Native Americans
of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century, with Joseph Prince, American
Economic Review, forthcoming.
Childhood Mortality and Nutritional
Status as Indicators of the Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States, with
Michael R. Haines, Jahrbuch für Wirtschafts Geschichte (2000, No. 1),
43-59.
Alternative Indicators of Health and the
Quality of Life. In Jeff Madrick
(ed.), Unconventional Wisdom: Alternative Perspectives on the New Economy
(New York: Twentieth Century, 2000).
Pp. 189-206.
Industrialization and Health in
Historical Perspective. In David Leon
and Gill Walt (eds.), Poverty, Inequality and Health (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2000).
Childhood Mortality and Nutritional
Status as Indicators of Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits
in the United States (with Michael Haines), Jahrbuch für
Wirtschaftsgeschichte (forthcoming).
Measuring the South: Health, Height, and
Literary Myths, with Louis Ferleger.
In Robert Louis Paquette and Louis A. Ferleger (ed.), Slavery,
Secession, and Southern Economic History (Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, 2000). Pp. 163-77.
Diets Versus Diseases in the
Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A
Reply, Journal of Economic History 60 (2000), 247-59.
Nutritional Status in the Colonial
American Economy: An Anthropological
Perspective, William and Mary
Quarterly 56 (Jan. 1999), 31-52.
Demography of Slaves in the United
States, in Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller (eds.), Macmillan
Encyclopedia of World Slavery (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan,
1998). Pp. 248-50.
Mortality in the New World, in Paul
Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller (eds.), Macmillan Encyclopedia of World
Slavery (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1998). Pp. 613-14.
United States: Breeding of Slaves, in
Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. Miller (eds.), Macmillan Encyclopedia of World
Slavery (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1998). Pp. 920-21.
Strategic Ideas in the Rise of the New
Anthropometric History and Their Implications for Interdisciplinary Research, Journal
of Economic History 58 (1998), 803-21.
The Formative Period of the New
Anthropometric History. In John Komlos
and Timothy Cuff, eds., Classics in Anthropometric History (St.
Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag 1998). Pp. 1-22.
Migration and Political Conflict: Precincts in the Midwest on the Eve of the
Civil War, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28 (1998), 583-603.
Swedish Historical Heights Revisited: New Estimation Techniques and Results, with
Markus Heintel and Lars Sandberg. In
John Komlosand Joerg Baten (eds.), The Biological Standard of Living in
Comparative Perspective (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998). Pp. 449-58.
Skeletal Remains, Health, and
History: A Project on Long-Term Trends
in the Western Hemisphere, with Paul Sciulli and Jerome Rose. In John Komlos and Joerg Baten (eds.), The
Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective (Stuttgart: Franz
Steiner Verlag, 1998). Pp. 139-54.
Birth Weights and Stillbirths in
Historical Perspective, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 52, S1
(1998), 16-20.
Report of the IDECG Working Group on
Variation in Fetal Growth and Adult Disease, with L. Grivetti et al., European
Journal of Clinical Nutrition 52, S1 (1998), 102-03.
The African-American Population of the
United States, 1790-1920. In Michael
Haines and Richard H. Steckel (eds.), A Population History of North America
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Faulkners South: Is There Truth in Fiction? With Lou Ferleger. Journal of Mississippi History 60 (1998), 105-21.
Reprinted in Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (eds.), Reconstructing
History: The Emergence of a New
Historical Society (New York: Routledge, 1999). Pp.361-69.
Tall But Poor: Living Standards of Men and Women in Pre-Famine Ireland, with
Stephen Nicholas, Journal of European Economic History 26 (1997),
105-34.
Introduction, with Roderick Floud. In Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud
(eds.), Health and Welfare during Industrialization (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1997). Pp. 1-16.
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and
Economic Growth in the United States, with Dora Costa. In Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud
(eds.), Health and Welfare during Industrialization (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1997). Pp. 47-89.
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your
Health? Not in Sweden!, with Lars
Sandberg. In Richard H. Steckel and
Roderick Floud (eds.), Health and Welfare during Industrialization
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
Pp. 127-59.
Conclusions, with Roderick Floud. In Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud
(eds.), Health and Welfare during Industrialization (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1997). Pp. 423-49.
Economics of Slavery, in Seymour
Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman (eds.), A Historical Guide to World Slavery
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Pp. 179-84.
The Age at Leaving Home in the United
States, 1850-1860, Social Science History 20 (1997), 507-32.
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards
for Use in Historical Research, Historical Methods 29 (1996), 157-66.
Women, Work, and Health under Plantation
Slavery in the United States, in David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine
(eds.), More than Chattel: Black
Women and Slavery in the Americas.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. 43-60.
Stature and the Standard of Living, Journal
of Economic Literature 33 (December 1995):
1903-1940. Reprinted in John
Komlos and Timothy Cuff, eds., Classics in Anthropometric History (St.
Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag 1998). Pp. 63-114..
New Perspectives on the Standard of
Living, Challenge (September-October, 1995), pp. 12-18.
Census Manuscript Schedules Matched with
Property Tax Lists: A Source of
Information on Long-Term Trends in Wealth Inequality, Historical Methods
27 (1994), 71-85.
Heights and Health in the United States,
1710-1950. In John Komlos (ed.), Stature,
Living Standards, and Economic Development (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1994). Pp. 153-170.
Health and Nutrition in the American
Midwest: Evidence from the Height of
Ohio National Guardsmen, 1850-1910, with Donald Haurin. In John Komlos (ed.), Stature, Living
Standards, and Economic Development (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1994). Pp. 117-128.
The Slavery Period and Its Influence on
Family Change in the United States, in Elsa Berquo and Peter Xenos (eds.), Family
Systems and Cultural Change (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). Pp. 144-158.
Stature and Living Standards in the
United States. In Robert E. Gallman
and John Joseph Wallis (eds.), American Economic Growth and Standards of
Living Before the Civil War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1992). Pp. 265-308.
Work, Disease, and Diet in the Health
and Mortality of American Slaves. In
Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., Without Consent or
Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and
the Transition to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. 2 (New York: W.W. Norton,
1992). Pp. 489-507.
"The Nutrition and Health of Slaves
and Antebellum Southern Whites," with Robert A. Margo. In Robert William Fogel and Stanley L.
Engerman, eds., Without Consent or Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom, Technical
Papers, Vol. 2 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992). Pp. 508-521.
"Children and Choice: A Comparative Analysis of Slave and White
Fertility in the Antebellum South."
In Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., Without
Consent or Contract: Conditions of
Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. 2 (New
York: W.W. Norton, 1992). Pp. 369-392.
"The Fertility Transition in the
United States: Tests of Alternative
Hypotheses." In Claudia Goldin and
Hugh Rockoff (eds.), Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American
Economic History: A Volume to Honor
Robert W. Fogel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). Pp. 351-374.
"The Quality of Census Data for
Historical Inquiry: A Research
Agenda," Social Science History
15 (Winter 1991): 579-99.
"Heights and Living Standards of
English Workers during the Early Years of Industrialization, 1770-1815,"
with Stephen Nicholas, Journal of Economic History 51 (December
1991): 937-57. Reprinted in John Komlos
and Timothy Cuff, eds., Classics in Anthropometric History (St.
Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag 1998). Pp. 179-202.
"Heights, Living Standards, and
History: A Review Essay," Historical Methods 4 (Fall
1991): 183-87.
"Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation,
1850-1860," Review of Economics and Statistics, 72 (May 1990): 275-85.
"Hard Times in 19th-Century
Sweden: A Reply," with Lars
Sandberg, Explorations in Economic History 27 (January 1990): 114-121.
"Growth and Development in the
Antebellum South: Old Debates and New
Directions." In L. Ferleger (ed.), Agriculture and National
Development: Views on the Nineteenth
Century (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990). Pp. 163-87.
"The Remarkable Catch-Up Growth of
American Slaves," Growth, Genetics, and Hormones, 5 (June
1989): 4-6.
"Household Migration and Rural
Settlement in the United States, 1850-1860," Explorations in Economic
History 25 (April 1989): 190-218.
"Heights and Health in the United
States, 1710-1950." In J.M. Tanner
(ed.), Auxology 88: Proceedings of
the 5th International Auxology Congress, July 1988 (London: Smith-Gordon
and Company, 1989). Pp. 175-185.
"The Health and Mortality of Women
and Children, 1850-1860," Journal of Economic History 48 (June
1988): 333-345.
"Census Matching and Migration: A Research Strategy," Historical
Methods 21 (Spring 1988): 52-60.
"Overpopulation and Malnutrition
Rediscovered: Hard Times in
Nineteenth-Century Sweden", with Lars G. Sandberg, Explorations in
Economic History 25 (January 1988):
1-19.
"Growth Depression and
Recovery: The Remarkable Case of
American Slaves," Annals of Human Biology, 14 (March-April
1987): 111-132.
"Heights and Economic History: The Swedish Case," with Lars Sandberg, Annals
of Human Biology, 14 (March-April 1987):
101-110. Reprinted in John
Komlos and Timothy Cuff, eds., Classics in Anthropometric History (St.
Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag 1998). Pp. 324-35.
"A Dreadful Childhood: The Excess Mortality of American
Slaves," Social Science History 10 (Winter 1986): 427-465.
Reprinted in Kenneth Kiple (ed), The African Exchange
(Durham: Duke University Press,
1987). Pp. 195-234; and in Paul
Finkelman (ed.), Medicine, Nutrition, Demography, and Slavery (New York:
Garland Press, 1989). Pp. 291-329.
"A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of
American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity," Journal of Economic
History 46 (September 1986):
721-41.
"Birth Weights and Infant Mortality
among American Slaves," Explorations in Economic History 23 (April
1986): 173-198.
"New Evidence on the Causes of Slave
and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade" with Richard Jensen, Journal
of Economic History 46 (March 1986):
57-77.
"Secular Changes in American and
British Stature and Nutrition" with Robert Fogel et al., Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 14 (Autumn 1983): 445-481.
"Heights of Native Born Whites
during the Antebellum Period" with Robert Margo, Journal of Economic
History 43 (March 1983):
167-174. Reprinted in John
Komlos and Timothy Cuff, eds., Classics in Anthropometric History (St.
Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag 1998). Pp. 351-59..
"Height and Per Capita Income,"
Historical Methods 16 (Winter 1983):
1-7. Reprinted in John Komlos and Timothy Cuff, eds., Classics in
Anthropometric History (St. Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag
1998). Pp. 115-28.
"The Economic Foundations of
East-West Migration during the Nineteenth Century," Explorations in
Economic History 20 (January 1983):
14-36.
"The Heights of American
Slaves: New Evidence on Slave Nutrition
and Health" with Robert Margo, Social Science History 6 (Fall
1982): 516-538. Reprinted in John
Komlos and Timothy Cuff, eds., Classics in Anthropometric History (St.
Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag 1998). Pp. 484-504.
"The Fertility of American
Slaves," Research in Economic History 7 1982): 239-286.
"Soldier, Soldier, What Made You
Grow So Tall? A Study of Height,
Health, and Nutrition in Sweden, 1720-1881" with Lars Sandberg, Economy
and History 23 (1980): 91-105.
"Antebellum Southern White
Fertility: A Demographic and Economic
Analysis," Journal of Economic History 40 (June 1980): 331-350.
"Slave Marriage and the
Family," Journal of Family History 5 (Winter 1980): 406-421.
"Miscegenation and the American
Slave Schedules," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11 (Autumn
1980): 251-263.
"Slave Height Profiles from
Coastwise Manifests," Explorations in Economic History 16 (October
1979): 363-380. Reprinted in John Komlos and Timothy Cuff,
eds., Classics in Anthropometric History (St. Katharinen, Germany:
Scripta Mercaturae Verlag 1998). Pp.
505-24.
"Slave Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation
Records," Social Science History 3 (October 1979): 86-114; reprinted in Robert William Fogel
and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., Without Consent or Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition
to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. 2 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992). Pp. 393-412.
"The Economics of U.S. Slave and
Southern White Fertility," Journal of Economic History 38 (March
1978): 289-291.
"The Age of Slaves at Menarche and
their First Birth" with James Trussell, Journal of Interdisciplinary
History 8 (Winter 1978): 477-505; reprinted in Robert William Fogel and
Stanley L. Engerman, eds., Without Consent or Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition
to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. 2 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992). Pp. 435-454; and in John Komlos and Timothy
Cuff, eds., Classics in Anthropometric History (St. Katharinen, Germany:
Scripta Mercaturae Verlag 1998). Pp.
525-53.
Book Reviews
The Atlantic Slave trade.
By Herbert S. Klein. Journal of
Economic Literature (forthcoming).
Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum U.S., 1840-1860.
By Joseph P. Ferrie. EH.NET book
reviews, August, 1999.
Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan.
By Carl Mosk. Journal of
Economic Literature 36 (1998), 968-69.
Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.
By Wilma King. Georgia
Historical Quarterly 80 (1996), 662-63.
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies, and Peoples
in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Edited by Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L.
Engerman. International Journal of
African Historical Studies 28 (1995), 443-45.
To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the
Antebellum North. By Lee A. Craig. Business History Review 68 (1994), 150-151.
Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America.
By Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22 (Autumn
1992): 405-406.
Height, Health, and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom,
1750-1980. By Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and
Annabel Gregory. Population and
Development Review, 17 (December 1991):
737-739.
Nutrition and Economic Development in the
Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An
Anthropometric History. By John Komlos. Journal of Economic Literature 29 (Sept. 1991): 1208-09.
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old
South, By Michael Tadman. Journal
of Economic History, 51 (Mar. 1991):
232-33.
Society and Family Strategy: Erie County, New York, 1850-1860, By
Mark J. Stern. Journal of Economic
History 48 (1988): 492-493.
Rights of Passage: Emigration to Australia in the Nineteenth
Century, By Helen R.
Woolcock. Bulletin of the History of
Medicine 62 (1988): 324-25.
Medicine and American Growth, 1800-1860, by James H. Cassedy. Journal of Economic History 47
(1987): 834-35.
Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America, by David W. Galenson. Journal of Economic History, 47
(1987): 550-52.
People, Food, and Resources, by Kenneth Blaxter. Agricultural History, 61 (1987): 96-97.
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880-1960, by Carl Mosk. Journal of Economic History, 47 (1987): 546-47.
The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History by Kenneth F. Kiple. Agricultural History 60 (1986): 96-97.
Virginia Slave Trade Statistics by Walter Minchinton, Celia King, and
Peter Waite. Journal of Economic
History 45 (1985): 999.
Demographic Dimensions of the New
Republic: American Interregional
Migration, Vital Statistics, and Manumissions, 1800-1900 by Peter D. McClelland and Richard J.
Zeckhauser. Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 15 (1984):
161-163.
A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the
Slave Economy by Fred
Bateman and Thomas Weiss. American
Journal of Sociology (1983):
998-1000.
Other Publications
Industrialization and Health in
Historical Perspective, NBER Working Paper Series on Historical Factors in
Long Run Growth, No. 118, August 1999
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the
Nineteenth Century, with Joseph Prince, NBER Working Paper Series on
Historical Factors in Long Run Growth, No. 112, December 1998.
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and
Economic Growth in the United States, with Dora L. Costa, NBER Working Paper
Series on Historical Factors in Long Run Growth, No. 76, November 1995.
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards
for Use in Historical Research, NBER Working Paper Series on Historical
Factors in Long Run Growth, No. 75, October 1995.
"Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal
Survey," with Jayanthi Krishnan, NBER Working Paper No. 4137, August 1992
(Cambridge, MA).
"Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in
Pre-Famine Ireland," with S. Nicholas, NBER Working Paper Series on
Historical Factors in Long Run Growth, No. 39, August 1992 (Cambridge , MA).
Also distributed as School of Economics Discussion Paper, The University of New
South Wales, June 1992 (Kensington, NSW).
"Stature and Living Standards in the
United States, NBER Working Paper Series on Historical Factors in Long Run
Growth, No. 24, April 1991.
"Heights and Health of Workers
during the Early Years of British Industrialization, 1770 - 1815," Australian National University Working Paper
No. 142, August, 1990 (Canberra, Australia).
"Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation,
1850-1860," National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper Series on Historical Factors in Long Run
Growth, No. 8, December 1989 (Cambridge, MA).
"Household Migration, Urban Growth,
and Industrialization: The United
States, 1850-1860," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No.
2281, June 1987 (Cambridge, MA).
"Birth Weights and Infant Mortality
among American Slaves," National Bureau of Economic Research Reprint No.
772, October 1986 (Cambridge, MA).
"Dimensions and Determinants of
Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves," National
Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 1662, July 1985 (Cambridge, MA).
"Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates
from the Heights of Children: The Case
of American Slaves," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper
No. 1628, June 1985 (Cambridge, MA).
"Determinants of Slave and Crew
Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade," with Richard A. Jensen, National
Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 1540, January 1985 (Cambridge,
MA).
"The Economic Foundation of
East-West Migration during the Nineteenth Century", National Bureau of
Economic Research Reprint No. 360, April 1983 (Cambridge, MA).
"Height and Per Capita Income",
National Bureau of Economic Research Reprint No. 354, February 1983 (Cambridge,
MA).
"Changes in American and British
Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century:
A Preliminary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height for the
Analysis of Secular Trends in Nutrition, Labor Productivity, and Labor
Welfare", National Bureau of Economics Research Working Paper No. 890,
with Robert Fogel et al., May 1982 (Cambridge, MA).
"The Economic Foundations of
East-West Migration during the Nineteenth Century," National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper No. 881, April 1982 (Cambridge, MA).
"Height and Per Capita Income",
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 880, April 1982
(Cambridge, MA).
Papers in Progress
Bioarcheology and the Reinterpretation
of the Past: A History of Health and
Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere (with Jerome C. Rose, Paul Sciulli, and
others).
"Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the NLS" (with Jayanthi
Krishnan).
"Human Heights, Economic Conditions
and Demographic Change in Sweden, 1720-1914" (with Lars Sandberg).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Honors and Awards
Distinguished Scholar Award, Ohio State
University, 2000.
Vice-President, Economic History
Association, 1999-2000
Nominating Committee, and Audit
Committee, Economic History Association, 1999-2000.
Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow, awarded for
1999-2002 by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ohio State
University ($15,000 in research funds).
Chair of Program Committee, Economic
History Association meetings, 1999.
The Historical Society, Board of
Governors, 1998-
Recognized faculty member, Annual Salute
to Undergraduate Achievement, February 24, 1998
National Science Foundation, 1998-1999
(SBR-9806872), The Rise to Preeminence of the New York Stock Exchange,
Dissertation Improvement Grant with Sonali Garg. ($11,712)
Economic
History Association, Committee on Research in Economic History, 1995-1997
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
1997-1998, Health, Nutrition, and Well-being in the United States. ($34,839).
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for
Economic Studies, University of Munich, July, 1997
Ohio State University Distinguished
Lecturer, spring 1998
Research on stature and my photo featured
in cover story of TIME magazine, European edition, October 14, 1996, Pacific
edition November 11, 1996
National Science Foundation grant for
1995-1999 (SBR-9423435) on A Second Conference on Health and Nutrition in the
Western Hemisphere (with Jerry Rose and Paul Sciulli). ($35,210).
L. Edwin Smart award for Excellence in Economics
Instruction, 1995.
National Science Foundation grant for
1994. Additional study of A History of
Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere. ($6,300).
Charles Warren Fellow, Harvard
University, 1993-1994
National Science Foundation Grant for
1993-1994 (SBR-9223781). "A History of Health and Nutrition in the Western
Hemisphere" (with Jerry Rose and Paul Sciulli). ($70,676).
Ohio State University Research grant for
1993 (combined support of Economics Department, Anthropology Department, and
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences).
"A History of Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere"
(with Jerry Rose and Paul Sciulli).
($30,000).
National Science Foundation Grant for
1992 (SES-9246357). Additional study of
"Wealth Inequality in the U.S., 1820-1910." ($15,000).
Chair, Nominating Committee, Social
Science History Association, 1991-1992.
Elected to the Executive Committee,
Social Science History Association, 1992-1995.
Fellow, St. George Tucker Society for
Southern Studies, 1991-
National Science Foundation grant for
1991 (SES-9122080). Additional study of
"Wealth Inequality in the U.S., 1820-1910." ($12,000).
Ohio State University Curriculum
Development Grant for summer 1990, "The American Economy in the Twentieth
Century." ($5,933).
Ohio State University Small Research
Grant, "Strategies for the Study of Diet, Disease, Work, and
History." August 1990 ($3,000).
Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research, "Diet, Disease, Work, and History: Techniques of Physical Anthropology and
Historical Methods in the Reinterpretation of the Past." October, 1990 ($2,000).
National Science Foundation grant for
1990-1992 (SES-8922080). "An
Analysis of Wealth Inequality in the U.S., 1820-1910." ($70,616).
Elected to the Conference on Research in
Income and Wealth, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989-
Co-Organizer National Bureau of Economic
Research Summer Institute on Development of the American Economy, 1989, 1990.
Editorial Board, Annals of Human
Biology, 1998-2000.
Editorial Board, Social Science
History, 1988-1995.
Editorial Board, Journal of Economic
History, 1989-1993.
Editorial Board, Historical Methods,
1990-1994.
Editorial Board, Explorations in
Economic History, 1990-1996.
Visiting Research Fellow, Flinders
University of South Australia, Summer 1988.
Ford Foundation grant for 1986,
"Migration Patterns in Historical Perspective," ($4,167).
Walgreen Foundation grant for 1985-1986,
"The Heights and Health of American Slaves," ($7,500).
Visiting Scholar, Economics Department,
Harvard University, 1985-86.
National Science Foundation grant
(SES-8410660) for 1984-1986, "The Economic Foundations of Migration
Patterns, 1800-1900," ($78,500).
College of Social and Behavior Sciences
Research grant for 1985, "The Distribution of Wealth in Ohio,
1830-1900," with Donald Haurin ($1500).
Program Committee, Social Science History
Association Meetings, 1983, 1985; Chairman, 1986.
University Small Research Grant for 1983,
"The Causes of Mortality Rates in the Atlantic Slave Trade", with
Richard Jensen ($950)
Elected a Research Associate of the
National Bureau of Economic Research, April 1982-present
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Research Grant for 1980, "Migration Patterns in Nineteenth Century
America", ($300)
University Small Research Grant for 1978,
"Slave Height Profiles and their Significance for Study of the Slave
Population," ($2,414)
Elected to the Columbia University
Seminar in Economic History, 1977-
Conference Participation
19th
International Congress of Historical Sciences, Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the
Nineteenth Century, (with Joseph Prince).
Oslo, August 12, 2000.
New Evidence
on the Standard of Living in Preindustrial Europe and Asia. Health and Nutrition in Preindustrial
Europe. Arild, Sweden, August 1-5,
2000
American
Association of Physical Anthropologists, A Geographic Information System
Analysis of Variation in Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere,(with
Phillip Walker), San Antonio, April 15, 2000.
Social
Science History Association meetings.
Health, Nutrition and Physical Well-Being. Ft. Worth, TX, November 11, 1999.
International
Commission on Historical Demography, Tallest in the World: Native Americans of
the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century, (with Joseph Prince). Oslo, June 10-14, 1999.
Economic
History Association meetings, Baltimore, MD, October 8, 1999, co-chair of
session on Fire and Ice: Historical
Sciences and Economic History.
NBER Summer Institute,
Cambridge, MA, July 12, 1999, Long-Term Trends in American Wealth
Inequality: Evidence from Property Tax
Records, with Carolyn Moehling.
Ninth Annual
Public Health Forum, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London,
April 19-23, 1999. Industrialization
and Health in Historical Perspective.
Social
Science History Association meetings, Chicago, November 20, 1998, Measuring
Health Status using Skeletal Remains (with Paul Sciulli and Jerome Rose).
Twelfth
International Economic History Congress, Madrid, August 1998, Skeletal
Remains, Health, and History: A Project on Long Term Trends in the Western
Hemisphere.
American
Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Salt Lake City, April
2, 1998, A Health Index from Skeletal Remains.
National
Bureau of Economic Research program meeting, March 7, 1998, Tax Records and
the Distribution of Wealth, 1820-1910.
Organizer
(with Jerome Rose) of a symposium (14 papers) on The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western
Hemisphere, presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists
annual meeting, Salt Lake City, April 2, 1998.
Organizer
(with Carolyn Moehling and Samuel Williamson) of the All-Ohio Economic History
Seminar, 1997-
Social
Science History Association, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1997. Strategic Ideas in the Rise of the New
Anthropometric History and their Implications for Interdisciplinary Research.
Economic History Association, New
Brunswick, NJ, Sept. 13, 1997. A
Health Index from Skeletal Remains.
Third World Congress of Cliometrics,
Munich, July 1997. Chair of session on
Health and Nutrition.
Pre-conference for the International
Economic History Congress. Munich,
Germany, January 17, 1997. The Rise of
Anthropometric History: Key
Ingredients.
Pre-conference for the International
Economic History Congress. Munich,
Germany, January 18, 1997. Measuring
the Standard of Living using Skeletal Remains.
American Economic Association. New Orleans. La., January 6, 1996. Chair of session on Long-term Changes in
Labor Conditions.
IDECG/IUNS Workshop. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 11-15,
1996. Birth Weights and Stillbirths in
Historical Perspective.
Social Science History Association,
October 11-13, 1996. Explaining the
Height Decline in the Late Nineteenth Century:
Evidence for the Ohio National Guard.
Social Science History Association,
October 11-13, 1996. Discussant for
session on Biological Standard of Living in the Twentieth Century.
National Bureau of Economic Research
Summer Institute, July 9, 1996. The
Backbone of History: Health and
Nutrition in the Western Hemisphre.
Conference on A History of Health and
Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, Columbus, OH, March 8, 1996, The Health
of Slaves and Free Blacks in the East (with Ted Rathbun).
Conference on A History of Health and
Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, Columbus, OH, March 8, 1996, A Health
Index from Skeletal Remains (with Paul Sciulli, and Jerome Rose.
Co-organizer (with Jerome Rose) of an
NSF-sponsored conference on A History of Health and Nutrition in the Western
Hemisphere, Columbus, OH March 7-10, 1996.
Social Science History Association
meetings, November 16, 1995. The
Health of American Slaves: New Evidence
and Analysis.
Social Science History Association
meetings, November 16, 1995. Chair of
session on Bioarcheology and the Reinterpretation of the Past.
Conference on The Economy of Early
British America: The Domestic Sector,
Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., October 1995. Nutritional Status in the Colonial American Economy: An Anthropological Perspective.
National Bureau of Economic Research
conference on Health and Welfare during Industrialization, April 21, 1995. Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your
Health? Not in Sweden! (with Lars
Sandberg).
National Bureau of Economic Research
conference on Health and Welfare during Industrialization, April 21, 1995. Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and
Economic Growth in the United States (with Dora Costa).
Co-organizer, with Roderick Floud, of
NBER conference on Health and Welfare during Industrialization. Cambridge, MA, April 21-22, 1995.
American Historical Association meetings,
January 6, 1995. Stature and the
Standard of Living.
Social Science History Association
meetings, October 14, 1994. Stature
and the Standard of Living.
Co-organizer, pre-conference on Health
and Welfare during Industrialization.
Cambridge, MA, July 11-12, 1994.
American Economic Association meetings,
January 5, 1994. Commentator on session
on Understanding Collective Action and Outcomes.
Social Science History Association
meetings, November 5, 1993. The Age at
Leaving Home in the United States, 1850-1860.
Organizer, conference on A History of Health
and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere.
Columbus, Ohio, September 15-19, 1993
St. George Tucker Society meetings,
August 13, 1993. Health, Height and
Faulkner (with Louis Ferleger).
National Bureau of Economic Research
Summer Institute, July 14, 1993.
Trends in Poverty and Inequality:
Evidence from Tax Records for
Massachusetts and Ohio, 1820-1910.
American Historical Association meetings,
December 27, 1992. "Bioarcheology and the Reinterpretation of the
Past: A Research Project on the History
of Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere."
Social Science History Association
meetings, November 6, 1992, "Trends in Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from Tax Records for Massachusetts
and Ohio, 1820-1910."
Commentator, Economic History Association
meetings, September 20, 1992, session on "Consuming Longevity and
Health: Children and Adults."
National Bureau of Economic Research
Summer Institute, July 1992, "Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal
Survey."
Discussant, Cliometrics Conference, Miami
University, May 1992.
Chair, session on "Physical
Anthropology and Historical Research," Social Science History Association
meetings, New Orleans, November 2, 1991.
"Bioarcheology and the
Reinterpretation of the Past: A Research
Project on the History of Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere,"
given at the Social Science History Association meetings, New Orleans, November
1, 1991.
Commentator, roundtable session on Yankee
Destinies by Peter Knights, Social Science History Association meetings, New
Orleans, November 2, 1991.
Commentator, session on "Recent
Research on Slavery," Social Science History Association meetings,
Minneapolis, October 1990.
Organizer of conference on "Diet,
Disease, Work, and History: Techniques of Physical Anthropology and Historical
Methods in the Reinterpretation of the Past" held at Ohio State
University, November 10-11, 1990.
"Stature and Living Standards in the
United States," given at the National Bureau of Economic Research
conference on Living Standards in Early 19th Century America, Cambridge, MA,
July 20-22, 1990.
Discussant, Cliometrics Conference,
University of Illinois, May 1990.
Chair of session on "New Evidence of
Underenumeration in the U.S. Census," Social Science History Association
meetings, Washington, November 1989.
Commentator in a roundtable on Way of
Death: Merchant Capitalism and the
Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830, Social Science History Association meetings,
Washington, November 1989
"The Health of Slaves in the United
States: Evidence by Region and Time
Period," given at the American Historical Association meetings,
Cincinnati, December 1988.
"The Age at Leaving Home: A View
from Families Matched in Census Manuscript Schedules," given at the Social
Science History Association meetings, Chicago, November 1988.
"Migration and Political
Conflict: The Midwest on the Eve of the
Civil War," given at the Social Science History Association meetings,
Chicago, November 1988.
Commentator, session on Colonial
Demography, Social Science History Association meetings, Chicago, November
1988.
"Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation,
1850-1860" given at the AEA meetings, Chicago, December 1987.
"The Health and Mortality of Women
and Children: Survival in a National
Sample of Linked Households, 1850-1860" given at the Economic History
Association Meetings, San Francisco, September 1987.
"Household Migration and Rural Settlement
in the United States, 18501860" given at the NBER Summer Institute on
Development of the American Economy, Cambridge, MA, July 1987.
Discussant, Cliometrics Conference,
University of Illinois, May 1987.
"The Slavery Period and Its
Influence on Family Change: USA" given at the Seminar on Changing Family
Structures and Life Courses in LDC'S, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 1987.
"Recent and Future Developments in
the Demography of American Slaves" given at a conference on "New
Directions for Demographic History: A French-American Round Table," New
York, October 31 - November 2, 1986.
"Dimensions and Determinants of
Migration during the Mid-Nineteenth Century:
A Preliminary View from a National Sample," given at the Social
Science History Association meetings, St. Louis, October 1719, 1986.
"The Nutrition, Health, and
Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity" and
"Overpopulation and Malnutrition Rediscovered: Hard Times in
Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (with Lars Sandberg) given at the Social Science
History Association meetings, Chicago, November 23 and 24, 1985.
Chairman of Session on Studies in
Migration, annual meeting of Society for Historians of the Early American
Republic, Washington, D.C., July 25-27, 1985.
Discussant Annual Cliometrics Conference,
Northwestern University, May 30-June 2, 1985.
"Determinants of Slave and Crew
Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade" given at the Population Association
of 5America Meetings, Boston, April 27, 1985.
Participant at NBER conference on
"The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1640-1910," Cambridge,
Mass., May 24-27, 1984.
Chairman of session on Demographic
Economics at Cliometrics Conference, Miami University, May 18-20, 1984.
Chairman of session on "Migration
and the Life Cycle," Social Science History Association meetings,
Washington, D.C., October 27-29, 1983.
Legal Institute for Economists, sponsored
by the Emory University Law and Economics Center, June 19-July 1, 1983.
"Height, Health, Nutrition, and
Labor Productivity in the Antebellum South," and "Height, Nutrition,
and Mortality in Ohio 1870-1900", given at the National Bureau of Economic
Research Conference on Development of the American Economy, Cambridge, Mass.,
January 2022, 1983.
Discussant, Social Science History
Association Meetings, Bloomington, Ind., November 5, 1982
"Heights of Native Born Northern
Whites during the Antebellum Period," given at the Economic History
Association meetings, September 24, 1982
Discussant, American Economics
Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., December 29, 1981
"Migration and Political Conflict
During the Nineteenth Century," given at the Social Science History
Association meetings, Nashville, October 22, 1981
Discussant, Social Science History
Association meetings, Rochester, N.Y., November 9, 1980
"The Determinants of Adult Height in
the Antebellum United States: Evidence from Coastwise Manifests and Civil War
Muster Rolls," given (with Robert Margo) at the Social Science History
Association meetings, Cambridge, November 2, 1979
Discussant at the Annual Cliometrics
Conference, University of Chicago, June 7-9, 1979
"Slave Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation
Records," given at the Social Science History Association meetings, Ann
Arbor, October 22, 1979
"The Economics of U.S. Slave and
Southern White Fertility," given at the dissertation session of the
Economic History Association meetings, new Orleans, September 15, 1977
"The Estimation of the Mean Age of
Female Slaves at the Time of Menarche and Their First Birth," given at the
Population Association of America meetings, St. Louis, April 22, 1977.
Discussant at the Annual Cliometerics
Conference, University of Wisconsin, April 24, 1976
"Marriage Market Characteristics, Economic
Opportunity, and Fertility Among Antebellum Southern Whites," given at the
NSF-N.S.S.B. conference on Behavioral Models in Historical Demography, The
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 25, 1974.
"Slave Marriage, Fertility, and
Society," given at the Economic Historians of Wisconsin meeting,
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, May 4, 1974
"U.S. Slave and Southern White
Fertility: A Preliminary View,"
given at the Annual Cliometrics Conference, University of Wisconsin, April 26,
1973
Workshops Given at Other Universities
Harvard University, October 1, 1999, The
Backbone of History: Health and
Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere.
University of Illinois, November 13,
1998, Tallest in the World: Native
Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century (with Joseph Prince).
Northwestern University, November 12,
1998, Tallest in the World: Native
Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century (with Joseph Prince).
McGill University, October 15, 1998,
Tallest in the World: Native Americans
of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century (with Joseph Prince).
Queens University, October 14, 1998,
Tallest in the World: Native Americans
of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century (with Joseph Prince).
University of
Toronto, October 13, 1998, Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century
(with Joseph Prince).
University of Munich, July 23, 1997. Industrialization in the United
states: Characteristics, Causes, and
Consequences.
University of Munich, July 22, 1997. Migration Patterns in the United States
during the Nineteenth Century.
University of Munich, July 15, 1997. Slavery in the United States: International Demographic Perspectives.
University of Munich, July 8, 1997. The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the United
States.
University of Kansas, April 4, 1997. Measuring Living Standards using Skeletal
Remains.
Stanford-Berkeley Economic History
workshop, February 6, 1997. Measuring
Living Standards using Skeletal Remains.
University of Illinois, October 25,
1996. Measuring Living Standards using
Skeletal Remains.
Indiana University, October 24,
1996. Measuring Living Standards using
Skeletal Remains.
Oberlin College, September 24, 1996. Why Economic Growth? Very Long-Term Trends in Standards of
Living.
University of Toledo, May 31, 1996. Very Long Term trends in the Standard of
Living: Health and Nutrition in the
Western Hemisphere.
Harvard University, April 27, 1994. A Dreadful Childhood: Regional Characteristics and Temporal
Patterns in the Health of American Slaves.
Tulane University, April 8, 1994. Stature and the Standard of Living.
Colby College, March 10, 1994. Bioarcheology and the Reinterpretation of
the Past: A History of Health and
Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere.
Colby College, March 9, 1994. Stature and the Standard of Living.
Miami University (Ohio), March 3,
1994. Stature and the Standard of
Living.
Miami University (Ohio), March 4,
1994. Long-Term Trends in Wealth
Inequality and Mobility in America.
Harvard University, February 11,
1994. Bioarcheology and the
Reinterpretation of the Past: A History
of Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere (with Jerome C. Rose and
Clark Spencer Larsen).
University of Rochester, December 9,
1993. Stature and the Standard of
Living.
University of Illinois, April 16,
1993. "Trends in Poverty and
Inequality: Evidence from Tax Records
for Massachusetts and Ohio, 1820-1910."
Northwestern University, April 15, 1993. "Trends in Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from Tax Records for Massachusetts and Ohio,
1820-1910."
Harvard University, February 5,
1993. "Trends in Poverty and
Inequality: Evidence from Tax Records
for Massachusetts and Ohio, 1820-1910."
Washington Area Economic History Seminar,
November 13, 1992. "Trends in
Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from
Tax Records for Massachusetts and Ohio, 1820-1910."
Vanderbilt University, March 11,
1992. "Wealth Mobility in
America: A View from the NLS."
Research Triangle Economic History
Workshop, April 10, 1991. "The
Fertility Transition in the United States:
Tests of Alternative Hypotheses."
University of Pittsburgh, March 19, 1991.
"The Demography of Slavery: An Overview."
University of Pennsylvania, February 27,
1990. "Heights as a Measure of
Living Standards: A Window to the Past
and a Device for the Present."
University of Texas, Austin, November 28,
1989. "The Health of Slaves in the
United States: Evidence by Region and
Time Period."
Stanford University, November 8,
1989. "Banks and Occupations in
the Fertility Transition of the United States."
University of California, Berkeley,
November 7, 1989. "Banks and
Occupations in the Fertility Transition of the United States."
U.C.L.A., November 6, 1989. "Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation,
1850-1860."
University of Illinois, April 14,
1989. "Fertility and Family
Limitation: The United States at the
Mid-Nineteenth Century."
Colgate University, November 8,
1988. "Poverty and
Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of
Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860."
Australian National University, September
6, 1988. "Heights, Health, and
Mortality: Insights from American Slave
Demography."
University of New South Wales, September
5, 1988. "Heights and Health in
the United States, 1710-1950."
Flinders University of South Australia,
August 16, 1988. "Household
Migration and Rural Settlement in the United States, 1850-1860."
University of Chicago, February 26,
1988. "Poverty and
Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of
Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860."
Northwestern University, February 25,
1988. "Poverty and Prosperity: A
Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860."
University of South Carolina, April 9,
1988. "A Dreadful Childhood: The
Health of American Slaves.
Emory University, April 8, 1988. "Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation,
1850-1860."
Indiana University, October 22,
1987. "Poverty and
Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of
Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860."
Columbia University, May 7, 1987. "Household Migration, Urban Growth, and
Industrialization: The United States,
1850-1860."
University of Pennsylvania, April 16,
1986. "A Peculiar Population: The
Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to
Maturity."
Harvard University, Population Studies
Center, February, 1986. "Heights as a Measure of Living Standards: A Window to the Past."
Harvard University, Economics Department,
November 15, 1986. "The Nutrition,
Health, and Mortality of American Slaves:
Were the Abolitionists Right?"
Harvard University, Charles Warren
Center, November 6, 1985. "The
Survival of Slaves: A Report on
Nutrition and Time on the Cross."
Indiana University, January 24,
1985. "Determinants of Slave and
Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade."
Brigham Young University Nov. 9,
1984. "Determinants of Slave and
Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade."
Emory University, September 10,
1982. "The Economic Foundations of
East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century."
University of Illinois, January 29,
1982. "Migration and Political
Conflict during the Nineteenth Century."
Harvard University, February 25,
1974. "Slave Marriage, Fertility
and Society."
University of Chicago, Jan. 27,
1984. "Adversity and
Diversity: The Nutrition, Health and
Mortality of American Slaves from Conception to Maturity."
Indiana University, January 28,
1982. "Migration and Political
Conflict during the Nineteenth Century."
Harvard University, February 20,
1981. "Nineteenth Century
Migration Patterns and Their Implications."
University of Chicago, November 21,
1980. "Nineteenth Century
Migration Patterns and their Implications."
University of Chicago, February
1975. "The Economics of U.S. Slave
and Southern White Fertility."
University of Chicago, March 31,
1975. "Marriage Market
Characteristics, Economic Opportunity, and Fertility among Antebellum Southern
Whites."
University of Chicago, May 16, 1975. "New Evidence and Analysis of Slave
Age-Specific Death Rates."
Memberships
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Economic History Association
Economic History Society
Cliometrics Society
European Historical Economics Society
Population Association of America
Social Science History Association
American Historical Association
American Association of Physical
Anthropologists
The Historical Society
PUBLIC SERVICE
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Review, Social Science History, Historical Methods, Explorations in Economic
History, Demography, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Economic
History, Annals of Human Biology, Journal of Human Biology, Review of Economics
and Statistics, Economic Journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change,
Journal of Southern History, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University
Press, National Bureau of Economic Research, Longman Publishing, Social Science
Research Council of Canada.
Economic History General Examination
Committees
Econometrics General Examination
Committees
Economic Development General Examination
Committee
Statistics-Econometrics Qualifier
Committees
Economics Department Advisor on Computer
Affairs, 1979-1985
Economics Department Tenure Committee,
1981-1982
Economics Department Affirmative Action
Committee, 1981-1983
Economics Department Faculty Search
Committee: 1990-1991; Chairman, 1981-1983
Economics Department Self-Study
Committee, 1979-1983
Behavioral Sciences Laboratory Advisory
Committee, 1982-1983
Dissertation Committees for Dallas
Batten; William Gavin; Yu-Hsia Chen; Kirsten Keith; Scott Hunt; Gigi Escoe;
Yunhua Liu; John Murray (chair); Sophia Twarog (chair); Timothy Cuff (Univ. of
Pittsburgh); William White (chair); Sonali Garg (chair).
Council on Research and Graduate Studies,
1987-1991
Graduate School Lecture Series Committee,
1987-1988
Director of Undergraduate Studies,
1988-1993
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Committee on Curricular Affairs, 1988-; Chair, 1990-1991.
Chair of the Curriculum Committee of the
Council on Research and Graduate Studies, 1988-1989.
Honors Curriculum Study Group, 1989.
Advisor, Undergraduate Economics Society,
1989-1993
Vice-Chairperson (1989-1990) and
Chairperson (1990-1991), Faculty Senate of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences.
Chairperson of the Subcommittee on the
Role and Nature of the Doctoral Dissertation, Coucnil on Research and Graduate
Studies, 1989-1990.
Chairperson of the Subcommittee on the
General Examination for the Ph.D, Council on Research and Graduate Studies,
1990-1991.
Chairperson of the Subcomittee on Review
of Major and Minor Programs, Social and Behavioral Sciences Committee on
Curricular Affairs, 1989.
Ohio State University Interdisciplinary
Task Force, 1990-1991.
Chairperson, Nominating Committee of the
Council on Research and Graduate Studies, 1991.
Chairperson, Anthropology Department
Chair Search Committee, 1992.
Search Committee, Director of English as
a Second Language Programs, Ohio State University, 1993.
Interviewed by BBC for Horizons
program on Bones of Contention, October, 1994.
Graduate School Fellowship Committee,
1994-1996.
Outside Examiner, M.A. thesis, University
of Melbourne, 1995.
Elected to the University Senate, Ohio
State University, 1996-1999
University Research Committee, 1996-1999.
Chair, Rules and Practices subcommittee
of the University Research Committee, 1996-1997
University Fiscal Committee, 1997-1999.
Graduate Studies Committee, 1996-1997
Chair, Economics Department Tenure
Committee, 1997-1998
Economics Department Search Committee,
1997-98.
Graduate school ad hoc committee to
review proposals for the Program for the Enhancement of Graduate Studies
(PEGS), 1998.
Ad Hoc Committee on Legal Affairs,
Faculty Council, 1998.
Representative, Faculty Senate of the
Colleges of Arts and Sciences, 1991-1998
Chair, University Research Committee,
1998-1999.
Member Research Commission Report
Implementation Process Steering Committee, 1998-99.
Member Research Commission Research and
Undergraduate Education Task Group, 1999
Member, Chief Information Officer Search
Committee, 1999
Member Central Investment Review
Committee, 1999-2000.
Member Graduate Studies Committee,
Economics Department, 1999-2000.
Chair, Economics Department Tenure
Committee, 1999-2000.
Member, Presidential Commission on
Governance Structure of the University Senate, 1999-2000.