March 2026 Newsletter

From the AYHD Board

Reminder to help us help you!

The AYHD is exploring new ways to better support early career researchers and build up community outside of our individual institutions and shared conferences. We are hoping to organize a recurring virtual paper workshop to allow PhD students and early career researchers in historical demography and related fields the opportunity to share work in progress and get feedback from peers in a relaxed and supportive environment.

To do this, we need to hear from you!

Please fill out -> this poll <- to indicate whether you would be interested in participating in a paper workshop as presenter or participant and what format would best suit your needs and development. We are also eager to hear any suggestions for how to make these meetings most useful to the community of early career researchers. You can also email Emma Diduch (egd28@cam.ac.uk).

Spotlight Article

Every newsletter we will spotlight one article or working paper by a young historical demographer or researcher in an adjacent field. Would you like to have your work shared or do you know a recent paper that deserves to be spotlighted? Send an email to Joris (joris.kok@iisg.nl) with information on the research you would like to see shared.

This month’s newsletter is highlighting two articles:

Visualizing Victorian Manchester:
Granular Geocoding for Demographic Analysis

Published in Social Science History by Emily Chung (University of Cambridge). You can read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2025.10116.

and

From Sink to Source:
Demographic Change and Early Health Transition in Bogotá, 1878-1938

Working paper by Carlos Andrés Brando (Universidad de los Andes). You can read the full article here: https://hdl.handle.net/1992/77437.

Upcoming events and deadlines

Workshop: “Sowing the Seeds VIII”: A Workshop for Early Career Medieval Economic and Social Historians
📍 LSE
📆 5-6 November 2026
⏰ 31 March 2026
ℹ️ LSE

Call for Papers for the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA 2026)
📍 Atlanta
⏰ 1 April 2025
ℹ️ Call for Papers

Applications for two-year Master Programme in Global Demography
📍 University of Vienna
📆 1 October 2026
⏰ 7 April 2026
ℹ️ University of Vienna

Women’s History Network Seminar
“The Role of Women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016” (Samuel Beckton)
📍 Online
📆 7 April 2026
ℹ️ WHN BlueSky

Joint Ineqkill and Quetelet Conference
How Inequality Kills: Health Inequalities Across Time and Space
📍 Université catholique de Louvain
📆 18-20 November 2026
⏰ 1 May 2026
ℹ️ UCLouvain

Demo Lunch Seminar
“How do modes of data collection affect the measurement of demographic key indicators?” (Detlev Lueck)
📍 Leuven (Hybrid)
📆 14 April 2026 (13:00-14:00 CET)
ℹ️ Demo LLN BlueSky

Workshop: “From Matrimonial Ads to Dating Apps: Unravelling the Partnering Market”
📍 Lyon
📆 21-24 June 2027
⏰ 15 April 2026
ℹ️ ESSHC

Workshop: “From Matrimonial Ads to Dating Apps: Unravelling the Partnering Market”
📍 Center for Demographic Studies, Barcelona
📆 4-5 June 2026
⏰ 15 April 2026
ℹ️ ADEH

Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society Graduate Student Workshop
📍 Chapman University
📆 5-6 June 2026
⏰ 17 April 2026
ℹ️ Chapman

Women’s History Network Seminar
“Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914” (Kellie Bradshaw)
📍 Online
📆 21 April 2026 (16:00 GMT)
ℹ️ WHN BlueSky

Institute for Historical Research Training Session
Researching the History of Emotions
📍 Online (Zoom)
📆 28 April 2026
ℹ️ Institute for Historical Research

Early-Career Researcher Prize, Population Journal
⏰ 30 April 2026
ℹ️ Population Journal Website

Barcelona Summer School of Demography
Module 2: Demography with R
📍 CED, Barcelona
📆 6-10 July 2026
⏰ 30 April 2026
ℹ️ CED

Economic History Society Research Fund for Graduate Students
📍 United Kingdom
⏰ 1 May 2026
ℹ️ Economic History Society

Call for Papers Workshop
The Dynamics of Inequality: Long-Term Perspectives
📍 University of Florence
📆 17-18 September 2026
⏰ 12 April 2026
ℹ️ Arise

Workshop: GreatLeap
‘Epidemics, Gender, and Public Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’
📍 University of the Balearic Islands
📆 2-3 July 2026
⏰ 1 May 2026
ℹ️ IUSSP

Attend the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA 2026)
📍 St. Louis, Missouri
📆 6-9 May 2026

Workshop: Modern British History and the ‘Environmental Turn’
📍 University of Oxford
📆 16-17 September 2026
⏰ 15 May 2026
ℹ️ Andrew Seaton BlueSky

Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Early Career Workshop
Decentring the Medical Humanities
📍 University of Stirling
📆 29-30 October 2026
⏰ 15 May 2026
ℹ️ NNMH

Annual Workshop on Formal Demography
📍 UC Berkeley
📆 1-5 June 2026
⏰ 26 May 2025
ℹ️ More Information

Posthumus Summer School
‘Crises and History’
📍 Utrecht
📆 6-10 July 2026
⏰ 1 June 2026
ℹ️ Posthumus

ESTER Research Design Course for PhD Candidates
📍 Leuven
📆 26-28 October 2026
⏰ 15 June 2026
ℹ️ Posthumus

HEDG and SDU PhD Summer School
Historical Perspectives on Current Economics Issues: Big Data and Applications
📍 Odense
📆 10-21 August 2026
⏰ 1 July 2026
ℹ️ SDU

Hybrid Conference
Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches
📍 Hybrid: Online and Monash University
📆 23-24 July 2026
ℹ️ Monash

Call for Submissions BMJ Medical History Special Issue
Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures
⏰ 31 October 2026
ℹ️ mh.bmj.com

Vacancies

Health Services Researcher
📍 U.S. News & World Report – New York
⏰ Open Until Filled
ℹ️ Link to More Information

Researcher
📍 Minnesota State Demographic Center (SDC) – Saint Paul, Minnesota
⏰ 01 April 2026
ℹ️ Link to More Information

Predoc in Historical Economics and Development
📍 University of Southern Denmark
⏰ 01 April 2026
ℹ️ Link to Application Page

Postdoctoral Fellowship, History of Medicine & the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine
📍 Johns Hopkins University
⏰ 5 April 2026
ℹ️ Link to More Information

Contributor for IMPRS-PHDS
📍 Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
⏰ 17 April 2026
ℹ️ Link to More Information

Health Disparities Research Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow
📍 University of Wisconsin-Madison
⏰ Open
ℹ️ Link to More Information

Tenure-Track Professorship in Demography and Human Capital Formation
📍 The University of Vienna
⏰ 22 April 2026
ℹ️ Link to More Information

PhD position(s) in Applied Economics and Economic History
“The Age of Creativity – Understanding How Creativity Persists into Later Life”
📍 SDU, Denmark
⏰ 27 April 2026
ℹ️ SDU jobs

Professor/Associate Professor of Computational Social Sciences
📍 The University of Hong Kong
⏰ 31 May 2026
ℹ️ Link to More Information

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American Spatial History
📍 Binghamton University, New York
⏰ Open Until Filled
ℹ️ Link to More Information

Would you like to contribute?
The AYHD welcomes suggestions for collaboration or cross-promotion with researchers and institutions across the landscape of historical demography and its allied fields! Whether you are looking to promote your own research, suggest a conference social, or volunteer time on our Board, please get in touch!

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