Recent Presentations

Spring, 2009. Talk on "Families, Societies and the Institutions of the Old Poor Law in Eighteenth-Century England" at the Yale British Historical Studies Colloquium in February, and in March presented a paper entitled "Hunting for Pensions in the Eighteenth Century" at a workshop on the comparative history of pensions at the Ecole d’Economie de Paris.

November, 2008. At Symposium on the Workhouse and Medicine in Birmingham, England, presented: "Humanitarianism and Hygiene in the Workhouse."

September, 2008:  Keynote address entitled "Institutionalizing the Aging Body" at an interdisciplinary conference held at the Institute for the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, and delivered a paper entitled "'A secure provision for the indigent is to the philanthropist what a pine-apple is to the epicure…': Political Economy and the Rights of Welfare Recipients in Late Eighteenth-Century England" at the International Society for Utilitarian Studies conference at the University of California Berkeley.

May, 2007: Associate Professor of History, gave a seminar in March at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure on "Workhouses, Families and the Rights of the Poor under the Old Poor Laws."

Books
The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, February 2004, http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521815800

Editor, with Lynn Botelho and Katharine Kittredge, Power and Poverty: Old Age in the Pre-industrial Past, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Articles
"Rights and Reciprocity in the Political and Philosophical Discourse of Eighteenth-Century England," with Anna Moltchanova, in The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England, edited by Linda Zionkowski and Cynthia Klekar, New York: Palgrave MacMillan (2009), 15-36.

"The Old Woman's Home in Eighteenth-Century England," in Women and Aging in British Society since 1500, ed. L. Botelho and P. Thane. London: Longman, 2000.

"Providing for the Elderly in Eighteenth-Century England," Continuity and Change, 13, 3 (1998), 391-418.

"Reconstructing the Life-Cycle Experience of Poverty in the Time of the Old Poor Law," with Samantha Williams, Archives XXIII, 98 (April 1998), 19-29.

"Age and Want in Eighteenth-Century Essex," Essex Journal (Spring 1996), 7-12.

Book reviews in American Historical Review, Journal of Social History, Population Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary HIstory, English Historical Review, The Historian, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Modern History.