Barbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios

Kort præsentation

My main interest is in health and mortality in historical settings, particularly infant health and mortality, parental effects on infant health, and socio-economic differences in mortality. I also work with contemporary data on demographic outcomes. I am part of the BioHistory Research Group led by Prof. Anne Løkke and the Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRE)

I got my PhD from Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a thesis entitled “Los usos de la Inclusa de Madrid: mortalidad y retorno a principios del siglo XX (1890-1935)” [The uses of the Foundling Hospital of Madrid: mortality and retrieval at the beginning of the 20th century (1890-1935)], where I mixed classical social history approaches with quantitative analysis from historical demography. Afterwards, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at urrently working at the the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University and at the Institute National d’Etudes Demographiques in Paris (France).

Primære forskningsområder

• Historical demography
• Population history
• History of infant abandonment
• Infant mortality
• Mortality decline
• Socio-economic differences in mortality in the past
• History of Madrid

Aktuel forskning

My current project is a Mobilex Mobility Grant, financed by the Danish Council for Independent Research and FP7 Marie Curie Actions- COFUND (reference DFF-1321-00136) entitled A Tale of Two Cities: inequality in death Copenhagen in Madrid in the late 19th and early 20th century. It aims at studying the relationship between occupation, often used as an indicator of socioeconomic status, and the mortality risk of individuals in two European cities, Copenhagen and Madrid, in late 19th and early 20th century. In order to do address this issue, reconstructed life courses (based on linked records on individual through the census, birth, death, migration and marriage information) will be created for the city of Copenhagen (1880-1885), the Copenhagen Historical Population Database, and compared to a similar data already available for Madrid. Results will illuminate whether and why mortality was higher for the working classes, and whether there were particular subpopulations at risk within the city: particular occupations, neighborhoods, age or gender groups

CV

Previous positions

2013-2014: Postdoctoral researcher. Institute National d’Etudes Démographiques (Paris, France).

2011-2013: Postdoctoral researcher. Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University (Lund, Sweden)

2010-2011: Research Assistant. Instituto de Economía, Geografía y Demografía. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Institute for Economics, Geography and Demography. Spanish Council for Scientific Research (Madrid, Spain).

2006-2010: PhD Fellow. Instituto de Economía, Geografía y Demografía. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Institute for Economics, Geography and Demography. Spanish Council for Scientific Research (Madrid, Spain).

2010 (3 months): Visiting scholar at the Department of Geography, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool (UK)

2010 (3 months): Visiting scholar at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague (Netherlands)

2009 (3 months): Visiting scholar at the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, (USA)

2008 (3 months): Visiting scholar at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)

2007 (3 months): Visiting scholar at the Inter-Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, (USA).

Education

2011: Doctor in History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Dissertation: ‘Los usos de la Inclusa de Madrid, mortalidad y retorno a principios del siglo XX (1890-1935)’ [The uses of the Foundling Hospital of Madrid, mortality and retrieval at the beginning of the 20th century (1890-1935)]’. Advisors: Prof. Diego Ramiro Fariñas and L.E.Otero Carvajal.Summa Cum laude (maximum qualification possible) and European Doctorate Mention.

2008: ‘Diploma de Estudios Avanzados’ [2-year Master in Contemporary History].Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (Spain).

2007: ‘Experto en Metodología de Investigación Cuantitativa’ [1-year Master in Methods of Quantitative Research], Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (Spain).

2005: B.A. and M.A. in History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid (Spain). Specialization in American Anthropology.

Honors

2012: ‘Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado’ [Extraordinary Doctoral Award] from the Faculty of Geography and History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Sprogkundskaber

English, Spanish, French

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Areas of specialized teaching

• Quantitative methods for historians
• History of population
• History of Spain

I am currently one of three teachers in the course: "Modul 1; Kroppenes politik, kroppenes historicitet" (Master course, compulsory, Autumn 22015)

I can supervise Master thesis on topics on social and economic history, particularly engaging with issues that intercept with population and individuals lifecourses (health, mortality, migration, fertility but also social mobility from any methodological approach) from cultural and quantitative approaches.