Dr T.G.M.W. Riswick (Tim)

Tim Riswick is an assistant professor of Historical Demography who specializes in comparative family history in East Asia and Western Europe, 1800-2000. His research focuses on how health inequalities arose in 19th and 20th century societies by studying themes such as epidemics, cause-specific mortality, and hospital patients. He leads the COST Action network “The Great Leap: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Health Inequalities, 1800-2022” and is currently working on his Dutch Research Council Veni project, “Unravelling Health Inequalities: The Historical Roots of Inequality in Death and Disease in West-European Port Cities, 1850-1950.”

As an educator, his teaching mainly revolves around themes within global family history, historical demography, historical life courses and stories. Examples include patients in hospitals, orphans, life courses in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period, life stories of miners in Limburg, social inequality in mortality, and life stories of migrants from Indonesia. If you are a student interested in these topics, feel free to contact him. Furthermore, he is also involved in interdisciplinary teaching modules, such as Health Care Humanities, and the application of AI (such as CHATGPT) in teaching.

Lastly, he actively contributes to the field of historical demography through various roles: he is a board member of the European Society of Historical Demography, Associate Editor of The History of the Family, and Chair of the IUSSP Panel on Epidemics and Contagious Diseases. Additionally, he serves on the board of Museum de Kantfabriek.

• Historical Demography

• Radboud Group For Historical Demography and Family History