Summary of research
Dr. Sarah Carmichael is a social and economic historian working on questions surrounding the determinants of contemporary development outcomes. She is particularly interested in finding novel ways to measure cultural and institutional phenomena. Most of her research focuses on gender inequality and family organisation. Justice and fairness have always interested her (one of her first school reports even says as much). This source of inspiration has guided her choice of projects as she work to understand the root causes of inequalities and what we can do to tackle them. She wrote a PhD dissertation (supervised by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Tine De Moor and Jan Kok) on the world-wide developments in gender equality over the past 150 years on world scale.
She is an assistant professor within the department of History and Art History at Utrecht University. In this position she is the co-ordinator of the English language History BA programme and is responsible for a number of courses at BA and MA level. She has experience teaching and designing courses that introduce students to economic history and quantitative methods. She has also supervised internships both as an academic and as an organisational supervisor.
She has worked within the Race to the Bottom project co-ordinated by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk. In this project they looked at developments in the textile industry as its centres of production moved across the globe. Together with her colleague Corinne Boter they are building a dataset on wages in the textile industry from 1800. Within this project and others she has been the supervisor of two PhD students.
She has extensive experience organising international workshops and conference sessions, as well as with refereeing and editing.
In addition she is on the editorial board of the Yearbook for Women's History and has been an assistant to the editors for the Brill Series on Global Economic history.
Expertise
History
