Dr T.G.M.W. Riswick (Tim)
Assistant professor - Department of History, Art History and Classics
Assistant professor - Radboud Institute for Culture and History
Member - Works Council
Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN
Tim Riswick, MA (1989) studied History in Nijmegen between 2008 and 2013. He graduated cum laude from the research master Historical Studies, specializing in Historical Demographics. He wrote his master thesis about child mortality in the region Hai-shan (Taiwan) and titled it: Gender versus Adoption. Determinants and Patterns of Infant and Child Mortality in Hai-shan, 1906-1945. Since september 2013 he started his PhD project with a grant from the N.W. Posthumus Institute. His project mainly focuses on child and youth mortality in Taiwan and the Netherlands, and the influence siblings on mortality outcomes. Moreover, he also investigates if family systems, and regional variations of family systems, play an important role in the observed mortality regimes in Taiwan and the Netherlands. Riswick is also a visiting scholar at the Program for Historical Demography of Academia Sinica and a guest PhD candidate at the chair group Sociology of Consumptions and Households at Wageningen University.
Research theme- Historical Demography