Anne McCants

Anne McCants is a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow and Professor of History at MIT, and currently serves as the President of the International Economic History Association.

Her research and teaching interests lie in the economic and social history of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe, as well as in the application of social science research methods across the disciplines. She is the author of Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam (1997); co-editor of Railroads in Historical Context: Construction, Costs, and Consequences , (in three volumes, 2011-2013); and author of numerous articles that range across her research interests in historical demography, material culture, early modern trade and consumption, the provision of charity, and the relationship between economic growth and the standard of living. This work has appeared in many venues, including the Economic History Review , Explorations in Economic History , Family History , Historical Methods , the Journal of Economic History , the Journal of Interdisciplinary History , the Journal of World History , Social Science History , and the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History.