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Robert McCaa

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Specialties

  • demographic history
  • modern Latin America
  • history of smallpox
  • census microdata preservation and dissemination
  • demography of war, revolution and epidemics

Publications

  • Inoculation: An Easy Means of Protecting People or Propagating Smallpox? Spain, New Spain and Chiapas, 1779-1800. McCaa, Robert E, 1998.
  • The peopling of Mexico from origins to revolution. McCaa, Robert E, A Population History of North America, Cambridge University Press, pp. 241-304.
  • Spanish & Nahuatl Views on Smallpox and Demographic Catastrophe in Mexico. McCaa, Robert E, 1995.
  • The Nahua calli of ancient Mexico: household, family, and gender. McCaa, Robert E, 2003.
  • Missing millions: the demographic costs of the Mexican Revolution. McCaa, Robert E, 2003.
  • Inverse projection: Fine-tuning and expanding the method. McCaa, Robert E, Elisabetta Barbi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2004.

Research Activities

  • IPUMS-International: Preserve, harmonize and disseminate census data of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 1999 - 2008
  • IPUMS-Europe: Integration of Census Microdata of 14 European countries: Preserve, harmonize and disseminate census data of Europe, 2004 - 2008
  • Integration of Census Microdata of Latin America: Preserve, harmonize and disseminate census data of Latin America, 2003 - 2007

Professional Activities

  • American Historical Association: 1974 - present
  • International Union for the Scientific Study of Population: 1976 - present
  • Member International Commission for Historical Demography: 1985 - present
  • President International Commission for Historical Demography: 2000 - 2004
  • Social Science History Association: 1980 - present
  • Sociedad Mexicana de Demografia: 1986 - present

Awards

  • Fulbright Hays Lecture and Research Award, Colombia, Fulbright, 1999
  • IPUMS-Latin America: National Institutes of Health, 2003 - 2007
  • IPUMS-International census harmonization project, National Science Foundation, 1999 - 2008
  • IPUMS-Europe: National Institutes of Health, 2004 - 2008

Courses Taught

  • Hist 3401W - Early Latin America to 1825
  • Hist 3425 - History of Modern Mexico
  • Hist 3797 - History of Population
  • Hist 5960 - Topics in History: World Population History
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