Lisa Dillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 193114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Dillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillon |
| SIGNATURE | DILLON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1597-4839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Trust and Distrust of Historical Census Sources in the Digital Age: History under Construction
This presidential address discusses the developing body of research on the quality and idiosyncrasies of historical data, focusing in particular on historical census microdata. I argue that greater attention to source criticism as a genuine subfield of social science history is essential for four reasons: to fully benefit from the expansion of big historical data, to imagine new ways to analyze historical data beyond the intentions of creators, t…
Using the TCP data to study Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century: Challenges and opportunities
Dynamic interplay of kinship and net-fertility: A comprehensive analysis across demographic transitions in Mexico
This study explores the relationship between grandparental co-residence and net fertility – measured as the number of children under five – in Mexico across three key phases of its demographic transition: 1930 (pre-transitional), 1970 (population growth), and 2015 (fertility decline). Using census microdata and Poisson and multinomial regression models, we assess how intergenerational household structures interact with family socioeconomic status…
Unveiling Mexico's Demographic Transitions
This study examines Mexico's fertility transition (1930–2015) and how socioeconomic status (SES), geography, and indigeneity shaped reproductive behaviors. Using net fertility—the number of surviving children under five—we assess how prestige bias (adopting high‐status fertility norms) and conformism bias (aligning with local norms) influenced change across distinct population groups. We introduce the time, space, and population model to analyze …
Participatory needlework and human rights activism: The Project Bordando por la paz y la memoria: una víctima un pañuelo [Embroidering for Peace and Memory: One Victim, One Handkerchief]
This article reflects on a participatory embroidery project in Mexico, Bordando por la paz y la Memoria: una víctima un pañuelo, by the art collective Fuentes Rojas. For over ten years this public art initiative has used needlework to engage with human rights issues. Fibre art groups in Mexico use needlework and the internet to address issues such as disappearances, femicides/feminicides and other violent killings. Building on Latin America’s her…
Textile pedagogies: Stitching as reflective practice
The act of stitching women’s lives together within the context of a sewing circle is an opportunity to narrate life experiences on fabric and within a fabric of community. Stitching, and its association to mending, also has relevance within trauma recovery to both illustrate adversity and hope. This article features the artistry of arpilleras (stitched storytelling on cloth) produced by women’s textile collectives in Chile. Arpilleras have also f…
PRDH and IMPQ 1800–1849 Quebec Historical Family Reconstitution. Content, Design and Biographical Completeness
Since 1966, the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) has worked to create comprehensive genealogical data of the Quebec population. The PRDH longitudinal database, the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (RPQA), draws upon the French Catholic parish registers of the St. Lawrence Valley as its main source material. This family reconstitution covers the French Catholic population of Quebec up to 1799, along with deaths aft…
Introduction to the Dialogues on Repairing the Fabric of Society through Needlework
In these Dialogues, Lorna Dillon brings together essays that explore the relationship between fiber art and social justice in Latin America. The authors discuss Chilean arpilleras, needlework projects and the struggle for peace in Colombia, the Mexican Embroidering for Peace Movement, and Margarita Cabrera’s fabric sculptures about the US-Mexico borderlands. The section brings the work of scholars from different regions into dialogue. Beatriz Ele…
Embroidery in Abya Yala
In these Dialogues, Lorna Dillon brings together essays that explore the relationship between fiber art and social justice in Latin America. The authors discuss Chilean arpilleras, needlework projects and the struggle for peace in Colombia, the Mexican Embroidering for Peace Movement, and Margarita Cabrera’s fabric sculptures about the US-Mexico borderlands. The section brings the work of scholars from different regions into dialogue. Beatriz Ele…
History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web is Transforming Historical Research . Ian Milligan
I’ve got to be independent’: Views of older people on recovery following road traffic injury in New South Wales, Australia
Australia New Zealand clinical trial registry identification number ACTRN12613000889752
Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database
The 1831 census database is the newest addition to the series of 19th century Canadian census microdata available for social science research, thanks to a collaboration between the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) and FamilySearch. This article presents the work undertaken to prepare this database and the main challenges encountered in the course of this work. While the data extracted from the 1831 census are an invaluable …
Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States, 1959–2016
This study examines the roles of age, period, and cohort in influenza mortality trends over the years 1959–2016 in the United States. First, we use Lexis surfaces based on Serfling models to highlight influenza mortality patterns as well as to identify lingering effects of early-life exposure to specific influenza virus subtypes (e.g., H1N1, H3N2). Second, we use age-period-cohort (APC) methods to explore APC linear trends and identify changes in…
Epidemic cycles and environmental pressure in colonial Quebec
OBJECTIVES: Research on historical populations in Europe finds that infectious disease epidemics appear to induce predictable cycles in age-specific mortality. We know little, however, about whether such cycles also occurred in less dense founder populations of North America. We used high-quality data on the Quebecois population from 1680 to 1798 to examine the extent to which age-specific mortality showed predictable epidemic cycles. We further …
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique: Past, present and future developments in family reconstitution
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Historical Demography Research Programme) (PRDH), founded in 1966 and based at the Département de Démographie of the Université de Montréal, has since its inception featured a central project, a family reconstitution database of Quebec’s Catholic population from 1621 to 1799 named the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (Population Register of Historic Quebec) (RPQA). This article, whic…
Sibling Influence on Access to Marriage: A Comparative Study of Québec and Flanders, 1842–1912
In this comparative article of European and American contexts, we investigate how siblings influence individuals’ access to marriage. We use a comparative and quantitative event history analysis approach to identify similarities and differences between the contexts studied. We find evidence in both contexts of customs that stipulated that siblings should marry in order of birth and also positive stimulative effects from married siblings on their …
Lives of their own, a place of their own? The living arrangements of ‘business girls’ in early twentieth-century Canadian cities
The rise of living alone since the 1960s and women’s diversifying employment opportunities are signifiers of an accelerated individualisation of lives, with marked repercussions for urban housing markets. Yet early twentieth-century youth married later than baby boomers, and metropolitan urbanisation, combined with cultural and technological modernisation post-First World War, helped entrench single women in white-collar employment and legitimise…
The consequences of sibling formation on survival and reproductive success across different ecological contexts: A comparison of the historical Krummhörn and Quebec populations
This article investigates the relationship between additional siblings and the probability of offspring survival, marriage, and fertility across the historical populations of the St Lawrence Valley in Quebec (1670–1799) and the Krummhörn region in Germany (1720–1874). Both populations existed in agriculturally based economies, but differ in important ways. The Krummhörn population faced a fixed supply of land, which was concentrated amongst a sma…
Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources ed. by Peter Baskerville and Kris Inwood
Reviewed by: Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources ed. by Peter Baskerville and Kris Inwood Lisa Dillon Peter Baskerville and Kris Inwood, eds., Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press 2015) The edited volume Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources has arrived at a propitious moment when academic researchers a…
Retirement at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Canadian Perspective
In late-nineteenth-century North America, privately financed retirement emerged as a recognized phenomenon. While scholars acknowledge these origins, the prevalence of retirement remains intensely debated. The 1901 Canadian census explicitly required the enumerator to ask respondents if they had retired. The question makes it possible to correct estimates of labour force participation that are biased upward by the known tendency of men to report …
Parental and sibling influences on the timing of marriage, xviith and xviiith century Québec
Cet article s’intéresse au mariage ainsi qu’au célibat en tant que phénomènes démographiques qui peuvent éclairer l’évolution des conditions de la reproduction sociale et l’équilibre du pouvoir entre les générations au sein des familles. Cette étude s’appuie sur le Registre de la population du Québec ancien, qui couvre la période de 1621 à 1799, et aborde la question des influences familiales sur le calendrier du mariage des Québécois aux xvii e …
The Value of the Long Form Canadian Census for Long Term National and International Research
Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States
CHARLES, Aline, Quand devient-on vieille ? Femmes, âge et travail au Québec, 1940-1980 (Québec, Éditions de l’IQRC, 2007), 391 p
CHARLES, Aline, Quand devient-on vieille ? Femmes, âge et travail au Québec, 1940-1980 (Québec, Éditions de l’IQRC, 2007), 391 p.. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 62, numéro 1, été 2008, p. 5-178) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Best Practices with Large Databases on Historical Populations
(2004). Best Practices with Large Databases on Historical Populations. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 34-38
The North Atlantic Population Project An Overview
The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) brings together complete-count census data from late-nineteenth-century Canada, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, and the United States into a single harmonized database. When released in 2005, the final version of the database will include the records of nearly 90 million people. The project will consistently code all variables across the different countries, while still retaining important national var…
The consequences of sibling formation on survival and reproductive success across different ecological contexts: A comparison of the historical Krummhörn and Quebec populations
This article investigates the relationship between additional siblings and the probability of offspring survival, marriage, and fertility across the historical populations of the St Lawrence Valley in Quebec (1670–1799) and the Krummhörn region in Germany (1720–1874). Both populations existed in agriculturally based economies, but differ in important ways. The Krummhörn population faced a fixed supply of land, which was concentrated amongst a sma…
Occupational Classification in the North Atlantic Population Project
The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) is a complete-count data set of late-nineteenth-century censuses from Canada, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, and the United States. One of the project's most challenging tasks is the coding and classification of 2 million distinct responses to occupational questions. Using the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO) as the basis for their classification scheme, the auth…
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique: Past, present and future developments in family reconstitution
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Historical Demography Research Programme) (PRDH), founded in 1966 and based at the Département de Démographie of the Université de Montréal, has since its inception featured a central project, a family reconstitution database of Quebec’s Catholic population from 1621 to 1799 named the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (Population Register of Historic Quebec) (RPQA). This article, whic…
The Value of the Long Form Canadian Census for Long Term National and International Research
Interpreting Work: Classifying Occupations in the Public Use Microdata Samples
(1995). Interpreting Work: Classifying Occupations in the Public Use Microdata Samples. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 28, The Minnesota Historical Census Project, pp. 70-73
Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database
The 1831 census database is the newest addition to the series of 19th century Canadian census microdata available for social science research, thanks to a collaboration between the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) and FamilySearch. This article presents the work undertaken to prepare this database and the main challenges encountered in the course of this work. While the data extracted from the 1831 census are an invaluable …
Integrating Canadian and U.S. Historical Census Microdata: Canada (1871 and 1901) and the United States (1870 and 1900)
(2000). Integrating Canadian and U.S. Historical Census Microdata: Canada (1871 and 1901) and the United States (1870 and 1900) Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 185-194
Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States, 1959–2016
This study examines the roles of age, period, and cohort in influenza mortality trends over the years 1959–2016 in the United States. First, we use Lexis surfaces based on Serfling models to highlight influenza mortality patterns as well as to identify lingering effects of early-life exposure to specific influenza virus subtypes (e.g., H1N1, H3N2). Second, we use age-period-cohort (APC) methods to explore APC linear trends and identify changes in…
Best Practices with Large Databases on Historical Populations
(2004). Best Practices with Large Databases on Historical Populations. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 34-38
International Partners, Local Volunteers and Lots of Data: The 1881 Canadian Census Project
Women and the dynamics of marriage, household status, and aging in victorian canada and the united states
This article compares the life course transitions and household statuses of Canadian and American women and men in late nineteenth-century Canada and the United States. Using a set of integrated census data from 1871 Canada and the United States in 1880, the article suggests that household status differences between the two nations centered on gender. Canadian and American men timed or experienced their own transitions into and out of marriage an…
Interpreting Work: Classifying Occupations in the Public Use Microdata Samples
(1995). Interpreting Work: Classifying Occupations in the Public Use Microdata Samples. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 28, The Minnesota Historical Census Project, pp. 70-73
Women and the dynamics of marriage, household status, and aging in victorian canada and the united states
This article compares the life course transitions and household statuses of Canadian and American women and men in late nineteenth-century Canada and the United States. Using a set of integrated census data from 1871 Canada and the United States in 1880, the article suggests that household status differences between the two nations centered on gender. Canadian and American men timed or experienced their own transitions into and out of marriage an…
International Partners, Local Volunteers and Lots of Data: The 1881 Canadian Census Project
Integrating Canadian and U.S. Historical Census Microdata: Canada (1871 and 1901) and the United States (1870 and 1900)
(2000). Integrating Canadian and U.S. Historical Census Microdata: Canada (1871 and 1901) and the United States (1870 and 1900) Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 185-194
The North Atlantic Population Project An Overview
The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) brings together complete-count census data from late-nineteenth-century Canada, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, and the United States into a single harmonized database. When released in 2005, the final version of the database will include the records of nearly 90 million people. The project will consistently code all variables across the different countries, while still retaining important national var…
Occupational Classification in the North Atlantic Population Project
The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) is a complete-count data set of late-nineteenth-century censuses from Canada, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, and the United States. One of the project's most challenging tasks is the coding and classification of 2 million distinct responses to occupational questions. Using the Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO) as the basis for their classification scheme, the auth…
Best Practices with Large Databases on Historical Populations
(2004). Best Practices with Large Databases on Historical Populations. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 34-38
Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States
CHARLES, Aline, Quand devient-on vieille ? Femmes, âge et travail au Québec, 1940-1980 (Québec, Éditions de l’IQRC, 2007), 391 p
CHARLES, Aline, Quand devient-on vieille ? Femmes, âge et travail au Québec, 1940-1980 (Québec, Éditions de l’IQRC, 2007), 391 p.. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 62, numéro 1, été 2008, p. 5-178) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Retirement at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Canadian Perspective
In late-nineteenth-century North America, privately financed retirement emerged as a recognized phenomenon. While scholars acknowledge these origins, the prevalence of retirement remains intensely debated. The 1901 Canadian census explicitly required the enumerator to ask respondents if they had retired. The question makes it possible to correct estimates of labour force participation that are biased upward by the known tendency of men to report …
Parental and sibling influences on the timing of marriage, xviith and xviiith century Québec
Cet article s’intéresse au mariage ainsi qu’au célibat en tant que phénomènes démographiques qui peuvent éclairer l’évolution des conditions de la reproduction sociale et l’équilibre du pouvoir entre les générations au sein des familles. Cette étude s’appuie sur le Registre de la population du Québec ancien, qui couvre la période de 1621 à 1799, et aborde la question des influences familiales sur le calendrier du mariage des Québécois aux xvii e …
The Value of the Long Form Canadian Census for Long Term National and International Research
Lives of their own, a place of their own? The living arrangements of ‘business girls’ in early twentieth-century Canadian cities
The rise of living alone since the 1960s and women’s diversifying employment opportunities are signifiers of an accelerated individualisation of lives, with marked repercussions for urban housing markets. Yet early twentieth-century youth married later than baby boomers, and metropolitan urbanisation, combined with cultural and technological modernisation post-First World War, helped entrench single women in white-collar employment and legitimise…
The consequences of sibling formation on survival and reproductive success across different ecological contexts: A comparison of the historical Krummhörn and Quebec populations
This article investigates the relationship between additional siblings and the probability of offspring survival, marriage, and fertility across the historical populations of the St Lawrence Valley in Quebec (1670–1799) and the Krummhörn region in Germany (1720–1874). Both populations existed in agriculturally based economies, but differ in important ways. The Krummhörn population faced a fixed supply of land, which was concentrated amongst a sma…
Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources ed. by Peter Baskerville and Kris Inwood
Reviewed by: Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources ed. by Peter Baskerville and Kris Inwood Lisa Dillon Peter Baskerville and Kris Inwood, eds., Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press 2015) The edited volume Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources has arrived at a propitious moment when academic researchers a…
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique: Past, present and future developments in family reconstitution
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Historical Demography Research Programme) (PRDH), founded in 1966 and based at the Département de Démographie of the Université de Montréal, has since its inception featured a central project, a family reconstitution database of Quebec’s Catholic population from 1621 to 1799 named the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (Population Register of Historic Quebec) (RPQA). This article, whic…
Sibling Influence on Access to Marriage: A Comparative Study of Québec and Flanders, 1842–1912
In this comparative article of European and American contexts, we investigate how siblings influence individuals’ access to marriage. We use a comparative and quantitative event history analysis approach to identify similarities and differences between the contexts studied. We find evidence in both contexts of customs that stipulated that siblings should marry in order of birth and also positive stimulative effects from married siblings on their …
Epidemic cycles and environmental pressure in colonial Quebec
OBJECTIVES: Research on historical populations in Europe finds that infectious disease epidemics appear to induce predictable cycles in age-specific mortality. We know little, however, about whether such cycles also occurred in less dense founder populations of North America. We used high-quality data on the Quebecois population from 1680 to 1798 to examine the extent to which age-specific mortality showed predictable epidemic cycles. We further …
Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database
The 1831 census database is the newest addition to the series of 19th century Canadian census microdata available for social science research, thanks to a collaboration between the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) and FamilySearch. This article presents the work undertaken to prepare this database and the main challenges encountered in the course of this work. While the data extracted from the 1831 census are an invaluable …
Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States, 1959–2016
This study examines the roles of age, period, and cohort in influenza mortality trends over the years 1959–2016 in the United States. First, we use Lexis surfaces based on Serfling models to highlight influenza mortality patterns as well as to identify lingering effects of early-life exposure to specific influenza virus subtypes (e.g., H1N1, H3N2). Second, we use age-period-cohort (APC) methods to explore APC linear trends and identify changes in…
I’ve got to be independent’: Views of older people on recovery following road traffic injury in New South Wales, Australia
Australia New Zealand clinical trial registry identification number ACTRN12613000889752
History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web is Transforming Historical Research . Ian Milligan
Introduction to the Dialogues on Repairing the Fabric of Society through Needlework
In these Dialogues, Lorna Dillon brings together essays that explore the relationship between fiber art and social justice in Latin America. The authors discuss Chilean arpilleras, needlework projects and the struggle for peace in Colombia, the Mexican Embroidering for Peace Movement, and Margarita Cabrera’s fabric sculptures about the US-Mexico borderlands. The section brings the work of scholars from different regions into dialogue. Beatriz Ele…
Embroidery in Abya Yala
In these Dialogues, Lorna Dillon brings together essays that explore the relationship between fiber art and social justice in Latin America. The authors discuss Chilean arpilleras, needlework projects and the struggle for peace in Colombia, the Mexican Embroidering for Peace Movement, and Margarita Cabrera’s fabric sculptures about the US-Mexico borderlands. The section brings the work of scholars from different regions into dialogue. Beatriz Ele…
PRDH and IMPQ 1800–1849 Quebec Historical Family Reconstitution. Content, Design and Biographical Completeness
Since 1966, the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) has worked to create comprehensive genealogical data of the Quebec population. The PRDH longitudinal database, the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (RPQA), draws upon the French Catholic parish registers of the St. Lawrence Valley as its main source material. This family reconstitution covers the French Catholic population of Quebec up to 1799, along with deaths aft…
Sociology (19 works) · Demography (17 works) · Population (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Demography (13 works) · Census (11 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Genealogy (8 works) · Art (7 works)