Catherine Porter

Biographic Data

ID3681573
NAMECatherine Porter
GIVEN NAMESCatherine
FAMILY NAMEPorter
SIGNATUREPORTER C
AFFILIATIONSLancaster University
ORCID0000-0002-4541-064X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS73
TOTAL CITATIONS832
AUTHOR COUNT63
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1936
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Bench marks of change

    Open AccessCaitlin Porter, Catherine Porter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2026

    Ordnance Survey (OS) bench marks are small, chiselled survey marks, typically composed of a horizontal line or indentation above an upward-pointing arrow. Used by the OS to measure height during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they shaped topographic knowledge in Ireland, Great Britain and beyond. Despite their ubiquity, they have received little scholarly attention, with recording projects emphasising surviving examples while overlooking…

  • Isolated data showers

    Open AccessCaitlin Porter, Catherine Porter et al.ARTICLEIrish Geography2025

    Recent digitisation of major meteorological sources has offered valuable insights into Ireland's past climate. However, more localised historical weather data remain sparse for most of the country. A largely unexplored resource lies in the early nineteenth century Ordnance Survey (OS) statistical reports collected as a component of the first OS of Ireland. This research sets out how a team of researchers applied diverse techniques such as corpus …

  • A Summer with Pascal

    Antoine Compagnon, Catherine PorterBOOKSummer with Pascal2024

    Blaise Pascal is a marquee name, yet little read outside France. Antoine Compagnon provides an ideal introduction to one of the great intellects, contextualizing Pascal in his own time and offering insightful readings of the Pensées and the Provincial Letters . Compagnon proves a welcoming guide to Pascal’s challenging and rewarding thought.

  • Beyond Despair

    L Lombard, Hélène Dumas et al.BOOKBeyond Despair2024

  • From the Illusions of Democracy to the Realities of Its Appearances

    Bruno Latour, Catherine PorterCHAPTERThe Problematic Public2023

  • Community Partners' Perspectives on Partnering With an Academic Research Team to Promote Disability-inclusive Fitness Programming

    Toni Liechty, Mina Woo et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2023

    Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action - Volume 17, Number 3, Fall 2023

  • Reprioritising inclusion and equity to meet SDG4

    Open AccessCaitlin Porter, Catherine PorterARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023Cited by: 1References: 1

    This commentary draws on the body of multidisciplinary research produced using the Young Lives Dataset, a 20 + year, mixed-method longitudinal cohort study in four countries in the Global South. In summary, inequality of opportunity in education had been falling over 20 years since the turn of the Millennium, but progress has been reversed by recent global crises. Longitudinal evidence shows that the home and community environment prior to enteri…

  • Reflections on translating Bruno Latour

    Open AccessCaitlin Porter, Catherine PorterARTICLESocial Studies of Science2023

  • “The parambulatyon of thys lordshype is not travele”

    Open AccessCaitlin Porter, Catherine PorterARTICLEIrish Geography2022

    Surveyors tasked with measuring and recording the landscape of sixteenth century Great Britain and Ireland had no definitive guide on surveying practice and no comprehensive standardisation or regulation was in place. They rarely recorded the techniques used in their fieldwork and so their field practices are largely a mystery. For today’s historians of cartography who seek to understand why and how maps were made, this leaves a void in our knowl…

  • On Justification

    Open AccessLuc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot et al.BOOKOn Justification2021Cited by: 197

  • Gender Differences in the Choice of Major

    Caitlin Porter, Catherine Porter et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Journal Applied…2020

    We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and charismatic women who majored in economics at the same university. The intervention significantly impacted female students’ enrollment in further economics classes, increasing their likelihood to major in economics by 8 percentage points. This is a large effect, given that only 9…

  • The Queer Turn in Feminism

    Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Anne‐emmanuelle Berger et al.BOOKThe Queer Turn in Feminism2020

    More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both "American" and "French," thus simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, she tr…

  • How to Be French

    Patrick Weil, Catherine PorterBOOKHow to Be French2020

    How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France's foremost historians. First published in France in 2002, it is filled with captivating human dramas, with legal professionals, and with statesmen including La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, de Gaulle, and Chirac. France has long pioneered nationality policies. It was France that first made the parent's nationality …

  • Space and Time in 100 Million Words

    Open AccessCatherine Porter, Paul Atkinson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    The abundance of information contained in nineteenth-century texts means the traditional ‘close reading’ of Victorian culture has limitations. With the burgeoning availability of newspapers in digital format, there is a pressing need to look at how we might effectively and efficiently use these digital resources to help answer research questions and add to key historical and geographical debates. Focusing on the analysis of a large digital corpus…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessCatherine PorterARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Digital Humanities (DH) is a dynamic and developing field. In recent years, its evolution has been witnessed foremost in the growth of funded DH projects and through the willingness of scholars from diverse backgrounds to not only work in DH research, but also as ‘digital humanists’. One crucial component to DH research is that of spatial enquiry, the expansion of which has rapidly evolved from a small component often found buried in research obj…

  • Facing Gaia

    Bruno Latour, Catherine PorterBOOKFacing Gaia2017

  • Facing Gaia

    Bruno Latour, Catherine PorterBOOKFacing Gaia2017

  • Facing Gaia

    Bruno Latour, Catherine PorterBOOKFacing Gaia2017

  • Facing Gaia

    Bruno Latour, Catherine PorterBOOKFacing Gaia2017

    "The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best desc…

  • Vulnerability to Drought and Food Price Shocks

    Open AccessRuth Vargas Hill, Caitlin Porter et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2017Cited by: 9References: 6

  • Patterns of infant mortality in rural England and Wales, 1850-1910

    Open AccessPaul Atkinson, Brian Francis et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review2017Cited by: 2References: 28

    The study of nineteenth-century infant mortality in Britain has neglected the rural dimension to a surprising degree. This article maps the change in infant mortality rate (IMR) between the 1850s and the 1900s at registration district (RD) level. Latent trajectory analysis, a longitudinal model-based clustering method, is used to identify the clusters into which rural RDs fell, based on their IMR trajectories. Relationships between IMR and popula…

  • Spatial modelling of rural infant mortality and occupation in 19th-century Britain

    Open AccessPaul Atkinson, Brian Francis et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2017Cited by: 2References: 28

    Infant mortality in 19 th century rural places has been largely neglected: to study it offers new insight into rural demography

  • Social protection for all ages? Impacts of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program on child nutrition

    Open AccessCaitlin Porter, Catherine Porter et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Cited by: 16References: 18

  • From Digital Resources to Historical Scholarship with the British Library 19th Century Newspaper Collection

    Open AccessIan Gregory, Paul Atkinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Siberian Federal…2016

    It is increasingly acknowledged that the Digital Humanities have placed too much emphasis on data \ncreation and that the major priority should be turning digital sources into contributions to knowledge. \nWhile this sounds relatively simple, doing it involves intermediate stages of research that enhance \ndigital sources, develop new methodologies and explore their potential to generate new knowledge \nfrom the source. While these stages are fam…

  • Geographical Text Analysis

    Open AccessCatherine Porter, Paul Atkinson et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2015Cited by: 6References: 2