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Charlotte Erickson is a scholar of interdisciplinary interests, whose work integrates humanistic and social scientific perspectives in the fields of immigration and economic history.
Erickson’s research on immigrant letters, ships’ passenger lists, and census data has enabled her to illuminate basic aspects of migration history, to study the movements of individuals and groups over time, to follow immigrants from their place of origin to place of destination, and to focus on behavioral and structural aspects of the process. She has provided new methods and source materials for analysis of one of the major chapters in recent U.S. history. Erickson is the author of Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America (1973), and Leaving England: Essays on British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century (1994), and the editor of Emigration from Europe: 1815-1914 (1976).
Biography
Erickson is a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, and was the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge (1983-90).
Erickson received a B.A. (1945) from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, and an M.A. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1951) from Cornell University. She studied statistics and demography (1948-50) at the London School of Economics.
Last updated January 1, 2005
Published on August 1, 1990
