Alexis Litvine
Senior Researcher, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) · School of Humanities and Social Sciences · University of Cambridge
Quick answer: Alexis Litvine is Senior Researcher, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) at University of Cambridge. Alexis Litvine shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ I supervise students on all areas of French/European economic and social history, the history of temporality and spatiality, and the history and political economy of industrialisation in Europe, and quantitative economic history.
Anyone interested in using occupational data for French economic history, studying historical market integration, or living standards in the long run would be particular
Research interests
My research has several distinctive strands.
I work on comparative economic history
- European commercial and economic integration during the second half of the nineteenth century
- Occupational structure and economic performance in the long run
- Living standards during the Industrial Revolution
- Economic geography of industrialisation
I am also a cultural economic historian interested in:
- The cultural history of the economy, especially popular understandings of the economy
- The social construction and diffusion of economic norms in Europe during the 19th century
- The history of temporality and spatiality, especially in the context of industrialisation
- The social construction of technologies, the usage of technology and deviance, and the history of failed technologies mostly, so far, in the case of spinning and reeling, milling, and mechanical labour control and surveillance.
Finally, I have a strong interest in Digital Humanities and quantitative methods and specifically:
- Geospatial analysis
- Machine Learning applied to historical data extraction and analysis
- Handwritten Text Recognition for complex historical documents, combining advances in the fields of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing to extract and process very large amount (several millions and in some cases billions of images) of historical data.
- Gamification in historical learning
Selected publications (since 2023)
2023 A. Litvine, Like Clockwork, Social Norms and the Industrialisation of European Societies, 1850s-1910s (forthcoming)
2025 'A First Full-Count Linking of English and Welsh Censuses, 1851-1921', CWPESH, Guillaume Proffit, Alexis Litvine, Emma Diduch, (https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.120530)
2025 'Railways and urban scaling in England and Wales over 190 years of development', Nat Cities 2, 1240–1250, Chen, Z., Litvine, A. & Shaw-Taylor, L. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00351-6)
2025 'A Model for Road Transport in France and the UK, 1910-1930.' Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History. (https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116780)
2024 'A multi-criteria simulation of European coastal shipping routes in the age of sail', with J. Lewis and A. Starzec, Nature, Human and
Frequently asked questions
Is Alexis Litvine hiring PhD students at University of Cambridge?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Alexis Litvine's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: I supervise students on all areas of French/European economic and social history, the history of temporality and spatiality, and the history and political economy of industrialisation in Europe, and q.
What does Alexis Litvine research?
My research has several distinctive strands.
I work on comparative economic history
- European commercial and economic integration during the second half of the nineteenth century
- Occupational structure and economic performance in the long run
- Living standards during the Industrial Revolution
Data last updated: 2026-09-11 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.
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