Ryah is a historical social scientist of socioeconomic enfranchisement and mobility. Before joining WU as Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Economy of Public Policy, she completed her DPhil as a Clarendon Scholar in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford, where she was the first woman to win its annual Feinstein Prize for best master’s dissertation. She was also research assistant to Jane Humphries at the Oxford Martin School/Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). Her postgraduate work demonstrated novel methods to analyse population status mobility in England’s late-industrial period, with a focus on gendered and immigrant outcomes using intergenerational lifecourse evidence reconstructed en masse from full-count census data. Ongoing research projects further these innovations to explore the political economy of makeshifts and precarity, tied housing, and breadwinning since the 19^th century. She remains interested in developing new sources of historical microdata to inform our understanding of just transitions and resilience in the long run, and particularly the interrelationships between socioeconomic enfranchisement and biodiversity.

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