Katherine Jane Humphries, CBE FBA (born 9 November 1948),[1] is a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford with the Title of Distinction of professor of economic history.
[4] Humphries gained her economics degree from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1970; she went on to Cornell University to do both her masters and then her doctorate which she completed in 1973.
In 1993, during her period at Newnham College, Humphries was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Population and Development within Harvard University's School of Public Health.
[2] She is currently on the editorial boards of Gender, Work and Organization,[9] and Feminist Economics.
[10] On 29 January 2016 Humphries received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.