Verena Halsmayer

• history of economic knowledge
• the history of modeling and measuring in the social sciences
• historical and political epistemologies
• theories and practices of planning in the long 20th century
• tools and procedures of administering, managing, and organizing
• everyday economic reasoning

Studies of history and economics, University of Vienna (stays abroad: Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Københavns Universitet).

2016 PhD in history as part of the program “The sciences in philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts,” University of Vienna (dissertation: Modeling, Measuring, and Designing Economic Growth: The Neoclassical Growth Model as a Historical Artifact, 1930s–1960s.)

Several research fellowships, for instance at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (London School of Economics), the Center for the History of Political Economy (Duke University), and the Chair of Global Economic History (University of Konstanz).

2016 –2024 senior research scholar and lecturer (Oberassistentin) at the Chair for Science Studies, University of Lucerne; 2020 – 2022 research abroad with a postdoc.mobility funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Since October 2024 University Assistant (postdoc) at the Department of History, University of Vienna.