Mag. Mag. Dr. Verena Halsmayer
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Curriculum Vitae
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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, September - December 2013) and the Center for the History of Political Economy (Duke University, August - December 2012). April 2016 - September 2024 senior research scholar and lecturer at the Chair for Science Studies, University of Lucerne; September 2020 - July 2022 Swiss National Science Foundation research fellow (Postdoc.mobility).
Since October 2024 Postdoc research scholar and lecturer at the Department of History, University of Vienna.
Research
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Research Interests
- 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