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Sofia Valeonti

Assistant Professor

  • Department: Economics and Management

Professor Valeonti arrived at 91勛圖厙in 2021. Before AUP, she was a research fellow at Duke University. She holds a PhD in Economics from Paris 1 Panth矇on-Sorbonne University.

Valeonti is a historian of economics, especially interested in the history of monetary ideas and policies of 19th century US. Her research focuses on the interplay between economic theory, policy, and visions of economic development in the context of the monetary policy debates of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period (1865-1879). She is currently focusing her research to shed light on the role of monetary policies and ideas in the building of American capitalism during the Civil War and Reconstruction period, with particular emphasis on the way monetary policies affected the economic policies related to the status of the newly emancipated slaves.



Education/Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Economics, University Paris 1 Panth矇on-Sorbonne (2020)
  • M.A. in History of Economic Thought (Master 1 & Master 2), University Paris 1 Panth矇on-Sorbonne (2015)
  • B.A. in Economics, University of Crete (2013)

Publications

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  • Valeonti, Sofia. 2020. Simon Newcombs Monetary Theory: A Reappraisal.泭The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought泭27 (6): 837 52.泭. 2.
  • Valeonti, Sofia. 2022. Henry C.泭Careys Monetary Thought and American Industrialization in the Greenbacks Debate.泭History of Political Economy泭54 (2): 186-216.泭.
  • Dimand, Robert, and Sofia Valeonti.2022. Irving Fisher, Simon Newcomb, and Their Plans to Stabilize the Dollar.泭The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought泭29 (6): 1052-1065.泭
  • Ron, Ariel, and Sofia Valeonti.2023. The Money War: An Interpretation of Democracy, Depreciation, and Taxes in the U.S. Civil War.泭Cambridge Journal of Economics泭47 (2): 263-268.泭

Book Review

  • Valeonti, Sofia. 2020. Review of泭Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy: Politics and Law in the Early American Republic, by Eric Lomazoff.泭History of Economic Ideas. (3)154-156.

Affiliations

  • Associate researcher, PHARE, University Paris 1 Panth矇on-Sorbonne
  • History of Economics Society (HES)泭
  • European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
  • European Historical Economics Society (EHES)

Research Areas

  • Monetary and banking economics
  • History of monetary theories and ideas
  • International money and finance
  • U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction (1865-1879)

Awards, Fellowships and Grants

Fellowships

  • Research fellowship, Center for Critical Democracy Studies, AUP, 2022-2023.
  • Research fellowship, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, 2020-2021.
  • Research and teaching assistant fellowship, University Paris 1 Panth矇on-Sorbonne, 2018-2020.
  • PhD program fellowship, University Paris 1 Panth矇on-Sorbonne, 2015-2018.
  • Academic Recognition

  • Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholar, for the 2022 History of Economics Society Annual Conference (HES), University of St. Thomas, June 16-18, 2022
  • Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholar, for the 2019 History of Economics Society Annual Conference (HES), Columbia University, June 20-23, 2019.
  • Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholar, for the 2018 History of Economics Society Annual Conference (HES), Loyola University Chicago, June 14-17, 2018.
  • ESHET Young Scholar Seminar, at the 21st Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), University of Antwerp, May 19, 2017.

Travel awards

  • Research grant, University Paris 1 Panth矇on-Sorbonne, for archival research at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library of Congress, July-August 2017.

Curriculum Vitae