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Victoria Gierok is a Tutor in Economic History at Nuffield College and Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She holds a DPhil (PhD) in Economic and Social History from the University of Oxford (2022), supervised by Professor Stephen Broadberry. Her research focuses on long-run economic inequality, taxation, and public finance in pre-industrial Germany (Holy Roman Empire, 1300–1800). She has created datasets analyzing over 50 urban and rural communities to study inequality drivers, including demographic shocks and institutional changes.
Teaching: She teaches courses such as 'Development of the World Economy,' 'Quantification in History,' and 'Cognition and Culture' at the undergraduate level.
Research Affiliations: She is affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Economic and Social History, specializing in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Her work has been supported by grants from the Economic History Society and the German History Society. In 2021, she won the Economic History Society New Researcher Poster Prize for her work on long-run poverty.
Media Engagement: Her research has been featured in VOX EU (2022) discussing economic inequality in Germany's long-run perspective.
