Silke Meyer

Associate Professor at the Institute for History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck where her area of specialisation is economic anthropology, she studies money as social and cultural praxis. In this area of her work, she heads the “Follow the Money” project which analyses the importance for creation of transnational identities of remittances sent home by immigrants. In her monographic study Das verschuldete Selbst. Narrativer Umgang mit Privatinsolvenz (“The Indebted Self: Narrative Handling of Private Insolvency”, Campus, 2017) she analyses debt from a sociological and cultural perspective. She is a member of the doctoral seminar “Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalisation” and was awarded the 2017 City of Innsbruck Prize as well as several other prizes for innovation in teaching with her “Money Matters” project.