Elise Dermineur

Elise Dermineur is an associate professor of economic history at Stockholm University. She specializes in early modern Europe, with a particular focus on the history of credit, debt, and financial practices. She is the author of Before Banks: The Making of Credit and Debt in Pre-Industrial France (Cambridge University Press, 2025), a study that explores credit networks and the role of social norms in economic life before the advent of institutional banking. Dermineur has published widely on topics such as the history of finance, gender and credit, and the persistence of mutual aid practices in both historical and contemporary contexts. She is also engaged in interdisciplinary conversations on financial ethics, inclusion, and resilience. In 2011, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2018–2019, and in 2021–2022, she served as a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. She is also slated to be a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for the 2025–2026 academic year.