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I am a historian of knowledge production in economic life. My research explores forecasting, futures, risk, catastrophe, and data in the context of 19th- and 20th-century US culture, technoscience, and capitalism. I earned my PhD from the Program in History, Anthropology, & STS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and I am currently an associate professor in the History Department at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where I teach courses in 19th- and 20th-century US history, the history of science and technology, and environmental history. I am also a member of the Rutgers Critical AI initiative, and in Spring 2025 I was a fellow in the Futures of Capitalism program at The New Institute in Hamburg. My first book, Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America (University of Chicago Press, 2017), is a history of forecasting that explores how the routinized predictions of everyday life functioned as new forms of knowledge and tools for risk management as late 19th- and early 20th-century Americans came to believe in the promise and accept the limitations of predicting the future.  I am currently working on two book projects: “Weather Capitalism: Gambling on the Weather from Rainfall Lotteries to Wildfire Markets” and “Data Driven: Information and Investigation in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States.”