Dan Bouk

DAN BOUK, PHD, authored "Revealing Data: The Color of Their Eyes" in 2017 when he was Associate Professor of History at Colgate University and author of How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual (University of Chicago Press, 2015). This post was inspired by research he did for an article on the history and political economy of personal data over the last 200 years, which was published in late 2017 in the History of Science Society's annual journal Osiris. Today, Bouk continues to teach the history of quantification at Colgate and recently completed a fellowship at the Data & Society Research Institute. He is the author of a new book, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, titled Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them.