Current Member
William Peter Deringer
Infosys Member; additional funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
History of Science and Technology
Home institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Website
William Deringer is a historian of science and technology who studies practices and technologies of calculation in economic, financial, and political life. He is completing a book, "The Formula That Rules Our Future: A Social History of Discounting." At IAS, he will begin research on a history of randomness in the twentieth century.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
2012
Honors
2026
Karen Hunger Parshall Prize, Forum for the History of the Mathematical Sciences
2025
Walter D. Love Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
2020
Joseph J. Spengler Book Prize, History of Economics Society
2019
Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University
2017
Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University
2011
Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University
Appointments
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019
Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015–2019
Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
Columbia University
2012–2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities