Incoming Member
William Peter Deringer
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
History of Science and Technology; Economic and Financial History
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 the 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
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