Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Expert Bio

Caley Horan is an associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the history of risk and prediction, capitalism and business, and the social life of economic ideas. Her first book is Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Horan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. from Stanford University.