Rachel Bunker
Class Adviser & Associate Faculty
rab648@nyu.edu
(212) 992-7746
733 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Tuesday 2:00-4:00
B.A., History, Agnes Scott College, 2009
M.A.T., Teaching, Lewis and Clark College, 2011
M.A., History, University of Georgia, 2014
Rachel is a historian by training with a research focus on the intersections between U.S. imperial history, histories of economy, cultural history, and the production of scientific knowledge and expertise. Her dissertation, “Insuring Empire: U.S. Actuaries, Underwriters, and Statisticians in Latin America, 1894-1935” examines the role actuarial scientists and actuarial thinking played in “managing the risks” of American state and commercial expansion in Latin American during the early twentieth century. Rachel’s teaching interests are primarily in histories and theories of capitalism, the history of economic thought, and science and technology studies
Courses
2023 Fall
First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar: Data: A History
2022 Fall
First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar: Data: A History
2021 Fall
