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Alma Steingart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her research explores the interplay between politics and mathematical rationalities. Steingart's book manuscript, 'Accountable Democracy: Mathematical Reasoning in Representative Democracy in America, 1920', examines how mathematical thought and computing technologies have influenced electoral politics in the United States during the twentieth century. She focuses on issues such as census, apportionment, congressional redistricting, ranked voting, and election forecasts, scrutinizing the evolving computational practices and statistical modeling that have contributed to our understanding of 'fair representation' for the American electorate. In her forthcoming book, 'Pure Abstraction: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism', Steingart investigates the impact of axiomatic reasoning on mid-century American intellectual thought, encompassing the natural and social sciences, literary criticism, and modern design. Previously, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and held a predoctoral research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Department of Anthropology (GSAS)