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Mikaela Springsteen is a PhD student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her work studies quantification, mathematization, and the social and cultural role of numbers across human social life, focusing especially on the ways in which numbers create realities.

Current research includes study of (1.) cultures of numeracy, (2.) the relationship between speculation and calculation, and (III.) the history of Roman numerals.

Education

• PhD Management, Economic Sociology (present)
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management
• MA Sociology with Quantitative Methods (2019)
  The University of Edinburgh

Contact Mikaela by email at msprings@mit.edu.