Dan Bouk researches the history of bureaucracies, quantification, and other modern things shrouded in cloaks of boringness. His work investigates the ways that corporations and states have used, abused, and re-made the categories that structure our daily experiences of being human. He teaches history at Colgate University.
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The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories—you just have to know how to read them. In Democracy's Data, the data hi... SEE MORE