Jamie Pietruska

Jamie Pietruska is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, specializing in 19th- and 20th-century U.S. cultural history, science and technology. She earned her Ph.D. from MIT and an A.B. from Brown University. As a member of the Rutgers Critical AI initiative and a 2025 fellow in the Futures of Capitalism program at The New Institute in Hamburg, her work bridges historical and contemporary issues in predictive knowledge systems.

Research Interests: Her scholarship focuses on forecasting, data practices, and risk/catastrophe in U.S. economic life. Her first book, Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America (2017), examines the cultural history of prediction, while her current projects—Weather Capitalism and Data Driven—explore financialization of weather and historical data systems.

Selected Honors:

• Fellow, The New Institute, Hamburg (2025)
• Excellence in Online Teaching (Rutgers, 2023)
• Best Article Prize (Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2018)
• Digital Humanities Seed Grant (2016-17)
• ACLS New Faculty Fellow (2010-12)

Professional Affiliations: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, History of Science Society, Society for the History of Technology, and Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.