I’m a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows and a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Trained in  the history and sociology of science, I work on the social and political dimensions of valuation and quantification, with special reference to life, health, and nature.

My forthcoming book, entitled ‘Life as Investment: How Humans Became Capital, 1890–1990,’ explores the rise of human capital theory between its modern formulation in the work of Irving Fisher and the World Bank’s Investing in Health report. 

You can can email me at jbunning [at] uchicago [dot] edu or follow me on twitter @bunnjey