Visiting Artist Lecture: Jamie Pietruska

Visiting Artist Lecture: Jamie Pietruska Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 7 p.m. Civic Square Building, Room 110 Bio Pietruska, an associate professor of history at Rutgers, engages in research that focuses on the production and circulation of knowledge in the 19th- and 20th-century United States. She has specific interests in forecasting and ideas about the future, risk and catastrophe, and data practices. Her first book, Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America (University of Chicago Press, 2017), tells the story of how late19th- and early 20th-century Americans came to believe in the promise and accept the limitations of predicting the future of the weather, the harvest, the market, and everyday life. She is currently working on two book projects: Weather Capitalism: Gambling on the Weather from Rainfall Lotteries to Wildfire Markets and Data Driven: Information and Investigation in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century United States. This lecture is presented as part of the Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all. ASL/CART available on request. Contact Cassandra at 848-932-5399 / coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu one week prior to event. Masks strongly encouraged Wheelchair accessible with ramps and elevators Quiet room available