Ellen Abrams, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University
ellen.abrams@mcgill.ca

I am a historian of science and mathematics, specializing in science and technology studies, women’s and gender studies, critical data studies, and American cultural history. In July 2024, I will begin a position as Assistant Professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

“An Inalienable Prerogative of a Liberated Spirit: Postulating American Mathematics.” British Journal for the History of Mathematics (2020): 1-21.
“‘Indebted to No One’: Grounding and Gendering the Self-Made Mathematician.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 50, no. 3 (2020): 217-247.
Emergent Unfairness in Algorithmic Fairness-Accuracy Trade-Off Research with A. F. Cooper. Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (2021): 46-54.
Caroline Eustis Seely: A letter to the American Mathematical Society. Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook (2023).

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