Emily Klancher Merchant is a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, in the Institute for Computational Science and Department of History. She recently completed a PhD in history and a graduate Certificate in science and technology studies at the University of Michigan, with a thesis entitled “Prediction and control: global population, population science, and population politics in the twentieth century.” She is currently revising the dissertation for publication as a monograph and further developing an online supplement, titled “A digital reading of twentieth-century demography” (http://www.emilyklancher.com/digdemog/). She has also pursued research on the historical demography and environmental history of the United States West from the Civil War to the present, using such computational methods as agent-based modeling and ecosystem modeling.