Prof. Caley D Horan

Professor Horan is an associate professor in the History Section. She is an historian of the 20th century United States interested in the social life of economic ideas. Her research and teaching focus on business history and the history of capitalism, risk and uncertainty, and American culture in the post-1945 era. Her first book "Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America," won the 2022 Hagley Prize for best book in business history. "Insurance Era" examines the role of the insurance industry in shaping social, political, and economic life in the United States during the second half of the 20th century. Horan is currently at work on a new project on the history of astrology and uncertainty in the modern United States. She earned her B.A. from Stanford University in 2003, and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2011.