Britt Rusert is Professor in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. She is the author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (NYU Press, 2017) and co-editor of W.E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018).