Lorraine Daston is the director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and is a visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is coeditor with Elizabeth Lunbeck of Histories of Scientific Observation (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and coauthor with Peter Galison of Objectivity (Zone Press, 2007), and is currently completing a book on moral and natural orders.