Kimberly Kracman is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University.  She earned her PhD in sociology at Princeton and holds a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard University.  Kim uses historical sociology and economic history to study the origins, mechanisms, and justification of wealth distribution in the United States in the context of global systems of capital accumulation.  Her current work explores the military origins of corporate accounting in the U.S., tracing the influence of West Point-trained engineers on the accounting and reporting practices of the nation’s earliest railroads.