INES Member Directory

History of Technology, Modern Industrial Culture, Religion and Technology

My work in the history of technology ranges over a number of topics, mostly in twentieth-century US history, including the history of women and gender in engineering and the wider STEM area. I have also researched and published on the history of engineering and economics, engineering and competition, and invention and innovation.

Bailey Bond-Trittipo is an engineering and computing education Ph.D. student in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) at Florida International University. She earned a B.S. in Physics in Mathematics from Butler University in December 2019 and began her Ph.D. studies the following fall semester. Her research interests center on racial and socioeconomic equity in secondary engineering education.

Cognition, conceptual change, situated cognition

Justin Castro (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is a scholar of modern Latin America whose research focuses on technology, engineering, politics, and social inequities, especially in Mexico. He is the author of a number of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books. His books include Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897-1938 (2016), Apostle of Progress: Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico (2019), and Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico, 1876-1946 (2022). He is currently working on a book titled A History of Technology and Society in Latin America.

Engineering Education, Gender studies, STEAM, Skills and employability

I have an ongoing fascination with waste, circularity, consumption, food/ag justice, bioeconomy, care ethics, smart city discourses, and engaged scholarship. I have not published on much of this as I spend much of my time working back and forth between becoming a more effective, critical educator and publishing on those activities. Or, I'm spending time working with activists to reform k12 education or get resources into the hands of those most able to enact change.

Thrilled by the turn-outs at both the SHOT meeting in Singapore and 4S in Sydney this past week, and good to see many of you at both, including the amazing discussion with 13 journal editors (Engineering Studies included). I spend a few months a year (usually 2 the past few years, but 3x six) in Singapore watching the high-speed transformations in engineering education (at least in theory) and technology development at institutions such as the new Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Tembusu College at NUS (the master the past nine years has been Greg Clancey, and was the host for the SHOT meetings), Biopolis (a biology-focuses research set of institutions) and One North generally (Biopolis, Fusionopolis, and Mediaopolis), as well as now the rapid experiments with Smart Nation (an update of previous brandings such as Intelligent Nation, but one that is involving sandboxes for driverless vehicles, spreading IoT generally, large scale engineering projects, etc.). One of the general issues is so-called “interdiscplinarity” on which SUTD has staked its identity as an innovative institutions, and I’m interested in how the more difficult yet called “softer" sciences (social sciences, humanities) get incorporated in engineering (or fail to) and how engineering issues get incorporated into smart (“intelligent?”) social science, including current debates about algorithms and accountability. Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at MIT, as well as Lecturer in Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Trained at Johns Hopkins, the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago (PhD). Taught at Chicago, Harvard, Rice, and MIT; served as Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at Rice, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT. Fieldwork in the Caribbean, Iran, India, and currently in Southeast Asia. Work in three primary areas: (1) The anthropology of the biomedical sciences and technologies: with the Genome Institute of Singapore and the Human Geonome Organization (HUGO) on social and ethical issues associated with genomics and with capacity building in the Asia-Pacific region; and with the MIT- Indian Department of Biotechnology project to establish a Translational Medicine Institute in New Delhi on the MIT Health Science and Technology (HST) model. Also helped the National University of Singapore to establish an STS cluster, now at the new Singapore University of Technology and Design to do the same. Co-edited A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories and Emergent Realities (with Byron Good, Mary Jo Good, and Sarah Willen). (2) The anthropology of media circuits, with foci of regional attention to the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia. Three books on Iran (Iran from Religious Dispute to Revolution, on the training of religious leaders in the seminary town of Qum; Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues between Postmodernity and Tradition (with Mehdi Abedi) on oral, literate and visual media in Iran; and Mute Dreams, Blind Owls and Dispersed Knowledges in the Transnational Circuitry (2004) on interpretations of the national epic, the Shahnameh, and the films of social repair after the Iran-Iraq war. More recently he has been tracking the explosion of arts and media in Singapore and Asia. (3) Anthropological methods for the contemporary world with specially attention to the interface between science and technology and anthropology. Anthropology in the Meantime (2018), Anthropological Futures (2009), Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice (2003), and (with George Marcus) Anthropology as Cultural Critique (1986, 2nd ed. 1999). Edit a book series (with Joe Dumit) on Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, and Anthropological Voices, which has 34 volumes out as of 1 Sept. 2018.

PhD Cultural Anthropology at Duke University (2018)

I am Senior Director of the IEEE History Center, a center for the public history of engineering. For those who don't know, IEEE is the world's largest engineering association, and its members are interested in making sure that the story of engineering is preserved and disseminated. The IEEE History Center is located at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ., USA, which serves as a partner for our university-level programs, and where I have a courtesy appointment as Industry Professor of the History of Technology (we also have pre-university programs and outreach to engineers and to the general public). Most of our content can be found on the Engineering & Technology History Wiki (www.ethw.org) which we operate on behalf of a consortium of engineering associations, and on our pre-university site (https://reach.ieee.org/). I have bachelors degrees in electrical engineering and in anthropology from MIT, and masters and PhD degrees in Anthropology (Archaeology) from Harvard University. Prior to going into administration, my research interests were on the prehistory and early history of metallurgy. I am also a registered patent agent in the U.S.

Magdalena Gil is Assistant Professor at P. Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Engineering. She is also a researcher at the National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disasters Management (CIGIDEN). She earned her PhD in Sociology at Columbia University (2016). Her area of research is Disaster Studies, Sociology of Risk, Social Studies on Technology.

Engineering Education and Liberal Arts Education

I ​completed my M.A. in history of science and technology in 2019 at Johns Hopkins University, where I'm pursuing my Ph.D. and writing a dissertation with the tentative title "The Pollution Experts: Environmental Engineering in Cold War America." I previously worked as engineer on the radio communications for NASA's Parker Solar Probe at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. I have a masterʼs degree in electrical engineering. Through my teaching and research, I hope to encourage interaction between disciplines, especially between engineering and the humanities, and especially on problems of inequality and the environment.

Historical and social studies of engineering, with emphasis on global engineering, ethics and social responsibility, and engineering practice.

Aalok Khandekar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology/ Sociology at the Departments of Liberal Arts and Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Aalok’s recent research has focused on environmental health governance infrastructures in the urban global South. An integral dimension of this research has been to understand and support the development of scholarly research infrastructures, both digital and social. Aalok is part of the design group of the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), an open source platform to support collaborative data sharing and analysis in the empirical humanities. He is a founding member of the Transnational STS and TransAsiaSTS networks. Aalok currently also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, the open access journal for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Critical Theory of Technology, Theory of Culture, Monuments' Conservation, Built Environment, Theory of Artifacts

Engineering workforce diversity, women in engineering

Retired Professional Civil Engineer (P.E.)

I am primarily an historian of the 19th-century United States, focusing on science and engineering. My first book is Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute. I am currently studying topographic and scientific surveys of the American West in the 19th century.

I’m Cyrus Mody, editor in chief of Engineering Studies and Professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University. As that title implies, my work straddles the history of science and technology since about 1965, mostly in the US and mostly related to nanotechnology, microelectronics, and (increasingly) oil and alternative energy. Because I have an undergraduate degree in mechanical and materials engineering, and because my main professional society is SHOT, I primarily identify as an historian of engineering. And because my PhD is from the Cornell STS department, I’m also comfortable with STS and other interdisciplinary approaches – and very happy to edit an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of engineers and engineering! I’m also excited to work with the members of Engineering Studies’ editorial team (Deputy Editor Kacey Beddoes, Book Review/Digital Editor Qin Zhu, and Associate Editors Aalok Khandekhar, Julia Bursten, Kornelia Konrad, and Hyungsub Choi), our Advisory Editors, and the members of the editorial board including Vivian and Atsushi. I’m the author of, among other things, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: Microelectronics and American Science (MIT, 2017), which was funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation administered by Mike Gorman and written in conversation with the other members of IRG-1 of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at UC Santa Barbara, especially Patrick McCray, Ann Johnson, Amy Slaton, and David Brock. I now reside in the Netherlands, which has a strong engineering studies tradition represented here in Maastricht by my friends and colleagues Wiebe Bijker, Ernst Homburg, and Vincent Lagendijk.

Ingeniero Civil, Especialista en Gerencia de Construcciones, Estudiante de Maestría en Filosofía, Ética de las obras de infraestructura.

Alice Pawley (she, her, hers) is a Professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper Award, the Benjamin Dasher award, and co-authored the paper nominated by the ASEE Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for ASEE Best PIC Paper for 2018. More recently, she received her school’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring, the Award for Leadership, and a 2019 award from the College of Engineering as an Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students. In 2020 she won the Sterling Olmsted Award from the Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division of ASEE. She is president of Purdue’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (2020-22). She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and recently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity.

I study technoscientific innovations in medicine and health, particularly their entanglements with transnational and postcolonial transformations. I triangulate information obtained through oral histories, interviews, personal archives, etc. with those available in scientific publications to explore processes and contexts of innovation.

Design, Inclusion

Jorge is committed to research and design information technologies for social impact. He pursues symmetrical and situated approaches to knowledge exchange between experts, non-experts, and informatics tools. Following information infrastructures studies, critical data studies, and participatory action-research, Jorge problematizes the access to social services for human crisis and broadband programs for social mobility. He co-designs prototypes to reflect on technological controversies and empower communities to imagine innovative visions of future. He advocates for STEM based students who plan to pursue a professional career in social impact with technology. He finds endless inspiration to engage Latinx groups in these processes and fosters interdisciplinary academic communities to strengthen collaborations between universities and communities.

Cindy Rottmann is an assistant professor of engineering leadership at the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP) and the associate director of research at the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) at the University of Toronto. Cindy's research examines engineering leadership in professional practice, engineering career paths and the integration of equity and social justice in engineering ethics education. She currently serves as the chair of the Engineering Leadership Development Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE LEAD). Dr. Rottmann is a K-12 mathematics and science teacher with bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in educational leadership and policy studies.

Eric Schatzberg is most recently the author of Technology: Critical History of a Concept, https://bit.ly/2DbeXvb

Engineering and Identity; STEM Diversity; Disabilities Studies

Aristotle Tympas, a specialist in the study of technology from the humanities and the social sciences, works as professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His studies combined engineering (MSc, Aristotelio University, 1989), technology and science policy (MSc, Georgia Tech, 1995) and history-sociology of technology (PhD, Georgia Tech, 2001). In addition to teaching courses at his university (at his home department and at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications), he has helped to introduce and teach courses in the digital, environmental and medical humanities at several other universities, in Greece and abroad. Former chair (2017-2019) of the management committee of the ‘Tensions of Europe: Research Network on History, Technology and Europe’, Tympas currently serves as vice president of the International Master’s Programme on Society, Science and Technology (ESST), as director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program ‘Science, Technology, Society—Science and Technology Studies’ and as chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. He has been a visiting scholar in the US (MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society), Germany (Viadrina Center B/Orders in Motion) and Sweden (Swedish Institute for Disability Research). Tympas has supervised over one hundred student theses (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral), Greek and international. With support from a series of fellowships and grants, he has published on a range of issues and technologies (Theory / Historiography, Computing / Communication / Automation, Environment / Energy / Sustainability, Biotech / Biomed / Med / Disability, Labor / Gender / Migration, Greece). He is the author of Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era (Springer, 2017) and Analog Labor, Digital Capital (Angelus Novus, 2018, In Greek).

Dominique Vinck is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Lausanne and at the College of Humanities of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Former director of of the STSLab, of the UNIL Institute of Social Sciences and of the Doctoral Program in Digital Studies, his research focuses on the sociology of science and innovation, mainly in the field of the engineering of digital cultures and humanities. He is Chief Editor of the Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances and is member of the editorial board of Engineering studies. He published among other: Everyday engineering. Ethnography of design and innovation (MIT Press, 2003), The Sociology of Scientific Work. The Fundamental Relationship between Science and Society (Edward Elgar, 2010), Critical studies of innovation: Alternatives to the Pro-Innovation Bias (Edward Elgar, 2017), Les métiers de l’ombre de la Fête des Vignerons (Antipodes, 2019), Staging Collaborative Design and Innovation: An Action-Oriented Participatory Approach (Edward Elgar, 2020), Handbook on Alternative Theories of Innovation (Edward Elgar, 2021), Faire sans, faire avec mois. Les nouveaux horizons de l’innovation (Presses des Mines, 2022).

Research Interests - Technical systems; Women Engineers in Motorsports; Automobility, Motorsports, and the Environment; Innovation and Design; Using and Maintaining Technology; Ethics in Engineering and Design