Speakers Bureau

Is your organization, chapter, section, group, division, or society looking for historical perspective? Does it need a plenary, kick-off, keynote, or after-dinner speaker? The ETHW Speakers Bureau provides an expanding list of outstanding historians on the histories of engineering and technology with relevance to ASCE, ASME, IEEE, SWE, and other technical organizations. Please contact them directly to discuss a booking.

Speaker	Location(s)	Historical subjects and topics	Email	Phone	Webpage
Abbate, Janet	Blacksburg, VA	Women in computing, the Internet	abbate@vt.edu		http://www.sts.vt.edu/faculty/abbate/
Bix, Amy Sue	Ames, IA	Girls Coming to Tech! Women, Men, and Engineering Education in Historical Perspective; How Lionel Trains, The Easy-Bake Oven, and Engineer Barbie Promoted Technology to American Boys and Girls; United States Engineering Education, From the American Revolution to the iPhone			http://www.history.iastate.edu/faculty-staff/am
Brewer, Nathan	New Brunswick and Hoboken, NJ	Electronic music & technologies
Carlson, Bernard	Charlottesville, VA	Nikola Tesla, Thinking about Invention, Business of Innovation, Role of Corporate R&D, Technology and the Environment, Revolutionary and evolutionary innovation			http://history.virginia.edu/user/63
Cohn, Julie	Houston, TX	North American electrification, Alternating Currents: Community Responses to Long Distance Power Transmission in North America, Electricity and the City, The Grid: A Very Short History of the World's Largest Interconnected Machine	jacohn@uh.edu, cohnconnor@comcast.net
Coopersmith, Jonathan	College Station, TX	Facsimile, standards	j-coopersmith@tamu.edu		http://history.tamu.edu/faculty/coopersmith.shtml
Cunningham, Joe	New York, NY	New York City electrification	joec20@earthlink.net
Hochfelder, David	Albany, NY	Communications technology, Thomas Edison, Telegraphy, Electric Power, Radio	dhochfelder@albany.edu		http://www.albany.edu/history/faculty/david_hochfelder.shtml
Israel, Paul	New Brunswick, NJ	Thomas Edison, birth of industrial innovation	pisrael@rutgers.edu		http://edison.rutgers.edu/israel.htm
Magoun, Alexander	Princeton & Hoboken, NJ	Television, RCA, David Sarnoff, Marconi, Early Wireless	a.b.magoun@ieee.org	732-981-3414	http://www.ieee.org/about/history_center/magoun.html
Russell, Andrew	Utica, NY	Internet, Internet policy, Technology standardization	arussell@arussell.org		http://www.arussell.org
Vinsel, Lee	Hoboken, NJ	Automobiles, Regulation of technology	lvinsel@stevens.edu		http://www.leevinsel.com
Wellerstein, Alex	Hoboken, NJ	Nuclear weapons, inertial confinement technology	awellerstein@stevens.edu		http://www.alexwellerstein.com