Speakers Bureau
From ETHW
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. Please contact them directly to discuss a booking.
| Speaker | Location(s) | Historical subjects and topics | 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 |
