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 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 | 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 | Blacksburg, VA | 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 |
