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 | [email protected] | 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 | [email protected], [email protected] | |||
| Coopersmith, Jonathan | College Station, TX | Facsimile, standards | [email protected] | http://history.tamu.edu/faculty/coopersmith.shtml | ||
| Cunningham, Joe | New York, NY | New York City electrification | [email protected] | |||
| Hochfelder, David | Albany, NY | Communications technology, Thomas Edison, Telegraphy, Electric Power, Radio | [email protected] | http://www.albany.edu/history/faculty/david_hochfelder.shtml | ||
| Israel, Paul | New Brunswick, NJ | Thomas Edison, birth of industrial innovation | [email protected] | http://edison.rutgers.edu/israel.htm | ||
| Magoun, Alexander | Princeton & Hoboken, NJ | Television, RCA, David Sarnoff, Marconi, Early Wireless | [email protected] | 732-981-3414 | http://www.ieee.org/about/history_center/magoun.html | |
| Russell, Andrew | Utica, NY | Internet, Internet policy, Technology standardization | [email protected] | http://www.arussell.org | ||
| Vinsel, Lee | Blacksburg, VA | Automobiles, Regulation of technology | [email protected] | http://www.leevinsel.com | ||
| Wellerstein, Alex | Hoboken, NJ | Nuclear weapons, inertial confinement technology | [email protected] | http://www.alexwellerstein.com |
