Amy Bix
Amy Sue Bix | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | history of technology, history of medicine, women and gender studies |
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| Education | Ph.D., History of Science,Johns Hopkins University(1994) Bachelor of Arts, Biology,Princeton University(1987) |
Amy Sue Bixis an Americanhistorian of science, technology and medicinewhose research topics include studies of women and gender, the history of education, and twentieth-century social, cultural, and intellectual history. She is a distinguished professor of history atIowa State University.
Education and career
[edit]Bix grew up in the Chicago area.[1]She earned a bachelor's degree in biology fromPrinceton Universityin 1987, withSigma Xihonors.[2]At Princeton, she was one of the founders ofThe Princeton Tory,a conservative student magazine.[3]
In 1994, she earned a Ph.D. in the history of science fromJohns Hopkins University.Her dissertation,Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981,was selected as one of theAmerican Library Association'sChoice MagazineOutstanding Academic Titles.[2]
Bix has been a history professor atIowa State Universitysince 1993.[1]In 2007 she became the director of Iowa State's Consortium for the History of Technology and Science.[4]May 2023 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.[5]
Books
[edit]Bix's books include:
- Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women(MIT Press, 2013)[6]
- The Future is Now: Science and Technology Policy in America Since 1950(with Alan I. Marcus, Humanity Books, 2007)[7]
- Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)[8]
Honors and awards
[edit]Bix is the recipient of:
- The 2022 Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize of theSociety for the History of Technology(SHOT)[9]
- The 2021 Martha Trescott Prize of SHOT[10]
- The 2015 Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession of theIEEE[11]
- The 2015Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prizeof theHistory of Science Society[12]
- The 2014 Betty Vetter Award for Research of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN)[13]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Amy Bix".Directory.Iowa State University Women's and Gender Studies Program.Retrieved2023-06-08.
- ^abBix, Amy Sue (September 2017)."Curriculum vitae".Iowa State University.Retrieved2023-06-08.
- ^Dietze, Jane (October 5, 1984)."New campus conservative journal strives for intellectual approach".The Daily Princetonian.Vol. 108, no. 90.
- ^"Consortium for the History of Technology and Science".Iowa State University Department of History.Retrieved2023-06-03.
- ^"Congratulations, university award recipients".Inside Iowa State for faculty and staff.Iowa State University. May 4, 2023.Retrieved2023-06-03.
- ^Reviews ofGirls Coming to Tech!:
- Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings,Choice,doi:10.5860/CHOICE.169370
- Amy E. Foster,Isis,doi:10.1086/681874,JSTOR10.1086/681874
- Kimberly A. Hamlin,The American Historical Review,JSTOR26577370
- Maria Klawe,"Opening Doors to Engineering",Science,JSTOR24743400
- Neelam Kumar,International Journal of Gender, Science & Technology,[1]
- Clarissa Ai Ling Lee,East Asian Science, Technology and Society,doi:10.1215/18752160-3494390
- Nina E. Lerman, "The Culture of Unexpectation",The Women's Review of Books,JSTOR26433065
- Bianca Prietl,Technikgeschichte,[2]
- Kael R. Sharman,Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation,[3]
- Corinna Schlombs,Technology and Culture,JSTOR44017076
- Leonie Maria Tanczer,LSE Review of Books,[4]
- Robin Tatu, "On the shelf: Gentle invasion",ASEE Prism,JSTOR43747559
- Kim Tolley,History of Education Quarterly,JSTOR26356259
- Karin Zachmann,Icon,JSTOR44242745
- ^Review ofThe Future is Now:
- Stephen D. Nelson, "Science's policy (and political) environment",PsycCRITIQUES,doi:10.1037/a0012396
- ^Reviews ofInventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?:
- Horst Brand, "Technological unemployment",Monthly Labor Review,JSTOR41845368
- Howard Brick,The Business History Review,doi:10.2307/3116492,JSTOR3116492
- Gary Cross,The Journal of American History,doi:10.2307/2675209,JSTOR2675209
- Ester Fano,Technology and Culture,JSTOR25147767
- Don Lamberton,Prometheus,doi:10.1080/08109020050172708
- George Lipsitz,The American Historical Review,doi:10.2307/2693032,JSTOR2693032
- David W. Noble,Isis,doi:10.1086/386416,JSTOR10.1086/386416
- Michael J. Polzin,Labor Studies Journal,doi:10.1177/0160449X01026002
- Robert Zieger,H-Net,[5]
- ^"Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize, recipient 2021".Society for the History of Technology. January 20, 2022.Retrieved2023-06-03.
- ^"Martha Trescott Prize recipient 2021".Society for the History of Technology. January 26, 2022.Retrieved2023-06-03.
- ^"Past recipients".Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession.IEEE.Retrieved2023-09-08.
- ^"The Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize".History of Science Society.Retrieved2023-09-08.
- ^"WEPAN Awards".Women in Engineering ProActive Network.Retrieved2023-09-08.
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