Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, 2007-2008
• Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, 2007
• M.A. History, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2003
• B.A. History, Vassar College, 1996

Areas of Research

• History of Science and Technology
• United States History, 1880-present
• Business and Economic History
• History of Information and Communication Technologies
• Internet History and Policy
• Standardization History and Policy

Honors and Awards

• Mahoney Prize, Special Interest Group for Computers, Information, & Society, 2016
• Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grant, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, 2010 & 2014
• Curriculum Development Grant, National Institute for Standards and Technology, 2013
• History Fellowship, Association for Computing Machinery, 2011 & 2013
• IEEE Life Members’ Fellowship in Electrical History, 2008-2009
• The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Processing, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, 2006-2007
• Commended Paper, International Electrotechnical Commission Centenary Challenge, 2006
• First place, World Standards Day Paper Competition, 2006

Professional Service

• Contributing Editor, Technology & Culture
• Reviews Editor, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
• Editorial Board Member, Information & Culture: A Journal of History
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Standardization Research
• Editorial Board Member, Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture & Society
• Nominations Committee Member, Society for the History of Technology (2016-2018)

Selected Publications

Books:

• Ada’s Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age (ACM Press, 2015)         – co-editor with Robin Hammerman
• Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Articles:

• “Hail the Maintainers,” Aeon (April 6, 2016) – co-authored with Lee Vinsel.
• “Histories of the Internet: Introducing the Special Issue,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 50 (May-June 2015) – co-authored with Thomas Haigh and William H. Dutton.
• “In the Shadow of Arpanet and Internet: Louis Pouzin and the Cyclades Network in the 1970s,” Technology & Culture 55 (2014): 880-907 – co-authored with Valérie Schafer.
• “Using Ethical Reasoning to Amplify the Reach and Resonance of Professional Codes of Conduct in Training Big Data Scientists,” Science and Engineering Ethics (November 2014) – co-authored with Rochelle E. Trachtenberg, Gregory J. Morgan, Kevin T. FitzGerald, Jeff Collman, Lee Vinsel, Michael Steinmann, and Lisa M. Dolling.
• “The Internet That Wasn’t,” IEEE Spectrum 50 (August 2013): 38-43.
• “Modularity: An Interdisciplinary History of an Ordering Concept,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47 (2012): 257-287.
• “‘Rough Consensus and Running Code’ and the Internet-OSI Standards War,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing28 (July-September 2006): 48-61.
• “Telecommunications Standards in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions,” The Journal of the Communications Network 5 (January-March 2006): 100-106.
• “Standardization in History: A Review Essay with an Eye to the Future,” in Sherrie Bolin, ed., The Standards Edge: Future Generations (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Sheridan Books, 2005).