Andrew Russell
Ph.D.

Dean, Professor of History
Location
Utica
Faculty/Staff
Faculty
College
College of Arts + Sciences
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).