EDUCATION
Ph.D. Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, 2000.
MS Electrical Engineering, Duke University, 1986.
BS Computer Engineering, Auburn University, 1984.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (Selected)
Professor, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma, 2007-present.
Editor-in-Chief, Technology and Culture, Society for the History of Technology, 2011-2020.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
Technology in Southeast Asian History, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2023.
Technology and Ethical Idealism: A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies, Leiden: CNWS. 2007
Scholarly Reference Works
Critical Readings in the History of Technology, London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Co-edited with Peter Soppelsa.
Articles or Book Chapters
“Moral Narratives of Technological Change in the Early Green Revolution”. In Thinking Through Science and Technology: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in an Engineered World, edited by Glen Miller. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023.
“Sugar”, Chapter 17 in Oxford Handbook on Agriculture, in press, Oxford University Press, 2024.
“Imagining a Technological Umma: Islam and High Technology in New Order Indonesia”, History and Technology, September 2020.
“Religions and social progress: Critical assessments and creative partnerships”, in Rethinking Society in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Coauthored with Grace Davie, Nancy T. Ammerman, Samia Huq, Lucian Leustean, Tarek Masoud, Jacob K. Olupona, Vineeta Singh, David A. Smilde, Linda Woodhead and Fenggang Yang.
“Engineering and the Postcolonial: Considering Ethics and Actions in Historical Perspective”, in The Philosophy of Engineering, East and West, C. Mitcham, B. Newberry, B. Zhang (eds.), Springer International Publishing, 2018.
“Building from the Outside In: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Civil Society in New Order Indonesia”, in Dreamscapes of Modernity, edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-hyun Kim. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015..
“Green Revolution”, in Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering, edited by J. Britt Holbrook and Carl Mitcham, New York: Macmillan, second edition. 2014. 413-416.
co-authored w/Donna Mehos, “The Uses of Portability: Circulating Experts in the Technopolitics of Cold War and Decolonization.” Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War Gabrielle Hecht (ed.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
“Place, Voice, Interdisciplinarity: Understanding Technology in the Colony and the Post-colony”, History and Technology 26, no. 3 (September 2010).
“Justice, Geography, and Steel: Technology and National Identity in Indonesian Industrialization”, OSIRIS 2009.
“The Emergence of Technological Development and the Question of Native Identity in the Netherlands East Indies”, The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 2005.
“Development, Technology, and the Unique Economy of the Colony: the Dual Economy Thesis in Netherlands East Indies’ Development Policies, c. 1920”, in Science, Tropical Medicine, and Empire. Western Europe and the Colonial World Since 1800, Benedikt Stuchtey (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
“Empirical Knowledge, Colonial Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905-1914.” Environment and History, April 2004.
“The Trouble with Mechanized Farming: Colonial Politics of Technological Change in the Netherlands East Indies c. 1920.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (1999).
“Takeoff or Self-Sufficiency: Ideologies of Development in Indonesia 1957-1961,” Technology and Culture, vol. 39, no. 2 (April, 1998).
Encyclopedia Articles
“The Green Revolution”, revised. Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Carl Mitcham (ed.), New York: Macmillan, 2013.
“From European Enclave to Indonesian Institution: Technological Development and the Growth of Science in Southeast Asia”, for The Cultural History of Humanity, vol. 7, Bocar Dia (ed.), UNESCO (2007).
“The Green Revolution”, Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Carl Mitcham (ed.), New York: Macmillan 2005.
AWARDS AND HONORS (Selected)
2021 Leonardo Da Vinci Medal, Society for the History of Technology 2021.