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50+2 years of Scholarship: UPenn Dept of the Hist and Soc of Sci - History of Technology

2024/11/5
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In October 2022, the University of Pennsylvania HSS Department commemorated it's 50th anniversary, delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over two days, alumni, faculty, and current students gathered to discuss the department's history, its contributions to the field and new directions scholarship might take.

In this episode:

Chair: Zachary Loeb PhD Candidate, HSS

Moderator: Elly Truitt Associate Professor, HSS

Ruth Schwartz Cowan HSS Professor Emerita

Deborah Fitzgerald Professor of the History of Technology, MIT

Amy Slaton Professor, Department of History, Drexel University

Stephanie Dick Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

Whitney Laemmli Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University

For more information on this and other topics, please see https://www.chstm.org/video/153