Ph.D. David Edwin NYE Chair, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
CV
1968 | B.A. American Studies, cum laude, Amherst College |
1971 | M.A. American Studies, University of Minnesota |
1974 | Ph.D. American Studies, University of Minnesota |
1987-1991 | Associate professor, American Studies, Copenhagen University |
1987-1997 | Executive Board, Danish Fulbright Commission |
1992-1994 | Vice-President, Nordic American Studies Association |
President, Danish Association for American Studies | |
1992-1996 | Founder & Chair, Center for American Studies, Syddansk University |
1998 | Founder & Chair, Center for American Studies, Syddansk University |
2000-2003 | Executive Council, Society for the History of Technology |
2003 | Welch Visiting Professor in American Studies, Notre Dame University |
2003-2004 | Founder & Chair, Center for American Studies, Syddansk University |
2005-2006 | Professor of History and American Studies, Warwick University |
since 2006 | Founder & Chair, Center for American Studies, Syddansk University |
Mitgliedschaften
Society for the History of Technology American Studies Association, European Association of American Studies Nordic Association for American Studies |
Publikationen
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1990 | |
American Technological Sublime MIT Press, 1994 | |
Consuming Power: A Cultural History of American Energies. MIT Press, 1998 | |
America as Second Creation: Technological Foundation Stories Cambridge: MITPress, May, 2003, 370 pp. Review, New York Times, 31.5.03, 2003 | |
Technology Matters: Questions to Live With Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. Reviews: Times Higher Education 1.12.05, Nature, 31.8.06, 2006 |
Auszeichnungen
Able Wolman Book Award, American Public Works Association, 1991 | |
The Dexter Prize, Society for the History of Technology, 1993 | |
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by MIT Press, 1998 and 2003 | |
Elected permanent by-fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, 1999 | |
The Leonardo Da Vinci Medal, Society for the History of Technology, 2005 |