Misa, Thomas J. 1959-

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Misa, Thomas J. 1959-

PERSONAL:

Born May 31, 1959, in Port Angeles, WA; son of Frank (a forester) and Carolyn (a schoolteacher; maiden name, Tulloch) Misa; married Ruth Fothergill (a physician), June, 1983; children: Christopher, Henry. Ethnicity: "White." Education:Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1981;University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1987.

ADDRESSES:

Home—2745 W. Windsor Ave., Chicago, IL 60625. Office—Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616.

CAREER:

Writer and educator. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, professor, 1987—.

MEMBER:

Society for the History of Technology, History of Science Society, Business History Conference.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Dexter Prize and IEEE Life Members Prize, both from Society for the History of Technology.

WRITINGS:

A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1995.

(Editor, with Arie Rip and Johan Schot) Managing Technology in Society, Harold Pinter (London, England), 1995.

(Editor, with Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg)Modernity and Technology, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA), 2003.

Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present, Johns HopkinsUniversity Press (Baltimore, MD), 2004.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Research on the social, cultural, and technical history of computing.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Scholar, summer, 2004, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, review of Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present, p. 126.

Business History, July, 1996, W.D. Rubinstein, review of A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925, p. 148.