James Williams, Ph.D.
101 Lake Winnemissett Drive
Deland, FL 32724. USA techjunc@gmail.com
Secretary-General
Timo Myllyntaus is
Professor of Finnish history at the University of
Turku, Finland.
E-mail: timmyl@utu.fi
His primary field of interest is the historical relationship between technology and the environment. His recent publications
include “Understanding the Place of Humans in Nature” in Illusory
Boundary: Environment and Technology in History, edited by
Steven Cutcliffe and Martin Reuss (Charlottesville: University
Press of Virginia, forthcoming); “History of Energy,” Scientists and
the Franklin Institute: Making Their Cases,
http://www.fi.edu/case_files/energy Philadelphia PA: The Franklin
Institute, 2006; “The American Industrial Revolution” in
Companion to American Technology edited by Carroll Pursell
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005), pp. 31-51.
He is also author
of Energy and the Making of Modern California (Akron, Ohio:
University of Akron Press, 1997).
He served as Vice-president of ICOHTEC from 2001-2009, as cofounder
and co-chair of Envirotech from 2000-2004, as Treasurer
of the Society for the History of Technology from 1992-2000, on
the Board of Directors of the National Council on Public History
from 1988-1991, and as Executive Director of the California
History Center Foundation from 1985-1994.
He holds a Licentiate of social sciences from the University of
Helsinki and a Ph.D. in economic history from the London School
of Economics, where he at the moment works as a Senior Visiting
Fellow. Earlier he has been a Senior Associate Member at St.
Antony College, University of Oxford, UK in 2002 and a visiting
researcher at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. in 2009.
With Margrit Müller he edited the book Pathbreakers: Small
European Countries Responding to Globalisation and
Deglobalisation (2008).
Postal address:
Timo Myllyntaus
Department of Finnish History
Kaivokatu 12
20
014 University of Turku
FINLAND
Vice-president:
Dick van Lente (1952) is associate professor in the cultural history
of modern western societies, Faculty of History and Arts at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, The Netherlands .
E-mail: vanlente@fhk.eur.nl
Treasurer
Patrice Bret
Head of Department of History at the Centre for Higher Studies on the Armament. Paris, France.
E-mail: patrice.bret@yahoo.fr
Fields of interest:
Cultural history of technology, history of publishing.
Currently working on two book projects: one on the cultural impact of
innovations in the Netherlands 1945-1970, the other, in cooperation
with six colleagues, on the popular culture of nuclear power in eight
countries.
I served on the editorial team that produced the six volume overview
Geschiedenis van de techniek in Nederland in de negentiende eeuw
(1992-1995) and contributed to the seventh volume (2003) of its
sequel, Techniek in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw, of which the
last part will appear in translation at MIT in 2009. Together with Bert
Altena I wrote the textbook Vrijheid en rede (2nd ed 2006), which
appeared at Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht spring 2009 under the title
Geschichte der westlichen Gesellschaften 1750-1989.
Together
with Thomas Misa, I served as chair for the technology network of
the European Social Science History Conference, 2002-2009.
He is also a
Researcher at the Centre Alexandre Koyré - Research Centre in
History of Sciences and Technology in Paris. His cultural and
social approach in the history of sciences and technology is
focused on practices, networks and institutions, especially in
military technology and from the Enlightenment to WWI. Among
his books are L’État, l’armée, la science. L’invention de la
recherche publique en France, 1763-1830 (Rennes, 2002) and
Lavoisier et l’Encyclopédie méthodique: le manuscrit des
régisseurs des poudres et salpêtres pour le Dictionnaire de
l’Artillerie, 1787 (Florence, 1997). He is currently preparing a
monography on translation of scientific and technical texts at the
end of the 18th century, and a biography of the mechanics,
industrial chemist and inventor, N.J. Conté.
Postal address: Patrice Bret
IRSEM
Case 46
1, place Joffre
F-75700 Paris SP 07
FRANCE
Treasurer
Wolfhard Weber, born 1940 in Bremen, Dr. phil. at Hamburg Univ. 1966, exam. for grammar schools 1966, Prof. 1976 (chair 1983) at Bochum Univ. for history of technology and economic history.
E-mail: wolfhard.weber@rub.de
Associate Journal Editor
Mark Henry Clark is currently Professor of History at the Oregon
institute of Technology (OIT), Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA.
E-mail: Mark.Clark@oit.edu
He is a cofounder
and pres. of the society for the history of technology in
Germany (GTG), pres. of the national committee of IUHPS/DHS
(national reports 1989, 1993, 1997, 2005), ICOHTEC- member
since 1974, member of the Executive Committee since 1985,
treasurer 1998 to 2009; co-organizer of the IUHPS congress (and
ICOHTEC symposium) in Hamburg/ Munich 1989, (co-)organizer
of ICOHTEC symposia Lerbach 1984 and Bochum 2004, member
of the commission for history of the assoc. of mechanical
engineers (VDI) 1975-2000 and of the assoc. of Iron and Steel
Producers (since 1970). Author and editor of the popular “Technik
- von den Anfaengen bis zur Gegenwart” 1982 (3 eds.); author in
the “Propylaeen Technikgeschichte” ed. by Wolfgang Koenig
1990; studies about North German Oil Imports 1865 to 1900; of
the beginnings of industrial mining in Germany 1760 to 1800,
about work safety, about historiography of technology in Germany
1945 to 1975; about the Ruhr Mining Area 1850 to 1914.
Festschrift: Manfred Rasch, Dietmar Bleidick (Hg.):
Technikgeschichte im Ruhrgebiet, Technikgeschichte für das
Ruhrgebiet. Essen 2004; publications on pages 979-988; for those
which were published after that see: www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/technikhist/litweber.htm
His
father, Colonel Scott Clark, was a career officer in the United
States Army. His mother Anneliese Buechner Clark, was born in
Germany. As a result, Dr. Clark lived in a variety of places in the
United States and Germany while growing up, and learned to
speak German as a youth. He was originally trained as an
engineer, and holds BS degree in Mechanical Engineering for
Rice University in Houston, Texas. He then went on to graduate
school in history, earning a Masters in Public History from the
University of Houston and a Ph.D. in the History of Technology
from the University of Delaware. His current research interests
are the development of engineering education and its
relationship to geek and nerd culture. He has taught at OIT since
1996, and has been a visiting professor at Aarhus University and
the Technical University of Denmark. In his free time he restores
classic English cars and is active on a number of community
boards of directors. He is married to Anne Hiller Clark, an
Associate Professor of Library Science at OIT.
Newsletter Editor
Stefan Poser, Ph.D., is a researcher and lecturer at Helmut-Schmidt
University, Hamburg, Germany.
E-mail: poser@hsu-hh.de
Webmaster
Sławomir Łotysz, Ph.D., is a researcher and lecturer at University of Zielona Gora, Poland.
E-mail: s.lotysz@gmail.com
In his PhD. thesis at Berlin Free University (1996) he
is dealing with the history of social museums. Technology and
play is one of his main topics of research. Recently edited books: “Zukunft der Ingenieure”, concerning engineering and the
Association of German Engineers, VDI Berlin (2006 – together
with S. Brandt), “Kalkuliertes Risiko”, dealing with technology, play
and risk (2006 – together with G. Gebauer et. al.), and the
exhibition catalogue "Spiel mit Technik" (2006) of the German
Museum of Technology in Berlin; the book analyses the playful
approach to technology.
Since 2005 he is the editor of the ICOHTEC
Newsletter.
Graduated from the Institute for the History of
Science, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2005. The current research interest
include: failed technologies, contribution of Polish
inventors and engineers, the history of bulletproof vest. His recent publications include: An alchemist or swindler? The case of Zbigniew Dunikowski (in Polish). "Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki" (Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology). 2009, Vol. 54, No 1, 63-82 pp.; The history of a dispute about an invention: Jan Szczepanik, Casimir Zeglen and the bulletproof vest (in Polish). "Analecta: Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki" (Analecta - Studies and Materials on the History of Science). 2009, No. 1-2, 349-366 pp.; Immersed tunnel technology: a brief history of its development (in English). "Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports," (2010), no 4, 97-110 pp. He can be found at academia.edu
He serves as an administrator of ICOHTEC website since 2007.
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