Amy Slaton

Position:	Associate Professor & Asst. Department Head
Field:	History of technology
Office:	3025 MacAlister
Phone:	(215) 895-2061
Email:	slatonae@drexel.edu
Office Hours:	click here for current office hours

 

Personal Statement

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Education

• B.A., Fine Arts and Art History, Northwestern University, 1978
• M.F.A., Painting and Printmaking, Pratt Institute, 1980
• Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1995

 

Recent Publications

• Excluded from the Future: Historical Perspectives on the Under-representation of African Americans in Engineering (forthcoming, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press)
• Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930. Studies in the History of Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

 

Courses Usually Taught

• HIST 222 -- History of Work & Workers in America
• HIST 285 -- Technology in Historical Perspective
• HIST 292 -- Technology in American Life
• HIST 332 -- Junior Seminar
• HIST 301 -- The Study of History
• HIST 501 -- Intro to Science, Technology & Society
• HIST 697 -- MSTS Practicum
• HIST 699 -- MSTS Seminar