Faculty

Amy Bix

Associate Professor
Co-Director
History of Technology and Science Program

633 Ross Hall
Dept. of History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-0122
Email: abix@iastate.edu

Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
 
Research and Teaching Interests
American Women's History
History of American Technology, Science and Medicine
History of Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine
History of Science Policy
20th Century American History
 
Selected Publications
"Bessie Coleman: Race and Gender Realities Behind Aviation Dreams," Realizing the Dream of Flight, (Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005): 1-27.

"Engineering National Defense: Technical Education at Land-Grant Institutions during World War II," Engineering in a Land-Grant Context: The Past, Present, and Future of an Idea, (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Univ. Press, 2005): 105-133.

"Biology and ‘Created Nature’: Gender and the Body in Popular Islamic Literature from Modern Turkey and the West," Taner Edis and Amy Bix, Arab Studies Journal, v. XII no. 2/v. XIII no. 1 (fall 2004/spring 2005): 140-158.

Introduction to Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches by Elizabeth Blackwell, (Amherst: Prometheus books, 2005): 9-41.

"Technology and the African-American Experience: A Bibliographical Essay," Technology and the African-American Experience, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004).
 
"From Engineeresses to Girl Engineers to Good Engineers: A History of Women's American Engineering Education", National Women's Studies Association Journal v. 16, no. 1 (spring 2004): 27-49.
 
"Engendering Alternatives: Feminist Medical Rebels and Women's Health-Care Choices, 1965-1999, The Politics of Healing: A History of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America, Robert D. Johnston, ed.; (New York: Routledge, 2003).
 
"Equipped For Life: Gendered Technical Training and Consumerism In Home-Economics, 1920-1980", Technology and Culture v. 43, no. 4 (Oct. 2002): 728-754.
 
"History of Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine", Transforming the Disciplines: A Women's Studies Primer (New York: Haworth Pr., 2001): 193-201.
 
"Feminism Where Men Predominate: The History of Women's Science and Engineering Education at MIT", Women's Studies Quarterly XXVIII,1 & 2 (2000): 24-45.
 
Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Depression-Era Debate over Technological Unemployment, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
 
"Diseases Chasing Money and Power: Breast Cancer and AIDS Activism Challenging Authority," Health Care Policy in Contemporary America, Alan I. Marcus and Hamilton Cravens, eds., (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997): 5-32.
 
"Experiences and Voices of Eugenics Field-Workers: 'Women's Work' in Biology"; Social Studies of Science, v. 27, no. 4 (August, 1997): 625-668.
 
"'Backing into Sponsored Research': Physics and Engineering at Princeton University, 1945- 1970"; History of Higher Education Annual 1993 - The Modern University; v. 13 (1993): 9-52.

Research in Progress
Engineering Education for American Women: An Intellectual, Institutional and Social History
 
Courses Taught
Survey of United States History II
Introduction to History of Technology and Engineering I
Introduction to History of Technology and Engineering II
American Popular Culture
History of Women in Science, Technology, and Medicine
History of Women in America
Science, Technology, Medicine, and Public Policy
History of American Technology
Seminar in General History of Technology II
Seminar in 19th Century Technology
Seminar in Early 20th Century Technology
 
Professional Activity
Society for the History of Technology:
SHOT Executive Secretary, 2004-7; elected 2003
 
History of Science Society:
HSS Finance Committee
 
Midwest Junto for the History of Science:
President, 2004-5
 
National Women's Studies Association:
Senior Associate Editor, National Women's Studies Association Journal
 
Organization of American Historians:
Membership Committee, 2002-2006