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Amy Sue Bix
Nationality:American
Education:Ph.D., History of Science, Johns Hopkins University (1994) Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Princeton University (1987)
Known For:history of technology, history of medicine, women and gender studies

Amy Sue Bix is an American historian of science, technology and medicine whose research topics include studies of women and gender, the history of education, and twentieth-century social, cultural, and intellectual history. She is a distinguished professor of history at Iowa State University.

Education and career

Bix grew up in the Chicago area.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Princeton University in 1987, with Sigma Xi honors. At Princeton, she was one of the founders of The Princeton Tory, a conservative student magazine.[2]

In 1994, she earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation, Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981, was selected as one of the American Library Association's Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles.[3]

Bix has been a history professor at Iowa State University since 1993.[1] In 2007 she became the director of Iowa State's Consortium for the History of Technology and Science.[4] May 2023 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.[5]

Books

Bix's books include:

Honors and awards

Bix is the recipient of:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amy Bix . 2023-06-08 . Directory. Iowa State University Women's and Gender Studies Program.
  2. News: Dietze. Jane. New campus conservative journal strives for intellectual approach. 90. The Daily Princetonian. 108. October 5, 1984.
  3. Web site: Curriculum vitae. Amy Sue. Bix. September 2017 . 2023-06-08. Iowa State University.
  4. Web site: Consortium for the History of Technology and Science . 2023-06-03 . Iowa State University Department of History.
  5. Web site: Congratulations, university award recipients. Inside Iowa State for faculty and staff. Iowa State University. May 4, 2023 . 2023-06-03.
  6. Reviews of Girls Coming to Tech!:
  7. Review of The Future is Now:
    • Stephen D. Nelson, "Science's policy (and political) environment", PsycCRITIQUES,
  8. Reviews of Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?:
    • Horst Brand, "Technological unemployment", Monthly Labor Review,
    • Howard Brick, The Business History Review,,
    • Gary Cross, The Journal of American History,,
    • Ester Fano, Technology and Culture,
    • Don Lamberton, Prometheus,
    • George Lipsitz, The American Historical Review,,
    • David W. Noble, Isis,,
    • Michael J. Polzin, Labor Studies Journal,
    • Robert Zieger, H-Net, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=4532
  9. Web site: January 20, 2022 . Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize, recipient 2021 . 2023-06-03 . Society for the History of Technology.
  10. Web site: January 26, 2022 . Martha Trescott Prize recipient 2021 . 2023-06-03 . Society for the History of Technology . en.
  11. Web site: Past recipients. Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession. IEEE. 2023-09-08.
  12. Web site: The Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize. History of Science Society. 2023-09-08.
  13. Web site: WEPAN Awards. Women in Engineering ProActive Network. 2023-09-08.

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