Amy Bix

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Amy Sue Bix
NationalityAmerican
Known forhistory of technology, history of medicine, women and gender studies
Academic background
EducationPh.D., History of Science, Johns Hopkins University (1994) Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Princeton University (1987)

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.

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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. [2] At Princeton, she was one of the founders of The Princeton Tory , a conservative student magazine. [3]

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. [2]

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:

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References

  1. 1 2 "Amy Bix". Directory. Iowa State University Women's and Gender Studies Program. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  2. 1 2 Bix, Amy Sue (September 2017). "Curriculum vitae". Iowa State University. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  3. Dietze, Jane (October 5, 1984). "New campus conservative journal strives for intellectual approach". The Daily Princetonian. Vol. 108, no. 90.
  4. "Consortium for the History of Technology and Science". Iowa State University Department of History. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  5. "Congratulations, university award recipients". Inside Iowa State for faculty and staff. Iowa State University. May 4, 2023. Retrieved 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, doi : 10.1037/a0012396
  8. Reviews of Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?:
  9. "Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize, recipient 2021". Society for the History of Technology. January 20, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  10. "Martha Trescott Prize recipient 2021". Society for the History of Technology. January 26, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  11. "Past recipients". Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession. IEEE. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  12. "The Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize". History of Science Society. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  13. "WEPAN Awards". Women in Engineering ProActive Network. Retrieved 2023-09-08.