Organization of Educational Historians Annual Meeting
September 26-September 27, 2025
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE and
ONLINE EXPERIENCE!
"(Re)member, (Re)imagine, (Re)construct: The Role of Educational History in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
Extended proposal deadline: July 15, 2025
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, 2025
Dr. Amy Bix
Iowa State University
Professor in the History Department
Director of the Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science
Dr. Amy Bix serves as a full professor in the History Department at Iowa State University, where she also serves as the Director of the Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science. Her dissertation at Johns Hopkins University was entitled Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981, a notable work that was recognized as one of the American Library Association's Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles at that time. Her other book-length works include Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press, 2013) and, in a work co-authored with Alan I. Marcus, The Future is Now: Science and Technology Policy in America Since 1950. Included among her many article and chapter publications are entries such as these:
Bix, A. (2020). Making an Impact. A History of Technology Perspective on “Making Europe”. TG Technikgeschichte, 87(3), 253-259.
Bix, A. (2013) Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the History of Technology in Society. In Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology. Scarecrow Press. 235-253.
Bix, A. S. (2004). From" engineeresses" to" girl engineers" to" good engineers": a history of women's US engineering education. NWSA journal, 27-49.
Dr. Bix has delivered numerous conference papers and research presentations for a variety of educational, historical, and technologically themed events, such as the Society for the History of Technology, the Association of Women in Computing, Society for the History of Children and Youth, the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, the Organization of American Historians, International Committee for the History of Technology, the American Cultural Association, the American Historical Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and many others.
Her current book in progress, according to her Iowa State University profile, is Recruiting Engineer Jane and Astrophysicist Amy, focuses, as she notes, on the argument that “one of the most distinctive changes in modern science and technology is not any specific discovery or technique, but a powerful cultural shift.”
Dr. Bix’s keynote speech will surely bring new light to the intersection of history and technology as it relates to education and we hope you will join us at the conference to hear it!
Bix, A. (2020). Making an Impact. A History of Technology Perspective on “Making Europe”. TG Technikgeschichte, 87(3), 253-259.
Bix, A. (2013) Steve Jobs versus the Victorians: Steampunk, Design, and the History of Technology in Society. In Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology. Scarecrow Press. 235-253.
Bix, A. S. (2004). From" engineeresses" to" girl engineers" to" good engineers": a history of women's US engineering education. NWSA journal, 27-49.
Dr. Bix has delivered numerous conference papers and research presentations for a variety of educational, historical, and technologically themed events, such as the Society for the History of Technology, the Association of Women in Computing, Society for the History of Children and Youth, the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, the Organization of American Historians, International Committee for the History of Technology, the American Cultural Association, the American Historical Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and many others.
Her current book in progress, according to her Iowa State University profile, is Recruiting Engineer Jane and Astrophysicist Amy, focuses, as she notes, on the argument that “one of the most distinctive changes in modern science and technology is not any specific discovery or technique, but a powerful cultural shift.”
Dr. Bix’s keynote speech will surely bring new light to the intersection of history and technology as it relates to education and we hope you will join us at the conference to hear it!
