John Krige

Kranzberg Professor

John Krige (PhD, Physical Chemistry, Pretoria, 1965; PhD, Philosophy, Sussex, 1979) is an historian who specializes on the place of science and technology in the postwar reconstruction of Europe. He was a member of a multinationl team that wrote the history of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the leader of the project that produced a two-volume history of the European Space Agency. Krige is the editor of the journal History and Technology and has served on the editorial board of the several other journals. His current research deals with the use of science and technology as instruments of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War, notably in its relations with Western Europe. His new book, American Hegemony and Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe, was published by the MIT Press in 2006. He also edited (with Kai Henrik Barth, Georgetown University ), Vol. 21 of OSIRIS entitled Global Power Knowledge. Science and Technology in International Affairs (University of Chicago Press, 2006). In academic Year 2004-5, Krige was the Charles E. Lindberg Professor of Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. In May 2005 he was awarded the Henry W. Dickinson medal by the (British) Newcomen Society for the Study of Technology and Society. In Fall 2006 Krige was a Visiting Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.

Contact Information: D.M. Smith 302
Phone: 404.894.7765;
E-mail: john.krige@hts.gatech.edu