Steven Usselman

Associate Professor

(PhD, University of Delaware, 1985) specializes in the history of technology and American political economy. He has written numerous articles and book chapters and one book, Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). It received the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Hilton Prize in railroad history. A second book, tentatively entitled IBM and the Dynamics of Innovation in American Computing, should appear soon. Professor Usselman serves as Associate Director of Research with the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies, a joint venture of Georgia Tech and the Sloan Foundation. He has developed innovative uses of high-speed Internet technologies in education and also participates in a variety of initiatives to integrate history and the social sciences with engineering education. He is currently Vice President/President Elect of the Society for the History of Technology.

Contact Information: D.M. Smith 315
Phone: 404.894.8718
E-mail: steve.usselman@hts.gatech.edu