Steven Usselman
Associate Professor
(PhD, University of Delaware, 1985) specializes in the history of technology and American political economy. He has published more than two dozen articles and book chapters, including many pertaining to the history of computing and communications. His book, Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2002) won the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Hilton Prize in railroad history. His edited book, The Challenge of Remaining Innovative: Insights from Twentieth-Century American Business (Stanford University Press) will appear in late 2008. In addition, his essay "IBM and Its Imitators" won the Newcomen Prize from the Business History Conference, which has also awarded him its Williamson Prize for mid-career achievement in the field of business history. Dr. Usselman is currently at work on a book on computing innovation and American political economy since 1920 and a series of studies on technology and policy in the global pulp and paper industry. 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. In 2007-2008, he served as the president of the Society for the History of Technology.
- Contact Information
- Old Civil Engineering Building, Room 137
Phone: 404.894.8718
E-mail: steve.usselman@hts.gatech.edu
