Georgia Institute of TechnologySchool of History, Technology, and Society
School of History, Technology, and Society

Research

The School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS) is composed of historians and sociologists. Despite their wide array of interests in their respective disciplines, the HTS faculty has particular strengths in several areas: technology, science, and culture; education and the workplace; gender, race, and ethnicity; industry and economy; landscape and the environment; Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and politics, culture, and social change.

Faculty Research Areas

Technology, Science, and Culture
Amanda Damarin (industry, technology)
August Giebelhaus (industry, technology)
Kenneth Knoespel (science, technology)
John Krige (science, technology)
Willie Pearson Jr. (race, science)
Sue Rosser (gender, science)
John Lawrence Tone (medicine)
Steven Usselman (industry, technology)
Education and the Workplace
Amanda Damarin (work)
Douglas Flamming (labor)
Gregory Nobles (labor)
Willie Pearson Jr. (race, science, education)
Jonathan Schneer (British labor)
Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Eleanor Alexander (African American)
Ronald Bayor (ethnicity, race relations, immigration)
Laura Bier (Middle East, gender)
Douglas Flamming (African American)
Lawrence Foster (gender, family, sexuality)
Carla Gerona (Early America, Atlantic World, Borderlands)
Willie Pearson Jr. (race)
Sue Rosser (gender)
Industry and Economy
Amanda Damarin (industry, economy)
Douglas Flamming (labor, industry)
August Giebelhaus (industry, economy)
Steven Usselman (industry, economy)
Landscape and Environment
Kenneth Knoespel (England)
Gregory Nobles (American)
Jonathan Schneer
Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
Laura Bier (Middle East, Europe)
Kenneth Knoespel (Europe, Scandinavia, Russia)
Hanchao Lu (China, Japan)
Carole E. Moore (Europe)
Jonathan Schneer (Europe, Britain)
John Lawrence Tone (Europe, Spain, Cuba)
Politics, Culture, and Social Change
Ronald Bayor (urban)
Lawrence Foster (revolutions)
Carla Gerona (Early America, Atlantic World, Borderlands)
Hanchao Lu (urban, material culture)
Jonathan Schneer (labor politics)
John Lawrence Tone (Spain, Cuba, French Revolution)
Steven Usselman (industry, politics)
Bill Winders (social movements, national policies, elections)

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Historians

  • Eleanor Alexander
  • Ronald Bayor
  • Laura Bier
  • Douglas Flamming
  • Lawrence Foster
  • Carla Gerona
  • August Giebelhaus
  • Kenneth Knoespel
  • John Krige
  • Hanchao Lu
  • Carole E. Moore
  • Gregory Nobles
  • Jonathan Schneer
  • John Lawrence Tone
  • Steven Usselman

Sociologists

  • Amanda Damarin
  • Willie Pearson Jr.
  • Sue Rosser
  • Bill Winders