Lecturer, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Philosophy Department (1968-69) "Philosophy of Being."
Theology
Department: (1971-72) "Jesuit History and Spirituality".
Superior, Fusz Memorial House of Studies, St. Louis,
MO, 1970-1972.
Duties included functioning as superior of a community of young
Jesuit students enrolled as undergraduates at St. Louis University as well
as counseling approximately twenty five clients.
Instructor, Counselor, Institute
of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 1968
Instructor: Title One Remedial Reading Program
Counselor: As assigned by Dr. Lloyd New, Superintendent. Counseling
duties tended to pertain to students in crisis and included running an
emergency dormitory for chronic drinkers.
Cross-Cultural Experience, Pine
Ridge Oglala Lakota Reservation, Pine Ridge, SD (1964 - )
I owe much of my understanding of life, and especially of
cross-cultural tensions and relationships to the Lakota people of Pine
Ridge. Over the years the experience included the following: teaching and
counseling Indian students, many friendships in the Indian community, being
adopted by and living with the Weasel Bear family (summers: 1968-1969),
directing teenage recreational proram (summer: 1967), screening potential
volunteer workers for Red Cloud Indian School. Currently I spend two to
three weeks each summer on Pine Ridge, renewing old friendships and doing
some pastoral work.
ENDOWED LECTURES:
Boardman Lecture on Christian Ethics, The University of Pennsylvania, “Electric Lights Cast Long Shadows: Seeking the Greater Good in a World of Competing Clarities,” April 2005
Brotz Lecture: Marquette University School of Engineering, “Engineers as Moral Agents in a world of complex technological systems,” April 2005
Zeile Lecture: Valporaiso University "Engineers as Moral Agents in a world of complex technological systems," February 2005
Miller Lecture for Ethics and Science: MIT “When I say ‘we,’ Who is Talking: Ethical Implications of Pronoun Usage in Science and Technology Discourse,” May 2001
AFFILIATIONS
Society of Jesus (Jesuits): (1957-)
(Currently active Roman Catholic Priest in Archdiocese of Detroit)
Society for the History of Technology: (1974 - ) Usher Prize Committee (1981 -1984); Editorial Committee (1980 -1987); Executive Council (1983 -1986, 1991 - ); Dexter Prize Committee
(1991 -1993); Editor of Technology and Culture (1995 - )
Organization of American Historians (1979-)
Amnesty International (1984 - )
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (1986-)
CONSULTING
REFEREE:
MIT Press
John Hopkins University Press
Rutgers University Press
University of North Carolina Press
Technology
and Culture
Journal of American History
MUSEUMS:
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum
Henry and Clara Ford Estate
National Endowment for Humanities & National Science
Foundation: grant proposals, museum grants
Scientists' Institute for Public Information: (1985-). Available for reference by subscribing media reporters.
HISTORY ON TELEVISION:
"White Heat" [on camera & consultant] Uden Associates, London, The
Discovery Channel (1993)
"Edison" [on camera & consultant];
The American Experience WGBH
"America, 1900" [on camera
& consultant] David Grubin Productions for The American Experience,
Century of Discovery. (1998)
"George Eastman" [on
camera and consultant] Green Light Productions for The American Experience
(May 2000)
"Driving Force" [on camera] Quest Productions
(in production)
Getting Rich (on camera), David Grubin Productions
(in production).
BOARDS
Science, Technology & Society Advisory Board, Santa Clara University
(1999 -)
Regis University, Denver, CO (1992-2000)
Michigan Biotechnology Institute (1988 - 96)
Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Midwest (1984 - 89)
Editorial Board: Seminar for Jesuit Studies (1984 - 88)
AWARDS
"President's Award for Faculty Excellence" University of Detroit,
1989
"Teachers' Teacher" (Detroit Monthly, December 1992)
"Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding
of the Profession" (with Robert Post) IEEE United States Activities Board Award (1994)
"Engineering Teacher of the Year" College of Engineering &
Science, University of Detroit Mercy, (April 1995)
LECTURES
Auburn, Ball State, Bates College, Boston College, Brescia College,
Brookings Institution, La Cité des Sciences et de L'Industrie
(Paris), Case Western Reserve, Creighton University, Diocese of Des Moines,
Fairfield University, Sigma Xi Chapter (General Motors Warren Tech
Center), Gonzaga University, Harvard University, Henry Ford
Museum & Greenfield Village, London Science Museum, Loyola
University of Chicago, Marquette University, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, National Security Study Group (Workshop
on Social Implications of Technology), Naval Research Laboratory:Sigma
Xi Chapter, Northwestern University, Notre Dame University,
Oxford University, Pace University, Regis University (Denver),
St. Louis University, Santa Clara
University, São Bernardo
do Campo, Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial, São Paulo, Brasil,
Skirball Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Society of Civil Engineers, Stanford University,
Technical University of Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Technical University
of Trondheim (Norway), Templeton Lectures ( Xavier University, Wheeling
Jesuit University), Diocese of Tulsa, University of Connecticut, University of Dayton, University
of Kentucky, University of North Carolina, University of Oslo
(Norway), University of Pennsylvania, University of Twente
(The Netherlands), U.S. Army Chemical Defense Command, Wheeling University.
Also: workshops, keynote addresses etc. in less academic
settings: currently 4-5 per year
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Born: December 10, 1939, Marinette, Wisconsin
Interests: Hanging out with friends, motorcycling, gardening, music,
reading poetry & occasionally writing some, literature, athletics
(hiking, cross-country skiing, hollering at home games, esp. basketball)
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PUBLICATIONS
Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric,
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985) Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award (National Association
of Jesuit Colleges and Universities) 1986. Italian: I Cantastorie della
Tecnologia, Carlo Buora e Gianluca Lapini, trs., (Milan, Italy: Editoriale
Jaca Book 1988). Paperback edition: MIT Press, 1989.
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PUBLICATIONS: PROFESSIONAL
"Rationality, Agency, Contingency: Recent Trends in the History of Technology" in Reviews in American History, vol. 30 (2002):168-181 (Johns Hopkins University Press).
"Disciplined Imagination: the Life and Work of Tom and Agatha Hughes," preface for Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas and Agatha Hughes (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).
The Politics and Ethics of Engineering, ethics textbook -- limited edition published March 1999 as part of NSF Engineering Education Grant for the Greenfield Coalition (Detroit).
"Technological Literacy as a National Priority: Perspectives
and Challenges," for The National Academy of Engineering, September
1999 [commissioned paper].
"Denying the Holy Dark: The Enlightenment Ideal and the European
Mystical Tradition" in Progress: Fact or Illusion? Leo Marx
and Bruce Mazlish eds. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1996):
175-200.
"Technology" in Richard W. Fox and James Kloppenberg,
eds. A Companion to American Thought (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell 1995):667-69.
Problematic Stimulation: Historians and Sociologists Constructing
Technology Studies in Research in Philosophy and Technology Vol.
15 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc. 1995): 93-102.
"Henry Ford's Relationship to "Fordism": Ambiguity as
a Modality of Technological Resistance," in Martin Bauer ed. Resistance
to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology, and Biotechnology
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995):147-164.
"Rationality vs Contingency in the History of Technology,"
in Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx, eds., Does Technology Drive History?
The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
Spring 1994):259-74.
"Clean Exhibits, Messy Exhibits: Henry Ford's Technological
Aesthetic," in Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus ed., History and Technology
(Harwood Academic Publishers & Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie,
1993) Vol 10, pp. 55-65. French translation (Paris: Editions des Archives
Contemporaines, 1992): 171-189.
"Science and Technology: Who Gets a Say?" in Martin Bakker
and Peter Kroes eds., Technological Development and Science in the Industrial
Age: New Perspectives on the Science-Technology Relationship (Boston:
Kluwer 1992): 205-230
"Two Technocrats, Two Rouges: Henry Ford and Diego Rivera
as Contrasting Artists," Polhem: Tidskrift För Teknikhistoria 10:1 (1992):2-28.
"Recent Trends in the History of Technology," The American
Historical Review, 95 (June 1990): 715-25.
"The Perils of Progress Talk: Some Historical Considerations,"
in Science, Technology, and Social Progress, ed. S. Goldman, (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1989).
"U.S. Technological Style and the Atrophe of Civic Commitment,"
in Beyond Individualism: Toward a Retrieval of Moral Discourse in America,
Don Gelpi, ed. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989).
"The Politics of Successful Technologies," in In
Context: History and the History of Technology: Essays in Honor of Melvin Kranzberg, eds. Stephen Cutcliffe and Robert Post,
(Lehigh University Press, 1988).
What SHOT Hath Wrought and What SHOT Hath Not: Reflections
on Twenty Five Years of the Society for the History of Technology, Technology
and Culture Vol. 25 No. 4 (October, 1984): 707-730.
PUBLICATIONS: THEOLOGICAL
“Elegant Design is Not Enough: Embracing the Tangled “We” to Critique Technology” Keynote for Conference on The Role of Engineering at a Catholic University” University of Dayton, September 2005
“Electric Lights Cast Long Shadows: Seeking the Greater Good in a World of Competing Clarities,” Published in the Boardman Christian Ethics Lecture Series, The University of Pennsylvania, 2005.
"Technology" --- Reading the Signs of the Times in
Conversations
on Jesuit Higher Education No. 9 (Spring 1996):4-12.
"Relating to Technology as Moral Adults" Marquette
University Center for Ethics Studies: Annual Jesuit Lecture in Human Values
(November 1995).
"To Fall in Love with the World: Individualism and Self-Transcendence
in American Life" in
Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, St. Louis (26/3) May, 1994
"Computerization" and
"Technology" in Judith A. Dwyer,
ed.,
The New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought(Collegeville,
MN:
The Liturgical Press, Michael Glazier, 1994):217-222 & 936-39.
"The Media: Technique and Culture," Concilium:
Revue
Internationale de Théologie Nijmegen. 250 (1993):12-20.
"Technology: Reading the Signs of the Times," in T. Howland
Sanks and John A. Coleman, eds.
Reading the Signs of the Times: Resources
for Social and Cultural Analysis (New York:
Paulist Press, 1993):190-200.
"The Influence of Communications Technologies on Modern
American Culture: A Framework for Analysis," in
University of Dayton
Review V. 21, N. 1 (Spring 1991):77-96.
"Liturgy and Contemporary Technological Style," in
The New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship, ed. Peter E. Fink, S.J.
(New York:
Michael Glazier, 1990).
"Adult Commitment at Century's End: Some Technological Influences,"
in
The Crisis in Religious Vocations:An Inside View, ed. Laurie
Felknor, (New York:
Paulist Press, 1989):116-140.
Advent for Capitalists: Grief, Joy and Gender in Contemporary
Society, (1987 Nash Lecture, Campion College, University of Regina,
Regina)
Technology and Faith (10 audio cassettes)
National Catholic
Reporter: Credence Cassette Division, 1987
United States Technology and Adult Commitment, in
Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits(St. Louis, MO: The
American Assistancy Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality, January 1987).
Formation at Century's End: The Challenge for U.S. Religious,
Leadership Conference of Women Religious Newsletter Vol. 12, 3 (November 1985):1-2.
Technology and Culture in the U.S.: 1950 to the Present--A
Time of Upheaval, and Religious Formation in a Time of Cultural Turbulence,
in
Formation in the American Church: Proceedings, Religious Formation
Conference, Washington, DC, 1982.
PUBLICATIONS: POPULAR
"Henry Ford", Oxford Companion to United States History
(forthcoming)
"Detroit" Encarta Online Encyclopedia 1998 (c. 5
pages)
"Henry Ford's Big Flaw",
The American Heritage
of Invention and Technology 10/2 (Fall 1994):34-44.
"The Frailties and Beauties of Technological Creativity,"
Interview given to Robert C. Post for
The American Heritage of
Invention and Technology, Vol 8, No. 4 (Spring 1993): 16-24.
(Award: For Literary Contributions Furthering Engineering Professionalism:
IEEE Activities Board, 1994)
"Technology and the Search for Community" Chicago
Studies V. 31, N. 2 (August 1992): 186-88.
"The Spirituality of Advent," America, (December
2, 1989):403.
"Restoring the Lost Art: Storytelling, Electronic Media,
and Fragmented Public Discourse," The Way, (October 1988).
"Technological Literacy: A Challenge for Educators,"
Momentum (September 1988).
"
Thoughts on Middle Age and Jonah's Lament," Human
Development Summer, 1986.
"Hidden Assumptions in Technology Talk: An Agenda for
the Christian Imagination," New Catholic World, 1981
"Hope Amid Darkness," Catholic Rural Life Magazine,
1980.
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REVIEWS: BOOKS & MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Fordism for Architects, review essay of Albert Kahn:
Architect of Ford Federico Bucci (Princeton Architectural Press 1993)
in Design Book Review Issue 35/36 Winter/Spring 1995, pp 36-37.
Bryan, Ford R., Henry's Lieutenants (Detroit, MI: Wayne
State University Press 1993) Michigan Historical Review (Summer
1994):122-23.
"Made in America" (permanent exhibit, Henry Ford Museum)
Journal of American History 80,3 (December 1993):1014-1019.
Cooper, Carolyn C., Shaping Invention: Thomas Blanchard's
Machinery and Patent Management in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991) The American Historical
Review (in press)
Lucic, Karen Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1991) Technology
and Culture 33,4 (October 1992):799-800.
LaFollette, Marcel C., Making Science Our Own: Public
Images of Science 1910-1955 (Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1990) American
Historical Review 97, 1 (February 1992):158-59.
Leiss, William. Under Technology's Thumb, (Montreal/Kingston/London:
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990) Isis 83:4 (1992):641-42.
Vincent, Walter G., What Engineers Know and How They Know
It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins U. Press, 1990) Technology Review (July 1991):66-67.
Hill, Stephen, The Tragedy of Technology: Human Liberation versus
Domination in the late Twentieth Century (Isis Vol. 82, No.
1 [1991]:170-71)
"Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860,"
(National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution) Journal of American History, 77 (June 1990):217-21.
Davis, Donald Finlay, Conspicuous Production: Automobiles
and Elites in Detroit, 1899-1933 (Technology
and Culture 31,
2 (April 1990): 316-317.
Shoshonah Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The
Future of Work and Power (Technology
and Culture, 31, 1 (January
1990): 192-94.
"Advertising History" (Review Essay of 8 recent books in
advertising history and theory, co-authored with Pamela Walker Laird) Technology
and Culture 30,4 (October 1989):1031-1036.
Flink, James J., The Automobile Age (Michigan Historical
Review, 15:2 (Fall 1989): 90.
Constance G. Anthony, Mechanization and Maize: Agriculture
and the Politics of Technology Transfer in East Africa (Isis,
80:2:302 (1989):350-51)
Samuel C. Florman, The Civilized Engineer (Isis,
79:4:299 (1988):717-18)
"The Automobile in American Life," (Henry Ford Museum Exhibit)
The Public Historian, 10,3 (Summer 1988):89-92.
"The Giant Wakens: Revising Henry Ford's History Book," Technology
and Culture, 29, 1 (January 1988):118-124.
Cecelia Tichi, Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture
in Modernist America [Science, Technology & Society, LeHigh University,
N. 61, (September 1987)10-11]
Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making
Way for Modernity, 1920-1940 [Society for Commercial Architecture Newsletter
1987]
Merritt Roe Smith, ed Military Enterprise and Technological
Change: Perspectives on the American Experience, [Isis, 1986]
Howard Segal, Technological Utopianism in American Culture,
[Ohio History 1985].
Joan Rothschild, ed. Machina Ex Dea: Feminist Perspectives
on Technology [Technology and Culture 1985]
Evelyn Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism [Technology
and Culture, 1985]
Robert Theobald, Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the
Communications Era, [Technology
and Culture, 1983]
Robert Linhart, The Assembly Line, [Technology and
Culture, 1983]Stephen Meyer, III, The Five Dollar Day: Labor, Management,
and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1909-1921, [Detroit in
Perspective: A Journal of Regional History, 1982]
Wyn Wachhorst, Thomas Alva Edison: An American Myth,
[Science, 1982]
Robert Conot, A Streak of Luck: The Life and Legend of
Thomas Alva Edison, [Ohio History, 1980]
Robert Nelson, Science and Our Troubled Conscience,
[Catholic Rural Life Magazine, 1980]
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
and John Jerome, Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-out Pickup, and Other Post-technological Adventures [Technology
and Culture, 1978]
Christine Roysdon and Linda A. Khatri, eds., American
Engineers of the Nineteenth Century: A Biographical Index, [Isis,
1979]
F. R. Jevons, Knowledge and Power: Lectures by F. R. Jevons
[Technology
and Culture, 1977]
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