Amy Bix

Amy Sue Bix
Nationality	American
Known for	history of technology, history of medicine, women and gender studies
Academic background
Education	Ph.D., History of Science, Johns Hopkins University (1994) Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Princeton University (1987)

Amy Sue Bix is an American historian of science, technology and medicine whose research topics include studies of women and gender, the history of education, and twentieth-century social, cultural, and intellectual history. She is a distinguished professor of history at Iowa State University.

Education and career

Bix grew up in the Chicago area.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Princeton University in 1987, with Sigma Xi honors.[2] At Princeton, she was one of the founders of The Princeton Tory, a conservative student magazine.[3]

In 1994, she earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation, Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981, was selected as one of the American Library Association's Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles.[2]

Bix has been a history professor at Iowa State University since 1993.[1] In 2007 she became the director of Iowa State's Consortium for the History of Technology and Science.[4] May 2023 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.[5]

Books

Bix's books include:

• Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press, 2013)[6]
• The Future is Now: Science and Technology Policy in America Since 1950 (with Alan I. Marcus, Humanity Books, 2007)[7]
• Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)[8]

Honors and awards

Bix is the recipient of:

• The 2022 Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)[9]
• The 2021 Martha Trescott Prize of SHOT[10]
• The 2015 Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession of the IEEE[11]
• The 2015 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize of the History of Science Society[12]
• The 2014 Betty Vetter Award for Research of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN)[13]

References

1. "Amy Bix". Directory. Iowa State University Women's and Gender Studies Program. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
2. Bix, Amy Sue (September 2017). "Curriculum vitae". Iowa State University. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
3. Dietze, Jane (October 5, 1984). "New campus conservative journal strives for intellectual approach". The Daily Princetonian. Vol. 108, no. 90.
4. "Consortium for the History of Technology and Science". Iowa State University Department of History. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
5. "Congratulations, university award recipients". Inside Iowa State for faculty and staff. Iowa State University. May 4, 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
6. Reviews of Girls Coming to Tech!:
   • Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings, Choice, doi:10.5860/CHOICE.169370
   • Amy E. Foster, Isis, doi:10.1086/681874, JSTOR 10.1086/681874
   • Kimberly A. Hamlin, The American Historical Review, JSTOR 26577370
   • Maria Klawe, "Opening Doors to Engineering", Science, JSTOR 24743400
   • Neelam Kumar, International Journal of Gender, Science & Technology, [1]
   • Clarissa Ai Ling Lee, East Asian Science, Technology and Society, doi:10.1215/18752160-3494390
   • Nina E. Lerman, "The Culture of Unexpectation", The Women's Review of Books, JSTOR 26433065
   • Bianca Prietl, Technikgeschichte, [2]
   • Kael R. Sharman, Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation, [3]
   • Corinna Schlombs, Technology and Culture, JSTOR 44017076
   • Leonie Maria Tanczer, LSE Review of Books, [4]
   • Robin Tatu, "On the shelf: Gentle invasion", ASEE Prism, JSTOR 43747559
   • Kim Tolley, History of Education Quarterly, JSTOR 26356259
   • Karin Zachmann, Icon, JSTOR 44242745
7. Review of The Future is Now:
   • Stephen D. Nelson, "Science's policy (and political) environment", PsycCRITIQUES, doi:10.1037/a0012396
8. Reviews of Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?:
   • Horst Brand, "Technological unemployment", Monthly Labor Review, JSTOR 41845368
   • Howard Brick, The Business History Review, doi:10.2307/3116492, JSTOR 3116492
   • Gary Cross, The Journal of American History, doi:10.2307/2675209, JSTOR 2675209
   • Ester Fano, Technology and Culture, JSTOR 25147767
   • Don Lamberton, Prometheus, doi:10.1080/08109020050172708
   • George Lipsitz, The American Historical Review, doi:10.2307/2693032, JSTOR 2693032
   • David W. Noble, Isis, doi:10.1086/386416, JSTOR 10.1086/386416
   • Michael J. Polzin, Labor Studies Journal, doi:10.1177/0160449X01026002
   • Robert Zieger, H-Net, [5]
9. "Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize, recipient 2021". Society for the History of Technology. January 20, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
10. "Martha Trescott Prize recipient 2021". Society for the History of Technology. January 26, 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
11. "Past recipients". Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession. IEEE. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
12. "The Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize". History of Science Society. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
13. "WEPAN Awards". Women in Engineering ProActive Network. Retrieved 2023-09-08.