Faculty Member, Science, Technology and Society
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Thesis Title: Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
Brian Balogh
About
I am a historian of technology and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (MIT Press, 2008). My general field of research is modern technology, with a particular emphasis on streets, people, and vehicles in the early twentieth-century city. My most recent article is "Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street," Technology and Culture 48 (April 2007), 331-359. I am active in the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, and in the Society for the History of Technology.
Contact Information
Dept of Science, Technology and Society
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400744
Charlottesville VA 22904-4744 USA
434-243-8794
