Jones-Imhotep, Edward -

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Edward
Last Name: 
Jones-Imhotep
Department / Program: 
Science and Technology Studies, York
University Affiliation: 
York University
Phone: 
4167362100
Extension: 
30104
Email Address: 
imhotep@yorku.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Science
Technology
Geographical Region: 
Europe
North America
Time Period: 
20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of canadian ionospheric research; history and philosophy of cold-war electronics; the historical interrelations of technoscience and identity; the cultural-technical histories of our trust in machines
Academics
PHD Program: 
History of Science
PHD University: 
Harvard University
PHD Date: 
2001
Major Publications: 
The Unreliable Nation: Nature and Technology in Cold-War Canada 2008. "Sound and Vision," Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 6 (2012): 192-202. "Maintaining Humans," in The Construction of Social Science in Cold War America, eds. Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 225-243. "Communicating the North: Scientific Practice and Postwar Canadian Identity," Osiris 24 (2009): 144-164. "Icons and Electronics," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 38 (2008): 405-450. "Philosophy of Science: the Analytic Tradition," (with David Castle) in Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophies, ed. Constantin Boundas, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), 270-284. "Laboratory Cultures," Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 28 (2005): 7-26.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
History of Science Society Society for the History of Technology Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association
Courses Taught: 
NATS 1760C