List of Contributors
Articles
Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution
Arthur P. Molella is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of science from Cornell University, and an honorary doctorate of science from Westminster University, London. He was head curator of Science in American Life, the Smithsonian's permanent exhibition on science and society. He is co-editor (with Joyce Bedi) of Inventing for the Environment (2003). A specialist on technology and culture, he is co-author, with Robert Kargon, of Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the 20th Century, to be published in 2008. He can be reached at <molellaa@si.edu>.
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA
An anthropologist who received his master's degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, Robert Lemelson is a research anthropologist at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. His areas of specialty are Southeast Asian studies, psychological anthropology, and transcultural psychiatry. He is also the president of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, which funds interdisciplinary research in neuroscience, psychiatry, and anthropology. He also serves as a director of the Lemelson Foundation, a family foundation whose mission is to promote innovation and invention in American society and the developing world.
Nottingham Trent University, UK
Ian Inkster is a research professor of international history at Nottingham Trent University, U.K., visiting professor of global history in the Department of International Cultural Studies, Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also convenor of the British [End Page 224] Academy Network Workshops on Patents in History and editor of the British journal History of Technology. His recent books include The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation (2001), and Japanese Industrialisation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (2001). He can be reached at <ian@ink-ster.org.uk>.
University of Virginia
W. Bernard Carlson is a professor at the University of Virginia, with appointments in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society (School of Engineering) and the Department of History. He has written extensively on major U.S. inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, and is especially concerned with identifying ways in which technology can be integrated into both U.S. and world history. His books include the seven-volume Technology in World History (2005), which was developed for the public library market. With support from the Sloan Foundation, he is currently completing a biography of the inventor Nikola Tesla. He can be reached at <wc4p@virginia.edu>.
Centre for International Programmes, Empire State College/SUNY, Athens
Esther K. Hicks is a cultural anthropologist and historian of the Near and Middle East by training. Her professional background has been in university teaching, administration, and research. She has also worked with the Directorate-General for International Development Cooperation (the Netherlands) at the policy-advisory and project-development level. More recently, she was a senior research consultant for Stanford Research Institute International, involved with conducting outcome assessments of the five Fulbright educational-exchange flagship programs. She currently holds the position of Academic Programme Director in Athens, Greece, for the Centre for International Programmes, Empire State College/SUNY. She can be reached at <Esther.Hicks@esc.edu>.
University of Toronto
Halla Thorsteinsdóttir is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, and a member of the Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health. She completed her doctoral studies in science and technology policy in 1999 at SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, U.K. Prior to that, she completed her master's degree in development economics from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Maud Menten...
