Faculty
Ivan Allen College has more than 140 permanent faculty members. All have PhDs and many are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields. All permanent faculty teach undergraduate courses.
(Listings for temporary faculty and academic professionals are maintained on the individual school websites which may be accessed from the home page)
History, Technology, and Society Faculty
Eleanor C. Alexander
Associate Professor
Dr. Eleanor Alexander joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1996. She is an Associate Professor of History in the School of History, Technology, and Society. She received her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University. She has a M.A. in American Culture from the University of Delaware [Winterthur Program], and a M.L.S. (continues)
Wenda K. Bauchspies
Associate Professor
Professor Wenda K. Bauchspies is a sociologist specializing in science, technology, and gender in West Africa from a cultural perspective. She earned her MEd from Towson State University and her PhD in science and technology studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests include science education, women and schooling, everyday technologies in a mid-sized West African city, and the adoption of new varieties of rice in West Africa. (continues)
Ronald H. Bayor
Professor
Dr. Ronald H. Bayor received his Ph.D (1970) from the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1983. He served as chair of the School of History, Technology, and Society from 2006 - 2011. He specializes in urban, ethnic, immigration, and race relations history. (continues)
Laura E. Bier
Assistant Professor
Dr. Laura Bier is an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. She is a social and cultural historian with a specialty in post-colonial Egyptian history. She received her PhD from New York University in History and Middle East Studies. She has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright and a Fulbright-Hays for her research on gender and state socialism in Egypt. (continues)
Douglas Flamming
Professor
Dr. Douglas Flamming joined the School of History, Technology, and Society faculty as an Associate Professor in 1997 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2006. He earned his PhD in History from Vanderbilt University in 1987, taught briefly at Virginia Tech, and then joined the faculty of Caltech, where he taught for nine years. (continues)
Lawrence Foster
Professor
Dr. Lawrence Foster is a Professor of American History in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He received his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1976 under Martin Marty and has taught at Georgia Tech since 1977. Foster specializes in American religious and social history, with strong interests in Modern European and comparative history, as well. (continues)
Carla Gerona
Assistant Professor
Dr. Carla Gerona is an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, and her areas of interest include Early American, Atlantic, and Borderlands history. She received a BA from Columbia University, an MA from the University of California, Irvine, and an MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. (continues)
Kenneth Knoespel
McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts
Dr. Knoespel is McEver Professor of Engineering and the Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech with appointments in the School of History, Technology, and Society; the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture; and adjunct apointment in the College of Architecture. Knoespel has published widely visualization and science studies in early modern Europe. (continues)
Gerhard John Krige
Kranzberg Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. John Krige has a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Sussex (Brighton, U.K.). He joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 as Kranzberg Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. (continues)
Hanchao Lu
Professor
Dr. Hanchao Lu received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society in 1994 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2001. He served as Director of Graduate Studies in Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society from 2004 to 08. (continues)
Kristie Macrakis
Professor
Kristie Macrakis is Professor in the School of History, Technology and Society at Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D in the history of science from Harvard University. She came to Tech in 2009 and teaches courses in the history of science and espionage. Her books include Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (Oxford, 1994), Science Under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective (Harvard, 1997), East German Foreign Intelligence (Routledge, 2010) and Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World (Cambridge, 2008) (Translated into German, Czech and Slovak and a History Book Club Selection). (continues)
Carole Moore
Professor, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (GT)
Carole Moore (PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara) finds time from her responsibilities as the Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs to offer courses in ancient and medieval history. She is the director of the Oxford Study Abroad Program.
Gregory Nobles
Professor, Director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program
Dr. Gregory Nobles came to Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society in 1983. He is now Professor of history, specializing in early American history and environmental history, and, since 2005, director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program. His fourth and most recent book,Whose American Revolution Was It?: Historians Interpret the Founding, co-authored with Alfred F. Young, was published by New York University Press in 2011. (continues)
Willie Pearson
Professor
Dr. Willie Pearson, Jr. (Professor; PhD, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1981) is a professor of sociology in the School of History, Technology, and Society. In 1993, he received Southern Illinois University's College of Liberal Arts' Alumni Achievement Award. He specializes in the sociology of science and sociology of the family. (continues)
Jonathan Schneer
Professor
Dr. Jonathan Schneer, who received his BA from McGill University in 1971 and his PhD from Columbia University in 1978, is the modern British historian at Georgia Tech in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He is a co-editor of two books, and the author of six more, including London 1900; (continues)
Jennifer S. Singh
Assistant Professor
Jennifer S. Singh is Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, San Francisco and specializes in medical sociology and science and technology studies. She is interested in the intersections of genetics, health and society and draws on her experiences of working in the biotechnology industry as a molecular biologist and as a public health researcher at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (continues)
Jenny Leigh Smith
Assistant Professor
Jenny Leigh Smith received her BA in biology and French from Macalester College and her PhD from MIT in the history and anthropology of science, technology, and society. Most recently, she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Yale University in the history of science and the history of medicine. (continues)
John L. Tone
Professor, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Dr. John Lawrence Tone is Professor of History in the School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS). He is also the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts since January 1, 2008. He specializes in Spanish and Cuban military history and the history of medicine. (continues)
Steven W. Usselman
Professor, School Chair
Dr. Steven W. Usselman is a Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. A specialist in the history of technology, innovation, and American political economy, Usselman has published over two dozen refereed articles and book chapters, including many pertaining to IBM and the computer industry. (continues)
Bill Winders
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Bill Winders is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of History, Technology, and Society. He received his PhD in sociology from Emory University in 2001 and specializes in the areas of political sociology, the world economy, social movements, and social inequality (class, race, and gender). (continues)
Academic Professional
Amy D'Unger
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
(PhD, Duke University, 1999) is a sociologist with interests in the areas of juvenile delinquency and crime, feminist criminology, life course sociology, social inequality, and social control. Her previous research has looked at the impact of neighborhood social disorganization, peer networks, family structures, and school ties on delinquency and crime over the life course. (continues)
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