Professor Ensmenger

Granfalloon! (it's a Vonnegut thing...) #media

I am excited to be a small part of the upcoming Granfalloon Festival hosted by the IU Arts and Humanities Council. What is a Granfalloon, you might ask? According to... more

Roblox! #media

One of the most rewarding creative challenges I have as a scholar is figuring out ways to communicate my research to experts in industry. I was invited to give a... more

Empowering Diverse STEM Innovators #media

I am pleased and honored to be part of the Louis Stokes Midwest Regional Center of Excellence conference on Empowering Diverse STEM Innovators to be held virtually from October 22-24.... more

Ada Lovelace Day Celebration #media

October 8 is Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). As part of the larger international movement organized around Ada Lovelace... more

IEEE Golden Core Award #media #research

I am pleased and honored to be the recipient of the IEEE Golden Core Award. A small number of Golden core awards are granted each year to persons who “served... more

The Secret History of Women in Coding #research #media #gender

In today’s issue of the New York Times, the journalist Clive Thompson has published a brilliant excerpt from his forthcoming book Coders. In it he references my work on the... more

Human Agency and Autonomous Vehicles #media

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) research group on “Practicing Evidence” is hosting an international workshop on autonomous vehicles at the Deutsches Museum entitled Who’s Driving? Agency and Evidence in... more

The Future of Artificial Intelligence #media #research

At the end of November the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University hosted a two-day event gathering historians and practioners from around the world. I was... more

More Tech & Gender #media #research

The spate of popular media culture coverage of my research on women in computing that surrounded the publication of the Google Manifesto continues unabated. On Equal Pay Day (April 10),... more

Tech, Gender, and the Environment #media #research

This past week two very different aspects of my work got picked up by the national press. The first was my early work on women in computing, which was featured... more

Professor Nathan Ensmenger

Nathan Ensmenger is an Associate Professor in the Informatics department of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University.

He specializes in the social and labor history of computing, gender and computing, and the relationship between computing and the environment.

OFFICE HOURS (Spring 2025):
1-3pm Monday, noon-1pm Tuesday My office is in Myles Brand Hall, room 229