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Professor Ensmenger

SHOT 2017 Plenarytest

October 19, 2017     #media

One week from today Donna Riley and I will be giving the opening plenary at the 2017 conference of the Society for the History of Technology in Philadelphia. The theme is Technology, Democracy and Participation.


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, and is also the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education for the Luddy School.

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

New: Dirty Bits: An Environmental History of Computing

OFFICE HOURS (Spring 2026):
10am-noon Monday My office is in Luddy Hall, room 3154


Upcoming Talks/Conferences:

Historisches Institut, Universität Paderborn, Verflochtene Zukünfte: Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit
Paderborn, Germany, July 2026
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Barcelona, Spain, April 2026
American Society for Environmental History
Kansas City, MO, March 2026
PRIM&R Social, Behavioral, and Educational Research Conference
``A Sociotechnical Perspective on AI in Medicine,'' December 2025
University of Virginia, School of Data Science
``AI as Infrastructure,'' September 2025
IEEE Ethics Conference
``Public Interest Technology: A Midwest Consortium,'' June 2025
Complete list of invited talks