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Professor Ensmenger

Black History Month and the History of Computing

February 23, 2022     #research

In celebration of Black History Month, I have been reflecting on what my scholarship might have to say about the history of African American computer programmers. On the website on the history of computer programming that developed out of my first book, I have written about some exciting recent works in the scholarship on Black programmers.


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.

New: Dirty Bits: An Environmental History of Computing

OFFICE HOURS (Spring 2026):
10am-noon Monday, 10am-noon Tuesday My office is in Myles Brand Hall, room 229


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