Edward Jones-Imhotep

Edward Jones-Imhotep is a historian of science and technology, academic and director and associate professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in history of science from Harvard University in 2001.

He received the 1995 Mellon Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in Humanistic Studies. Jones-Imhotep's research focuses on the historical and philosophical aspects of modern physical sciences and technology.

His book The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War (MIT Press, 2017) won the Society for the History of Technology's 2018 Sidney M. Edelstein Prize for an outstanding book, citing the book's "place of technology in modern history which puts the book into dialogue with the vast literatures on envirotech, on technology and state-building, on Cold War science and technology, and on modernity."

See also

American philosophy

List of American philosophers

References

External links

Personal website

1972 births

Living people

Canadian people of American descent

21st-century Canadian historians

Canadian male non-fiction writers

21st-century American historians

21st-century American male writers

Historians of science

Canadian philosophers

21st-century American philosophers

21st-century African-American academics

21st-century American academics

Philosophers of science

York University alumni

Harvard University alumni

Academic staff of McMaster University

Academic staff of the University of Guelph

Academic staff of York University

American male non-fiction writers

21st-century African-American writers

African-American male writers

African-American philosophers