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Program in Science,
Technology, and Society
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Deborah Fitzgerald
Professor Fitzgerald received her B.A. from Iowa State University
(History and English, 1978) and her Ph.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania (History and Sociology of Science, 1985). Prior to
joining the MIT faculty in 1988, she was an Assistant Professor in
the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She
received the Provost's Fund Grant from MIT (1989), the Old Dominion
Fellowship (1990-1991), Mellon Foundation grant, and National
Science Foundation Fellowships for 1991 and 1996.
Her research focuses on the industrialization of agriculture,
particularly in 20th century America. She is co-organizer (with
Harriet Ritvo) of the "Modern Times, Rural Places" seminar series.
She is the author of The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in
Illinois, 1890-1920 (Cornell, 1990), and Yeoman No More: The
Industrialization of Agriculture in America (Yale, forthcoming).
She is currently working on the industrial history of food.
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