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Merritt Roe Smith
Room |
E51-194B |
| Phone |
617-253-4008 |
| Email |
roesmith@mit.edu |
| website |
Professor Smith received his B.A. from Georgetown University
(History, 1963) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State
University (History, 1971). Before coming to MIT in 1978, he taught
at Ohio State University and the University of Pennsylvania. His
book on the Harpers Ferry Armory received the 1977 Frederick
Jackson Turner Award, the 1978 Pfizer Award, and nomination for the
Pulitzer Prize in History. He has received numerous fellowships and
recognition, including a Regents Fellowship from the Smithsonian
Institution, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Senior Fulbright
Scholarship in Sweden, a Thomas Newcomen Fellowship at the Harvard
Business School, and the Leonardo da Vinci medal from the Society
for the History of Technology. He is a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and currently serves on the boards
of the American Museum of Textile History, the Thomas Edison Papers
Project at Rutgers University, and the public television series,
"The American Experience."
Professor Smith is co-author of Inventing America: A History of the United States (2nd ed., 2006). He co-authored “The Automobile in America: A Retrospective Technology Assessment” for the PoET Working Papers series (2007) and continues as co-principal investigator for the PoET NSF/IGERT grant at MIT. He also edits The Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology series at The Johns Hopkins University Press and serves on the advisory boards of the American Precision Museum, the Museum of American Textile History, and the acclaimed television series, “The American Experience.” He is currently working on a book about technology and technological change during the Civil War era. He and his wife, Bronwyn, are housemasters of Burton-Conner, an undergraduate residence on Memorial Drive.
updated 06/25/07