Amy Slaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1124071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Slaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Slaton |
| SIGNATURE | SLATON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3811-3505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
About the cover
This image illustrates the proper installation of an electrical switch and is one of dozens of photographs and schematic drawings in Electrical Wiring (Domestic) that are meant to guide the ‘enterp
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
About the Cover
A giant clown hand, a huge gorilla, and balloons at a fabrication facility for Mardi Gras floats located in New Orleans. Photo by Bill Parod, 2024; reproduced with permission of the photographer.Th
Rage-ography
Feminist studies scholars and those in related critical studies traditions have long encountered resistance arising from STEM disciplines and capitalist logics on our campuses and in the wider public discourse. The struggles to establish and preserve feminist studies and ethnic studies programs over the past five decades remind us that the present pandemonium has historical roots that can be traced, not only to identify patterns instructive for u…
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Technology in the Industrial Revolution
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The Power and Politics of Engineering Education Research Design
For decades, American researchers have brought intellectual, financial and labor resources to understanding minority underrepresentation in engineering, including through studies of persistent racial and gender discrimination in higher engineering education. This paper considers prevailing standards for legitimate and significant research in this area and the persistent stigma associated with the study of small populations. The preference among m…
Concrete and Culture
Reviewed by: Concrete and Culture: A Material History. by Adrian Forty Amy E. Slaton (bio) Concrete and Culture: A Material History. by Adrian Forty. London: Reaktion Books, 2012; distributed by University of Chicago Press. Pp. 335. $40. In recent years, concrete has increasingly drawn attention from architecture, business, technology, and labor historians. Happily for those of us fascinated by the stuff, Adrian Forty’s cultural history of concre…
Engineering Improvement
The list of engineering "Grand Challenges" lately developed by the National Academy of Engineering enters a long historical tradition of such epically scaled to-do lists, dating back to the profession's U.S. origins in the mid-19th century. The mission statements, codes of ethics, and, later, lists of so-called grand challenges that have issued from engineering societies have served the dual function of directing engineers' work and supporting pa…
The Uses of Context
The Uses of ContextSteen Hyldgaard Christensen, Bernard Delahousse, and Martin Meganck, eds., Engineering in Context Amy E. Slaton (bio) This lengthy collection (Engineering in Context. Aarhus, Denmark: Academica, 2009. Pp. 502. DKr 425), comprising twenty-seven essays by forty authors, brings a welcome focus on engineering in society, just as the work of engineers is gaining new significance as a source of worldwide social and political change. …
Ambiguous reform
Throughout the 1960s, educators and planners envisioned new occupational opportunities for Chicagoans in the city's emerging high-tech industries. In many of their forecasts, the least complex, rewarding, and remunerative jobs associated with Chicago's projected industrial renewal were destined primarily for women and non-white populations, especially black and Hispanic Chicagoans living in the racially fraught inner-city. New engineering jobs, b…
Engineering Segregation
Journal Article Engineering Segregation: The University of Maryland in the Twilight of Jim Crow Get access Amy E. Slaton Amy E. Slaton Amy E. Slaton is an associate professor of history at Drexel University. Her research and writing have focused on the social relations of technical practice in contexts that include factories, construction industries, and materials testing laboratories, as well as post-secondary education. She is the author of Rac…
The Measure of Merit
Reviewed by: The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940 Amy Slaton (bio) The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940. By John Carson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. 418. $39.50. John Carson’s meticulous and engaging book describes the “edifice of merit” in which all readers of Technology and Cult…
Suitable for Framing
Simon Cole finished writing Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001; 369 pp., $35) before the terrorist attacks of 11 September and the spate of highly publicized child abductions in America, both of which have made fingerprinting and other identification technologies extremely topical in the last year. But he most certainly understood the courtroom use of finge…
George Washington carver slept here
Racialist social agendas have helped determine who will and will not be admitted to the engineering programs of American universities, and bench‐level activities within university laboratories have both followed from, and encouraged these structures of occupational opportunity. The engineering division of Iowa State College between 1900 and 1960 was one site of such exclusionary activity. African‐American students were under‐represented in its pr…
As Near as Practicable
In 1906, Anson Marston, dean of engineering at Iowa State College, asserting that a new six-year degree program in his division ranked on a par with the college's curricula in law and medicine, claimed for his intellectual progeny membership in "a great learned profession." In the same year Charles Dudley, the prominent industrial chemist, exhorted engineering instructors to avoid overemphasizing "accumulated information" in their teaching to the…
Enough for One Lifetime
The Power and Politics of Engineering Education Research Design
For decades, American researchers have brought intellectual, financial and labor resources to understanding minority underrepresentation in engineering, including through studies of persistent racial and gender discrimination in higher engineering education. This paper considers prevailing standards for legitimate and significant research in this area and the persistent stigma associated with the study of small populations. The preference among m…
Ambiguous reform
Throughout the 1960s, educators and planners envisioned new occupational opportunities for Chicagoans in the city's emerging high-tech industries. In many of their forecasts, the least complex, rewarding, and remunerative jobs associated with Chicago's projected industrial renewal were destined primarily for women and non-white populations, especially black and Hispanic Chicagoans living in the racially fraught inner-city. New engineering jobs, b…
As Near as Practicable
In 1906, Anson Marston, dean of engineering at Iowa State College, asserting that a new six-year degree program in his division ranked on a par with the college's curricula in law and medicine, claimed for his intellectual progeny membership in "a great learned profession." In the same year Charles Dudley, the prominent industrial chemist, exhorted engineering instructors to avoid overemphasizing "accumulated information" in their teaching to the…
Enough for One Lifetime
George Washington carver slept here
Racialist social agendas have helped determine who will and will not be admitted to the engineering programs of American universities, and bench‐level activities within university laboratories have both followed from, and encouraged these structures of occupational opportunity. The engineering division of Iowa State College between 1900 and 1960 was one site of such exclusionary activity. African‐American students were under‐represented in its pr…
As Near as Practicable
In 1906, Anson Marston, dean of engineering at Iowa State College, asserting that a new six-year degree program in his division ranked on a par with the college's curricula in law and medicine, claimed for his intellectual progeny membership in "a great learned profession." In the same year Charles Dudley, the prominent industrial chemist, exhorted engineering instructors to avoid overemphasizing "accumulated information" in their teaching to the…
Suitable for Framing
Simon Cole finished writing Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001; 369 pp., $35) before the terrorist attacks of 11 September and the spate of highly publicized child abductions in America, both of which have made fingerprinting and other identification technologies extremely topical in the last year. But he most certainly understood the courtroom use of finge…
The Measure of Merit
Reviewed by: The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940 Amy Slaton (bio) The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940. By John Carson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. 418. $39.50. John Carson’s meticulous and engaging book describes the “edifice of merit” in which all readers of Technology and Cult…
Ambiguous reform
Throughout the 1960s, educators and planners envisioned new occupational opportunities for Chicagoans in the city's emerging high-tech industries. In many of their forecasts, the least complex, rewarding, and remunerative jobs associated with Chicago's projected industrial renewal were destined primarily for women and non-white populations, especially black and Hispanic Chicagoans living in the racially fraught inner-city. New engineering jobs, b…
Engineering Segregation
Journal Article Engineering Segregation: The University of Maryland in the Twilight of Jim Crow Get access Amy E. Slaton Amy E. Slaton Amy E. Slaton is an associate professor of history at Drexel University. Her research and writing have focused on the social relations of technical practice in contexts that include factories, construction industries, and materials testing laboratories, as well as post-secondary education. She is the author of Rac…
The Uses of Context
The Uses of ContextSteen Hyldgaard Christensen, Bernard Delahousse, and Martin Meganck, eds., Engineering in Context Amy E. Slaton (bio) This lengthy collection (Engineering in Context. Aarhus, Denmark: Academica, 2009. Pp. 502. DKr 425), comprising twenty-seven essays by forty authors, brings a welcome focus on engineering in society, just as the work of engineers is gaining new significance as a source of worldwide social and political change. …
Engineering Improvement
The list of engineering "Grand Challenges" lately developed by the National Academy of Engineering enters a long historical tradition of such epically scaled to-do lists, dating back to the profession's U.S. origins in the mid-19th century. The mission statements, codes of ethics, and, later, lists of so-called grand challenges that have issued from engineering societies have served the dual function of directing engineers' work and supporting pa…
Concrete and Culture
Reviewed by: Concrete and Culture: A Material History. by Adrian Forty Amy E. Slaton (bio) Concrete and Culture: A Material History. by Adrian Forty. London: Reaktion Books, 2012; distributed by University of Chicago Press. Pp. 335. $40. In recent years, concrete has increasingly drawn attention from architecture, business, technology, and labor historians. Happily for those of us fascinated by the stuff, Adrian Forty’s cultural history of concre…
The Power and Politics of Engineering Education Research Design
For decades, American researchers have brought intellectual, financial and labor resources to understanding minority underrepresentation in engineering, including through studies of persistent racial and gender discrimination in higher engineering education. This paper considers prevailing standards for legitimate and significant research in this area and the persistent stigma associated with the study of small populations. The preference among m…
About the Cover
About the Cover
Technology in the Industrial Revolution
About the Cover
A giant clown hand, a huge gorilla, and balloons at a fabrication facility for Mardi Gras floats located in New Orleans. Photo by Bill Parod, 2024; reproduced with permission of the photographer.Th
Rage-ography
Feminist studies scholars and those in related critical studies traditions have long encountered resistance arising from STEM disciplines and capitalist logics on our campuses and in the wider public discourse. The struggles to establish and preserve feminist studies and ethnic studies programs over the past five decades remind us that the present pandemonium has historical roots that can be traced, not only to identify patterns instructive for u…
About the cover
This image illustrates the proper installation of an electrical switch and is one of dozens of photographs and schematic drawings in Electrical Wiring (Domestic) that are meant to guide the ‘enterp
Houston and the Permanence of Segregation
Engineering (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies (4 works) · Diverse Specialized Academic Research (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)