Amy Sue Bix

Amy Sue Bix is a professor of history at Iowa State University and director of the university’s Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science. She earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Johns Hopkins University and teaches and writes on the histories of science, technology, medicine, education, and gender.

Her books include Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press), which examines women’s entry into engineering education in the United States, and Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America’s Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929–1981. Girls Coming to Tech! received the History of Science Society’s Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize in 2015.