Ruth Oldenziel

Innovation & Society Group
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

  • Supervisor ESR8

 

Ruth Oldenziel (1958), Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, is Editor in Chief of Technology and Culture (2020-2025), received her PhD in American History at Yale University after graduate training at Smith College, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Amsterdam.

She heads the Sustainable Urban Mobility: Past, Present, and Future program

Her publications include books, anthologies, and articles in the area of American, gender, mobility, and technology studies: “The Sociotechnical Roots of Smart Mobility” (2020); A U-Turn to the Future (2020); Engineering the Future; Understanding the Past (2017); Cycling Cities series (2016-present); Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels (2013); Cycling and Recycling (2015); Hacking Europe (2014); “Islands: The Networked Empire of the U.S.” (2011); Cold-War Kitchen (2009); “Theorizing the Mediation Junction” (2009) Gender and Technology (2003); Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges (2000); Making Technology Masculine (1999); “Boys and their Toys in America” (1997).

Personal webpage: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/ruth-oldenziel/