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Edmund Todd

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University of New Haven: Faculty Edmund Todd
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Title: Ph.D. - Associate Professor
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College: College of Arts and Sciences
Dept: History
Phone: 203.932.7287
Email: etodd@newhaven.edu
Office: Maxcy Hall 316

Education

M.A. 1981, Ph.D. 1984, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1984
History of Technology, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 1979-1981
M.A., Modern European History, University of Florida, 1974
History and Political Science, Tübingen Universität, 1974-1975
B.A. 1970, History, University of Florida, 1962-1964, 1966-1970

Published Books and Articles

"Technology, Landscape, Culture, and Music in Bochum and Bayou: 1880-1930," in Technik zwischen Artes und Arts; Technology between Artes and Arts: Festschrift für Hans-Joachim Braun. Pp. 103-115. Edited by Reinhold Bauer, James Williams, and Wolfhard Weber. Münster: Waxmann, 2008.
 
“Landscaping the Ruhr as a Vacation Wonderland: Building the Twentieth Century out of the Seventeenth.” ICON 10 (2004), 123-138.

“Engineering Politics, Technological Fundamentalism, and German Power Technology, 1900-1936."  In Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes. Pp. 145-174.  Edited by Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

“Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935." History of Technology 22 (2000), 25-42.

"Von Essen zur regionalen Stromversorgung, 1890-1920.  Das Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk."  In Elektrizitätswirtschaft zwischen Umwelt, Technik und Politik: Aspekte aus 100 Jahren RWE-Geschichte, 1898-1998.  Pp. 17-49.  Edited by Helmut Maier.  Freiberg: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 1999.

"Prussian Landräte and Modern Technology: Electricity as a Source of Power in the Ruhr, 1900-1915."  ICON 2 (1996), 83-107.

"Building a Pumped Storage Station on the Ruhr, 1920-1930."  IEEE Power Engineering Review 16 (April 1996), 39-41.

"Electric Ploughs in Wilhelmine Germany: Failure of an Agricultural System."  Social Studies of Science 22 (1992), 263-281.

"Industry, State, and Electrical Technology in the Ruhr circa 1900."  Osiris 5 (1989), 243-259.

"Industrial Structure, Progressives, and the Development of Chemical Engineering at Columbia, 1900-1915."  In Technology and Technological Sciences in History: Proceedings of the ICOHTEC-Symposium Dresden, 25.-29. August 1986.  Pp. 267-270.  Edited by Rolf Sonnemann and Klaus Krug.  Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1987.

"A Tale of Three Cities: Electrification and the Structure of Choice in the Ruhr, 1886-1900."  Social Studies of Science 17 (1987), 387-412.

Reviews in Alemannia Studens, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Business History, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, Environmental History, German Politics and Society, ISIS, The Journal of Economic History, Nature, Science, and Technology and Culture


Courses Taught

HS 101 Western Civilization to 1700
HS 102 Western Civilization since 1700
HS 108 History of Science
HU 300 Nature of Science
HS 306 Modern Technology and Western Culture
HS 351 Russia and the Soviet Union
Nazi Germany
HS 355 Modern Germany
The Environment since 1939
HS 446 Europe in the Twentieth Century


Other

Edmund Todd's honors and awards include:

  • Wye Faculty Seminar, Summer 200
  • Advisory Editor, Technology and Culture, 1996-2006
  • Advisory Council, SHOT, 1993-1996
  • DAAD Summer Seminar, "The Kaiserreich Recast: Culture, Politics, Modernity,"University of Pennsylvania, 1990
  • ACLS Grants-in-Aid, Summer 1986
  • Fulbright Scholar, Germany, 1979-1981