SAM H FRANZ
Doctoral Candidate
History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
I study the relationship between computing technologies and capitalism in the 20th century United States. My dissertation research investigates the rise and institutionalization of computing training and research in US universities. Beginning with statistics laboratories and tabulating services in the early 20th century and ending with computer-aided instruction research and computer science departments, my work tracks the role of computing in the transformations of higher education in the United States, especially after 1945.
Broadly, my research interests include: History of Science & Technology; History of Computing; Political Economy; Intellectual History; Materialist History of Science; Historical Epistemology; History of Higher Education; (Critical) University Studies
samfranz@sas.upenn.edu
Doctoral Candidate
History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
I study the relationship between computing technologies and capitalism in the 20th century United States. My dissertation research investigates the rise and institutionalization of computing training and research in US universities. Beginning with statistics laboratories and tabulating services in the early 20th century and ending with computer-aided instruction research and computer science departments, my work tracks the role of computing in the transformations of higher education in the United States, especially after 1945.
Broadly, my research interests include: History of Science & Technology; History of Computing; Political Economy; Intellectual History; Materialist History of Science; Historical Epistemology; History of Higher Education; (Critical) University Studies
samfranz@sas.upenn.edu