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- Holton Hall 349
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Thomas Haigh
- Professor, History
- Chair, History
- Affiliated Faculty, Computer Science
Education
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania (History and Sociology of Science)
- MA, University of Pennsylvania (History and Sociology of Science)
- MEng, University of Manchester (Computer Science)
- BSc, University of Manchester (Computer Science)
Teaching Schedule
Course Num | Title | Meets |
---|---|---|
HIST 229-401 | History of Race, Science, and Medicine in the United States | R 12:30pm-1:20pm |
HIST 229-601 | History of Race, Science, and Medicine in the United States | W 9:30am-10:20am |
HIST 229-602 | History of Race, Science, and Medicine in the United States | W 11:30am-12:20pm |
HIST 229-603 | History of Race, Science, and Medicine in the United States | W 1:30pm-2:20pm |
HIST 229-604 | History of Race, Science, and Medicine in the United States | R 8:30am-9:20am |
HIST 229-605 | History of Race, Science, and Medicine in the United States | R 10:30am-11:20am |
Research Interests
- History of Computing and Information Technology
- Business History
- History of Work
- History of Technology
- Media History
Books
Selected Publications
Haigh, Thomas & Paul Ceruzzi. A New History of Modern Computing. MIT Press, 2021.
Haigh, Thomas & Mark Priestley, “Colossus in Context.” Technology & Culture 61.3 (July, 2020):871:900.
Haigh Thomas (Ed.) Exploring the Early Digital. Springer, 2019.
Paju, Petri, and Haigh, Thomas D. “IBM Rebuilds Europe: The Curious Case of the Transnational Typewriter” Enterprise & Society 12.2 (2016): 265-300.
Haigh, Thomas D., Priestley, Mark , and Rope, Crispin. ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer 2016.
Mahoney, M.. Histories of Computing Ed. Haigh, Thomas D. Harvard University Press. 2011.
Haigh, Thomas D. “How Data Got its Base: Generalized Information Storage Software in the 1950s and 60s” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 31.4 (2009).
Haigh, Thomas D. “Inventing Information Systems: The Systems Men and the Computer” Business History Review 75.1 (2001): 15-61.