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.

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