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.