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Joseph Corn

Senior Lecturer in American History, Emeritus,

E-mail: joecorn@stanford.edu

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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., New York University; LL.B., New York University; B.A., Bates College

Research Interests

I'm interested in attitudinal and behavioral change related to the adoption and use of 19th and 20th century technologies, including their role in popular culture, as well as the history of the built environment.

Courses Taught

Publications

  • "'Textualizing Technics': Owner's Manuals and the Reading of Objects," in Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison, eds., American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field. (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, 1997), 169-94.
  • "Object Lessons/Object Myths: What Historians of Technology Learn from Things," in David Kingery, ed., Learning from Things. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996), 35-54.

University Service

  • American Studies Program Coordinator
  • Science, Technology and Society Program