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John Krige
Kranzberg Professor; Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Pretoria, 1965;
Ph.D., Philosophy, Sussex, 1979
Dr. Krige is an historian who has published widely on science, technology and the postwar reconstruction of Europe. He has lived and worked in Britain, France and Italy, and has written the history of major intergovernmental organizations like CERN (the European Laboratory for Nuclear Research) and ESA (the European Space Agency).
Since moving to the U.S. in 2000, Krige has developed a research program dealing with U.S.-European relations in science and technology in the cold war. He is particularly interested in science and technology as instruments of ‘soft power’.
His two most recent books are Global Power Knowledge. Science and Technology in International Affairs (co-edited with Kai-Henrik Barth, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University, Washington D.C,) (University of Chicago Press, 2006), and American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2006).
Krige is the editor of the international journal History and Technology, and has served on the editorial boards of several other journals, including British J. for the History of Science, Isis and Minerva.
In 2005 he was awarded the Henry W. Dickinson Medal by the British Newcomen Society. He was the Charles A. Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C in 2004-05, and was a fellow at the Shelby Culhom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University in Fall 2006.
Contact: D.M. Smith 302; (404) 894-7765; e-mail: john.krige@hts.gatech.edu
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