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William M. McBride, Professor History of Science and Technology
Email:
wmcbride@usna.edu Education: Selected Publications: "Nineteenth-Century American Warships: The Pursuit of Exceptionalist Design," in Reinventing the Ship: Science, Technology and the Maritime World, ed. Don Leggett and Richard Dunn (Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2012). “From Measuring Progress to Technological Innovation: The Prewar Annapolis Engineering Experiment Station,” in Instrumental in War: Scientific Research and Instrumentation between Knowledge and the World, ed. Steven A. Walton (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005) "Innovation and the Warrior Ethos" in the inaugural issue of Topic magazine published by the Gates-Cambridge Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
Edited New Interpretations in Naval History (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998).
Research Focuses: Focuses on the relationships among technology, strategic philosophy, and professional culture within post-1800 militaries, especially navies.
Current Project:
"A Historical
Perspective on Educating Midshipmen for the 21st
Century: The Varying Culture of Engineering and
Science at USNA, 1865-1986"
"Superheat: The Social Construction of the Propulsion Machinery that Won World War Two"
Selected Professional Recognition Edna T. Shaeffer Distinguished Humanist, James Madison University IEEE Life Members' Prize, Society for the History of Technology Inaugural Biennial Prize (now the Fishel-Calhoun Prize), Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Moncado Prize for
Excellence, Society for Military History |
