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EDUCATION "",rine.tt. James Li~Ja(~";Ph.D. History, The Johns Hopkins University, 1986M.A. History, The Johns Hopkins University, 1982B.A. History and Economics, University of Delaware, 1980

EMPLOYMENTFlorida International University, Professor of Histpry, 1998-presentUniversity of Houston, Associate Professor of Hi'story, 1991-1998University of Houston, Assistant Professor of History , 1988-1990Rice University, Visiting Professor of History , 1987 -88Middlebury College, Visiting Instructor in History, 1985-86

GRANTS AND FELLOWSIDPS2007-10: U.S. Department of Education, Teaching American History Program Grant

2007: FlU College of Arts & Science Summer Research Award

2002: Department of Itt~~nor, N~tio~ParksS~rvice Research Grant;'. I i(!p! "i'; l :nlverslty;v It)"R-,-

2000: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Grant

2000: Florida International University Foundation Summer Research Grant

National Science FoundatiQt},;S~i~J;lq~l~q,Jechnology Studies Grant

American Council ofLebed'Societies Travel Grant, j ..; ! \: .' )C i, ,

National Endowm~pt for theH~..anitie~: ~umanities, Science and

Technology Research Gran1!()r,inHistl.}h!.'..19~)-~o

Newcomen Fellowship, Harvard Business School

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1991

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1987:

Littleton-Griswold Research Grant, American Historical Association

University of Houstoi1 Rese'aicblriifiat.ionGrarit

Economic History Association Arthur H. Cole Grant-in-Aid

AwARDS AND HONORS2007: Florida International University Sabbatical Leave

2006: Research Excellence Award, Florida International University." :... ..:

2004: Abbott Payson Usher Prize, Society for the History of Technology

2002: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.Lecture, University of North Carolina

2000: Harold F. Williams,on Prize, Business History Conference

1995: Newcomen Award for Excellence in Business History Research and Writing

1995

1992:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Article Award.

T. R. Fehrenbach BookAwardh Initiation (1y'1!1t

Allen Nevins Prize for OutStanding Dissertation in American Economic

History

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

PUBUCA TIONS

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~~~~;riSe & Society: Th~'lnt~rnaiigiJfll}~u;nal!of1Jusines History (ending 2007), ., .' .i) , ' " ' 11'l)l.lll.l::~)" Jl"I.',.,I:)U~llll:"s l~lOI, ,'I',

BOOKSA History of Kennedy Space Center. University Press of Florida, 2007

Constructing Corporate :4mericl1: " m$thry, Politics, Culture. Oxford University

Press, 2004. (Co-editor and contributor)iitlL' i

Investing lor Mi.ddle A~~l~ff: ..{~?~ .*l~iott T appa.n and the Origins of AmericanExpress Fmanclal Advlsors. New >yior'It: St. MartIns Press, 2001.

Baker and Botts in the Development of Modern Houston. Austin: University

of Texas Press, 1991 (co-author Joseph Pratt).

Winner of the 1992 T. R.. Fehrenbach Book Award in Texas History for

"outstanding original research,studV.an~ publicadonjn ~he field of TexasJ!"CJlilIJ!(I;J{II,7(Jlilll,.f;'!i

history."

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The Bell System and Regional Business: The Telephone in the South, 1877-1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University ~ress, 1989.

ARTICLES"Telecommunications and the Third Industrial Revolution," forthcoming

"Rethinking the Invention Factory: Ben Labs'in Perspective," in Naomi LamoreauxSally Clarke and Steven Usselman, eds., The Challenge of Remaining Innovative:Lessons from Twentieth Century American Business.. Stanford University Press,2008.

"Business Culture," in Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds., The OxfordHandbook of Business History. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Review Essay:

(Spring, 2006).

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Mary Douglas, How Institutions Think Business History Review. 80

"The Hotel Machine: Management and Technology 'in the Skyscraper Hotel," inMarianne Lamonaca and John Mogul, eds., Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: TheArchitecture ofSchultze & ,f!:~~~.fi,,; ~~p~W,~ A:rcQitectural Press, 2005.

History, Politics,"The Utopian Corporation,'~~ Constr~t;t;~,,!;;Prp()rateAmerica,Culture. Oxford University Press, 2004. ,

"The Social Construction of Failure: Picturephone and the Infonnation AgeTechnology and Culture, January, 2003.

Winner of the 2004 Abbott Payson Usher Prize for best article published in

preceding three years by the Society for; the History of Technology.

"The Historian in the Rose Garden?"!reView.'essay~..Technology and Culture, 41 :3(July 2000), 537-548.

"Failure to Communicate: British Telecommunications and the American Model," inAmericanization and Its Limits~IRespon'ses io USrechnology and Management inPostwar Europe and Japan, edited byl]onathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel, OxfordUniversity Press, 2000.

Social Science Quarterly"Professions and Organizations in 20th Century America.79:2 (June, 1998),301-320.

"Cutthroat Competition, Corporate-Sttategy and the Growth of Network Industries,Research on Technological InnovatiQPr ~qnagement, and Policy, Volume 6, 1997.

"Culture and the Practice afBusiriess Histary,'i Business and Economic History, val24, no.2, 1995. ,',;,.,(I",:,!1.j.'r"\/i,,\Mp'l.:::!\ 1(1[';,i1IJIJ..

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Winner of the 1995 Newcomen Society Award for Excellence in Business History

Research and Writing.

"When Women Were Switches: Technology~WorkandGender in the TelephoneIndustry, 1890-1920," American Historical Review. October, 1994, 1075-1111.

Winner of the 1995 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Life Members

Award, for best article in the history of electrical technology. Given by the Society

for the History of Technology.

"Component Innovation: The Case of Automatic Telephone Switching, 1891-1920,"Industrial and Corporate Change, 3:2(1994),325-357. .

"Innovation, the Firm and Socie~~"Busi.ness and Economic History. 2nd series, vol22 (1993). :

"The Strategy of System Building: Telephony in the American South," in

Technological Competitiveness: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on theElectrical, Electronics and Computer Industries, William Aspray, ed. Piscataway, NJIEEE Press, 1993. :' -: -\\'ltL'iit'S: .(echnolob~Wt)fk and (j~!~(!,..

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"What Have Lawyers Dqp~ [~f,~~~GOO~~m~~S?f-rThe Case of Baker and Botts ofHouston, TX," Busines~lf!~f?1J!~~Y~triB4L~"'~' 19~O), 489-526.

"System-Building On the Margin: The Problem of Public Choice in the TelephoneIndustry," Journal of Economic H~story. 48 (June?J~~9), 323-36.

(, -' ( I 'J ".J. } J ' J J ', .' ""(0(.. .-,1,"_'- ~/."The Telephone In The South: A Comparative Arialysis, 1877-1920," Journal of

Economic History. 48 (June, 1988),4J~-+~.

"Getting Down to Cases: Baker & Botts and the Texas RailroadCQmmission,Essays in Economic and Business History. vol. VI, 1988.

" A Comparative Analysis of the Southern and Northern Telephone Systems, "

Business and Economic History. 2nd series, vol. 14 (1985).

"The New York Cotton E~ch~g.e; :~4c~~ iQevelopment of the Cotton FuturesMarket," BusinessHistory~eview. 57 (.Sp~.g~ 1983),50-72.

ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS ',\"Professions and Professionalization," Encyclopedia of the United States inthe Twentieth Century. N~~. y 9{~'..~ ~ffi~ter, ~~95.

"Telephone," International Encyclopedia ofCommunications. New York.Oxford University Press, l~~.? :..:. ;)0.)l[S anu it;, ~ ;~,

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PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS"It's Not Rocket Science: Operations Engineering and Human Space Flight."

University of Minnesota History of Science and Tecbriology Colloquium, September28, 2007. "

"The Dynamics of Finn and Industry Eyo.1\:1tion: Historians' Perspectives," Academyof Management Meeting, Philadelphia Au~st.3-8 2007.

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"Global Telecommunications and Political Economy since 1950," paper presented atconference, "Has There Been a Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business?"

Milan, Italy, November 16-18,2006. (by inviwtion)-0 r..~~-::~~~~"""';":t

"The Public Use ofPrivate Capital: The Political Economy of Telecommunications,"Fuji Conference, To~o, january 6-8, 2006. (by invitation)

"The Political Economy of Telecommunications: National Experiences and

International Patterns," Norwegian Scl}q~l,~f,M~gem~n~.. Oslo, November 10-11,

2005.(byinvitation) , i ..'..,..:jIL..:: ,',i", !-'-l;i1Il\i ~

"Business History from the Perspective of a Cutting Edge Journal," Incontri di Storia

Dell'Impresa, Universita Lo B~~c,oni, ~,i~~~ May 6, 2005.(by invitation)

"Bell Laboratories in Perspective," Conference in honor of Louis Galambos, Johns

Hopkins University, October, 2003.(by invitation)

"What's Southern About Southe~~uSWe~$?" Alfred D. Chandler Lecture inSouthern Business History, University of.North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 24, 2002

(by invitation) .~ \: The Po!j:. ,1

" "..'- , v -, , , ..Roundtable, Business History Conference, Apri119, 2002, Wilmington, DE.

'-. ,)1 !'l'!.":)111m\lni.cati<'in',. Natll)t1:11 ! ,"The Utopian Corporation," Conference OI\ Business in the Temple of History , UCLA

Department of History, May 18,2001. (by invitation)

"Telecommunications in .Amed~~.~4L&W9p~;'~1 ~~nference on EvolutionaryEconomics, Johns Hopkins Uliiversity,1~ch,30-31, 2001.(by invitation)

"What's So New Aboutthe,-~ew EcOnRltlYL~~'i.:;.:~9r~~~Op on the New Economy,

Emory University, Apri113~14,2PO,1. (1?y,iH)i~H9n)

"Constructing the American Corp9ration,"Kenn~4y §chool of Government, March 1,

2001. (by invitation) .; I.::rsity of Nol11i L ~l!..t>ljil.!,(hacp,-"- """" c

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"Cultural Approaches to Business History," Roundtable at Organization of AmericanHistorians Annual Meeting, St. Lows, March 31, 2000.

"The Utopian Corporation," paper presented at conference, The Corporation as aSocial and Political Institution, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,February 2000.

"The Bell System Meets its Vietnam: Or the Strange Case of Picturephone," paperpresented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January

9,2000.

"Florida's Favorite Fruit: A Taste of the Cult of the Orange," public presentation oncitriculture in Florida, April, 10, 11, May 16, 1999.

"La estrategia empresarial de AT &T en la conformaci6n del sistema de telefonia enlos Estatos Unidos," CIDE, Mexico C~0/,Mexico, October 7,1998. (by invitation)

"The Business of America is CultUre: The Culture of America is Business,"Conference on the Future of Busm~~$ H;.~~Q'fY 'i Hagley Museum and Library , April 4

&5,1997. ,.., , ,,\

"Opportunities Lost and Found: The Lessons of the American TelecommunicationsIndustry in Britain," Americani~~tRn ~q~ts ,~wts: Responses to U.S. Technologyand Management in Postwar Europe and J~pan, conference at the University ofWisconsin, March 14-16, 1997.(by invitation)

"The Large Corporation as~ AgentiQf~~g,e; The American Experience,"Multinational Business in the 21st CentVfYConference, conference at the University

, '.I \ : ( ). .;of Tulsa, April, 1997.(by invitation) .

"Managi.ng ~ompetition and BritainEconomic History Association MeetIng", Berkeley, CA, 1996.

"Conservatism and Inn~vatlPrn in',~~us@ai pe~i~t;.Soci~~ !or the History ofTechnology Annual Meetmg; Lonaoh~l~ffgtIltid~ Ir~96. "lliSt:I.

"Post Structural Approaches to th~'~~~Yc~~,B~siness~March 17 1995. ' '1'- , 1.-""")" , , .,

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" Business History Conference,

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"Strategy and Innovation at Belluabotaiones, 1907-1994," CinquantiemeAnniversaire du CNET, parls,!Februaryl1S~)1995. (by invitation)

" America's Su~c~ss Inte~ational

Economic History Congress, Milan, September 12.:.17, 1994.

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"When Women Were Switches: Tech:i1ology,WorkandGender in theTelephone Industry, 1890-1920," Society for the History of Technology AnnualMeeting, October 14-17,1993. .'"...

"The Political Economy of lrinovation: Government and Technology in theTelephone Industry," Politics and Production: Industrial Policy in the TwentiethCentury , conference at Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, March26, 1993. (by invitation) ,.-"c,---,,~.;:; c..

"Innovation, the Firm and Society," Business History Conference, March 18-21,1993. .

i. :;.'..I.,." ! ,..,.~~~:~,t"Professions and Organizations in the Twentieth Century," Social ScienceHistory Conference, November 5-8, 1992.

"Marketing the Telephone; ; .~- ~ll SI ~00~t.0\~e;.~q~~er Society , "

Economic History Association Ann~.M~~ting, September 18-20, 1992

" Yale Department of"Innovation in the Telecommunications Industry,

Economics, February 26, ..19~2. (1?Yi mvi~w}11 111

"Entrepreneurship in a New Technology: Bringing the Telephone to theSouth," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 1991.

"Corporate Strategy and Technolo.gy Ghoi~e: The Early History of AutomaticSwitching in American Telephony," Society for the History of TechnologyAnnual Meeting, 1991.

"The Strategy of System Building: Telephony in the American South," IEEEConference on Technological Competitiveness, Rutgers University, October 10-131991. (by invitation) _i: , 1.:.~.,>Ol»ISC.; lolilL l:Ulj :;:..:r --.

"Systems in Conflict: Bell Confronts the American South," InternationalCommunications AssociatiQ~ ~~, M~~.~g,J 99..1.

, .'('. j 99::, \ h)' j.n\itatiol1)"What Have Lawyers Done for American Business?" Business History

Conference,1990. \ I"

II 'Work Hard and Stay out of Politics': Lawyers as Urban Policy Makers in

Houston, 1897 -1918, II Organizatio,!1.,Q.f ~~c~ Historians Annual

Meeting,1989. 'C: "',i.' S\}(J-:[, 'i ",

"System-Building at the Margin: The Problem of Public Choice in theTelephone Industry," Economic History Association Annual Meeting,

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"Cities, States and the Bell System: Telephon~ Regulation, 1894-1907,Economic and Business Historical SocietYAi1niliilMeeting, 1988.

"Getting Down to Cases: Baker~Bo~and the Early History of the TexasRailroad Commission," Economic and Business Historical Society AnnualMeeting, 1987. ' ..)~:..'::'i-,"c;; 'c'

PUBLIC HISTORYMember, Corporate Social Responsibili~.HistoryProject, Center forEthical Business Cultures, University of St. ThomaS-Minnesota

Member, Digital Archive of the Dot Corn Era Project Team, University of Maryland,Robert H. Smith School of Business, 2004:Present ; ,. .".~,;

Guest Curator, In Pursuit of PleasureWolfsonian Museum, 2005-06 , , ~ .

Schultze & Weaver and American Hotel

:"'."~.f~a!~f'Clet\l.AI:jlwaI.Mt'~I!:I~' :'.;Co-Principal Investigator, "A Public Engagement Handbook for theComprehensive Everglades Restoration Program," National Parks ServiceEverglades National Park, and Critical Ecosystems Studies Initiative, 2003

Co-Principal Investigator, "Entre Espace Public et Espace Prive:Automobiles, Automobilistes et Systemes de Communications (BetweenPublic an~ P~vate Spac~: Aut~~~bt~~~7l{~~~ .~~i~t~~ems of

Commumcatlon)," An mternati~~ ' CoU,o6ratiy,eproject sponsored byRenaultAutomobiles,1996-7 l!.,!l' ()~,l. 11,\,1,1

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UNIVERSITYChair, Department of History Fundraising Committee, 2006-08Ch~ ' Department of H~story Pe~~~~~~ ' s~~ne~" 2~06-0.8

Chair, Department ofHlStOry, FlonaaihternatioHal Umverslty, 2001-2004.Co-Chair, Human Dimensio l l~l r pf !.~i<;>'~1:h"F(' ~)~~~Enyironment Working Group,1999-Present. .\ , I , 11 , , ., , ,

Wolfsonian-FIU Academic Advisory Bo~d~xecutive Committee, 2000-PresentAssociate Director, Program in Public History, University of Houston, 1988-1998Graduate Director, University of Houston, .1'990-91. ., ,

Undergraduate Director, UniversitylofH~ust.on, 1,989'-9~. " ,

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PROFESSIONALLeonardo da Vinci Medal Award Committee, Socief:Yfor the History of Technology,2008

Usher Prize Committee, Society for the History of Technology, 2006-08

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Editorial Board, Enterprise and Society, 1999-2002.Newcomen Book Prize in Business History Committee, 2001Business History Conference PtogramCo'mriiittee,200 LBusiness History Conference, Trustee, 1996-99.President, Economic and Business Historical Society, 1996.

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