Academic Employment

College of Arts & Letters

Stevens Institute of Technology

Castle Point on Hudson

Hoboken, New Jersey, 07030

412-310-2450

lee.vinsel@gmail.com
Academic Employment:
2012–Present, Stevens Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor, Program in Science and Technology Studies, College of Arts & Letters.
2011–2012, Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dual Appointment in the Kennedy School of Government’s Program on Science, Technology, and Society and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Education:
Ph.D., History and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011. Dissertation title: Federal Regulatory Management of the Automobile in the United States, 1966-1988. Dissertation Committee: David A. Hounshell (Chair), Joel A. Tarr, John Soluri, Jay Aronson, and Steven W. Usselman (Georgia Tech).
M.S., History and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006.
B.A., Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2003. Senior Thesis: Get Over It!: The Foucault-Habermas Debate and Critical Theory in the United States
Publications:
“The Fruit of Regulation: Standards, Surveillance, and Technological Change in the US Automobile After 1966,” Technology and Culture, Revise and Resubmit
“The Discovery-Invention Cycle: Bridging the Basic/Applied Dichotomy,” Co-authored with Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Tolu Odumosu, Issues in Science and Technology, forthcoming.
“The Crusade for Credible Energy Information and Analysis in the United States, 1973–1982,” History and Technology, 28, no. 2 (June 2012), 147–176.
Grants, Fellowships, and Dissertation Colloquia:
Lemelson Center Fellow, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 2013.
The John E. Rovensky Fellowship in American Business or Economic History, 2009-2010.
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2009-2010.
Business History Conference Dissertation Colloquium, 2009.
Ford Motor Company Research Funding, 2008.
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2008.
The Socio-Political Construction of Technologies under "Technology-Forcing"

Regulations: A Tale of Two Automotive Technologies, "One" Government and "One"

Industry, National Science Foundation Grant. My tuition and graduate stipend were

funded under this grant from January-August, 2008.

Center. My tuition and graduate stipend were funded under this grant from 2005-2008.

Tests, and the Regulation of the Automobile in the United States,” Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Tacoma, WA, October 2, 2010.

Pittsburgh, PA, May 21, 2007.

Analysis, 1973-1982,” MEPHISTOS Conference, University of California at Los

Angeles, April 7, 2007.
“Historical Studies of Path Dependency: The Diesel Engine and the Failure of Early

Opportunities for Decentralization,” CDMC National Science Foundation Site Visit, Pittsburgh,

PA, March, 2007

Teaching Experience:
Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Technology and Society, Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard University, Spring Semester 2012: I am responsible for managing the course module on energy and the environment, for which I will also give a lecture and run a case study on alternative automotive engine systems. I also run a weekly discussion section.
Guest Lecturer, “The History of Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Environmental Politics, Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University, Fall Semester 2011.
Teaching Assistant, Global Village, Professor Mark Thompson, Stephens College, Spring Semester 2011: I led two weekly, hour-long discussion sections and managed administrative details such as grading and attendance.
Teaching Assistant, Government and Economics, Professor Mark Thompson, Stephens College, Fall Semester 2010: I led two weekly, hour-long discussion sections and managed administrative details such as grading and attendance.
Teaching Assistant, The Development of American Culture, Professor Scott A. Sandage, Carnegie Mellon University, Fall Semester 2008: I led two weekly, hour-long discussion sections and managed administrative details such as grading and attendance.
Guest Lecturer, “History of the Women’s Movement and Second-Wave Feminism,” The Development of American Culture, Professor Scott A. Sandage, Carnegie Mellon University, Fall Semester 2008.
Guest Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “History of Research and Development During World War II in Germany, Japan, and the United States,” Perspectives on Industrial Research and Development, Professor David A. Hounshell, Fall Semester 2007.
Guest Lecturer, “Systems in the History of Technology,” Technology and American Society, Professor David A. Hounshell, Fall Semester 2007.
Guest Lecturer, “The Role of Conspiracy Theories in Political History,” Spies and Assassins of 19th Century Europe: An Examination of the Parallel Development of the Large Espionage Systems and the Nation State in 19th Century Europe, Graduate Instructor Ruth Kittner, Spring Semester 2007.
Public Presentations and Outreach:
Radio interview on the history of automotive regulation on History for the Future, WRCT—Pittsburgh, broadcast January 26, 2010.
Presentation, “’The Maximum of Dispassion’: Varieties of Trust in the Formation of the Energy

Information Administration, 1973-1982,” Energy Information Administration (EIA),