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Jennifer S. Light

Department of Communication Studies

Jennifer S. Light is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, History, and Sociology and a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Dr. Light's research investigates the work of technical experts in the political process, with special interest in these figures' influences on US urban history. She is the author of From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America (2003) and The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions (2009), both published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Dr. Light serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Communication and the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. With generous assistance from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Robert and Kay Hiatt Fund, Light is currently working on two research projects: a history of pre-electronic urban information systems (maps) that uses GIS as an analytic tool, and a history of civic games in the US.

Education

PhD	History of Science, Harvard University
MPhil	History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University (Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar)
AB	History and Literature, Harvard College

Recent Publications

The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)

From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003; 2005)

Articles appearing in New Media and Society; Technology and Culture; Journal of Urban History; Harvard Educational Review; Ecumene; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Journal of the American Planning Association; New Directions for Evaluation; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; and Gender, Place, and Culture.

Contributions to anthologies including:

A. Akera and W. Aspray (Eds.), Using History to Improve Computer Science Education. Washington, DC: Computing Research Association, 2004.

Erik P. Bucy (Ed.), Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004

N. Lerman, R. Oldenziel and A. Mohun (Eds.), Gender and Technology: A Reader. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Recent Awards and Honors

Honorable Mention, Lewis Mumford Prize, 2009

Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, 2005

Grants

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, 2007

Haynes Foundation/Historical Society of Southern California, 2003

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 2001

Courses

CS 374	ICTs in American Society
CS 386	Science, Technology and Society
CS 395	Technology and the American Cultural Landscape
CS 484	Mind and Society in the Information Age
CS 488	Topics in the History of ICTs
CS 525	Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
CS 525	Mapping Race