Lever Press will publish Miller's book Engineering Manhood: Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute in May 2020.
Jonson Miller
Associate Teaching ProfessorDrexel University
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Research Fellow
Engineers as Servant-Leaders of the Old South: The Southern Military Schools and the Foundation of the New South
Abstract: I am studying the efforts of engineering education reformers to transform the social order of the antebellum South. That these reformers participated in building a southern middle class is recognized. Moreover, this new class laid the foundation for post-Civil War economic changes. I will identify the reformers’ specific impacts on the post-war South and engineering. I am focusing primarily on southern military schools as centers of reform by pursuing the following questions: 1) what sort of men were the reformers trying to cultivate?, 2) how did their institutions or students serve the state?, 3) what purpose did engineering serve?, 4) how did the institution fit into the country as a whole?, and 5) what sort of social or political order were these men trying to create? I must also examine northern military and engineering schools to identifying links and distinctions between northern and southern institutions. Read more about Jonson's research as a fellow of the Consortium here.
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Jonson Miller
Jonson Miller
Jonson will be publishing his book, The White Manhood of Engineering: Creating Engineers at the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute with Lever Press.
Jonson Miller
Miller is currently Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University. This year he served as technical consultant on a series of four children's books on the history of technology, published by Capstone Press. The books are The First Computers, The First Airplanes, The First Cars, and The First Space Missions. Miller also made a presentation on "The Transformation of Engineering Knowledge through International Knowledge Transfer" at the 2014 Society for the History of Technology meeting, as part of a session on migrant and diaspora engineers.
Jonson Miller
Miller is currently Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University. This year he served as technical consultant on a series of four children's books on the history of technology, published by Capstone Press. The books are The First Computers, The First Airplanes, The First Cars, and The First Space Missions. Miller also made a presentation on "The Transformation of Engineering Knowledge through International Knowledge Transfer" at the 2014 Society for the History of Technology meeting, as part of a session on migrant and diaspora engineers