Jeremy R. Kinney |
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National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution P.O. Box 37012 NASM, RM 3304, MRC 312 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 |
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(202) 633-2640 | |
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kinneyj@si.edu |
Jeremy R. Kinney (Auburn History PhD, 2003) is a Curator in the Aeronautics Division of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and a Lecturer in the Honors Program at the University of Maryland at College Park. His research and teaching focuses on American technology and aeronautics in the first half of the twentieth century. Kinney completed his dissertation on "'Shifting Gears in the Air': America and the Variable-Pitch Propeller, 1918-1938" under the direction of Professor Stephen L. McFarland. Called the "gearshift of the air," the variable-pitch propeller worked in synergy with innovations in streamline design, all-metal construction, sophisticated engines, and advanced fuels to facilitate the onset of the new and "modern" airplane in the early 1930s. Kinney's Airplanes: The Life Story of a Technology appeared in 2006 as part of the highly-regarded Greenwood Technographies Series. Johns Hopkins University Press selected the book for a paperback edition in 2008. Working with Jim Hansen, Kinney is a member of the team that produced The Wind and Beyond: Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America published by NASA. Volume one of The Wind and Beyond received the inaugural Eugene Ferguson Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Named in honor of one of SHOT's pioneering members, the Ferguson Prize recognizes an outstanding and original reference work that will support future scholarship in the history of technology. While at Auburn, Kinney served as an inaugural Auburn University Presidential Graduate Fellow from 1998 to 2000. From the Graduate School, he received the Dean's Award for Excellence for 1999-2000 and was named one of ten outstanding graduate students for 2000-2001. The College of Liberal Arts awarded him the W.C. Bradley Award for Graduate Student Achievement in the Humanities in 2000. Kinney received the department's Melvin Kranzberg Award for Outstanding Paper in the History of Technology in 2000. Kinney is the recipient of both the American Historical Association National Aeronautics and Space Administration Fellow in Aerospace History and the Smithsonian Institution Guggenheim Fellowship in Aerospace History. He attended Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in May 1994. He lives in suburban Maryland and drives his 1966 Triumph TR4A every chance he gets.
Last updated Nov. 16, 2007. |
