Department of History

Lindy Biggs received her PhD from MIT in history of technology, her MA and BS are from University of Missouri. She teaches and writes about technology and its social context and consequences. Her research has focused on industrialization in both the U.S. and Britain, and more specifically on the physical reality of industrialization. Her first book, The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), examined the creation of the American mass-production factory. She is currently writing about the first factories in eighteenth-century England, their employment of child labor, and the debates that arose around early industrialization. She has received a grant from the National Science Foundation and was a senior fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT in support of the project.

Biggs has also been a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Norway and served as the Secretary of the Society for the History of Technology.

Other scholarly interests include environmental history about which she teaches and is making plans for future research.

She currently serves as Executive Director of the Sustainability Initiative at Auburn University.

• PhD, MIT
• MA, Missouri
• BS, Missouri

Books

• The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)

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