Hunter Heyck

• B.A., History with Distinction and Highest Honors, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1990
• Ph.D., History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000

I am interested in the ways that different tools and technologies have been used to represent, investigate, and model the workings of the mind and society, and in the social context and meaning of technological change. Currently, I am working on a social-cultural survey of the history of technology, intended for a broad(er) audience, with the working title Technology and Society from Gutenberg to AI.

• 19th- and 20th-century science
• Science and social thought
• History of technology
• Information technology and society
• Technology and the environment

• Artifice: Creating a Chosen World (manuscript in progress)
• “Cognitive Psychology During the Cold War Era,” chapter in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, Oxford U. Press, 2022.
• Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
• Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.