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Mar Hicks

History

#4490

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#6221

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#1589

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World History

#8

World Rank

#8

Historical Rank

#2

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Mar Hicks's Degrees

PhD History University of Illinois Chicago
Masters History University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Mar Hicks is a historian of technology, gender and modern Europe, notable for their work on the history of women in computing. Hicks is a professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science. Hicks wrote the 2017 book, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.

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Mar Hicks's Published Works

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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (2017) (111)
Only the Clothes Changed: Women Operators in British Computing and Advertising, 1950-1970 (2010) (22)
De-Brogramming the History of Computing (2013) (21)
Hacking the Cis-tem (2019) (13)
Hacking the Cis-tem: Transgender Citizens and the Early Digital State (2019) (7)
Computer Love: Replicating Social Order Through Early Computer Dating Systems (2016) (6)
Compiling Inequalities: Computerization in the British Civil Service and Nationalized Industries, 1940-1979 (2009) (5)
Repurposing Turing's "Human Brake" (2008) (4)
Only the Clothes Changed: Women Operators in British Computing and Advertising, 1950–1970 (2010) (4)
Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947-1967 (review) (2012) (3)
Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World by Jean Jennings Bartik (review) (2015) (3)
Technologies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society ed. by Knut Holtan Sørensen, Wendy Faulkner, and Els Rommes (review) (2014) (1)
Integrating Women at Oxford and Harvard Universities, 1964-1977 (2004) (1)
A History of Women in British Telecommunications: Introducing a Special Issue (2020) (1)
Introduction: Britain's Computer “Revolution” (2017) (0)
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (review) (2010) (0)
Using Digital Tools for Classroom Activism: Exploring Gender, Infrastructure, and Technological Discipline through a Public Bathroom Project (2015) (0)
Janet Abbate.Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing. x + 247 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012. $30 (cloth). (2013) (0)
Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank, eds.Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. x+416. $35.00 (paper). (2012) (0)
When Winning Is Losing: Why the Nation that Invented the Computer Lost Its Lead (2018) (0)

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