Thomas Haigh

Dr. Haigh's research interests include:

• role of technology in broader social change, especially the concept of a "revolutionary" technology and its curious longevity
• relationships between the institutional aspects of work, technology, and the subjective identities of different groups of worker (including managers, professionals and technicians)
• the exercise of power in organizations, and its relationship to expertise
• the concept of information and its ideological dimensions
• the particular characteristics of computer technology; the senses in which it is, and in which it is not, different from earlier technologies

Thomas Haigh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: History and Sociology of Science
Dissertation: "Technology, Information and Power: Managerial Technicians in the American Corporation: 1917-2000" advisor - Walter Licht (History Department)
Specialization: The Social Study of Business Organizations (Mauro Guillen, Wharton) Technology in Industrial America (Pap Ndiaye - EHESS, Paris) Living and Working in Industiral America (Walter Licht)

Manchester University (UK): Department of Computer Science
Systems Integration - dual degree program - Sept 1991 to Juy 1995
M.Eng., awarded with Distinction, B.Sc. 1st Class Honors (Top 5% of class)