Ruth Oldenziel (born 1958) is a Dutchhistorian of technology whose research interests include gender issues in technology, the technology exchange between the US and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, and thehistory of cycling. She is professor in the history of technology at theEindhoven University of Technology, and editor-in-chief ofTechnology and Culture.^[1]

Oldenziel was born in Amsterdam in 1958.^[2] After her undergraduate studies, Oldenziel earned a graduate diploma in American studies fromSmith College in 1982, a master's degree in history from theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Ph.D. in 1992 fromYale University.^[1][3]

She was an associate professor at theUniversity of Amsterdam before taking her present position in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at theEindhoven University of Technology.^[1]

In 2019 she was named as the editor-in-chief ofTechnology and Culture, succeedingSuzanne Moon in that position.^[4]

Oldenziel is the author of:

• Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870–1945 (Amsterdam University Press, 1999)^[5]
• Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe (withMikael Hård [de], Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)^[6]
• Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past: A Social History of Technology (with Erik van der Vleuten and Mila Davids, Amsterdam University Press, 2017)

Heredited volumes include:

• Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers 1870s – 1990s) (edited with Annie Canel andKarin Zachmann [de], Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000)^[7]
• Gender and Technology: A Reader (edited with Nina E. Lerman and Arwen P. Mohun, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)^[8]
• Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users (edited withKarin Zachmann [de], MIT Press, 2009)^[9]
• Manufacturing Technology, Manufacturing Consumers: The Making of Dutch Consumer Society (edited with Adri Albert de la Bruhèze, Aksant, 2009)^[10]
• Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes (edited with Gerard Alberts, Springer, 2014)^[11]
• Cycling and Recycling: Histories of Sustainable Practices (edited withHelmuth Trischler [de], Berghahn Books, 2016)^[12]
• Cycling Cities: The European Experience : Hundred Years of Policy and Practice (edited with Martin Emanuel, Adri Albert de la Bruhèze, and Frank Veraart, Foundation for the History of Technology and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, 2016)^[13]
• A U-Turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850 (edited with Martin Emanuel and Frank Schipper, Berghahn Books, 2020)^[14]

Oldenziel was the 2002 recipient of theMargaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize of theHistory of Science Society.^[15]

• 1958 births
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• Dutch historians
• Dutch women historians
• Historians of technology
• Smith College alumni
• University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
• Yale University alumni
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• Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology

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