Personal statement
Matthew N. Eisler studies the relationship between environmental and energy policy and industrial science and technology, with a particular focus on material practice in the postindustrial era. In 2017, Dr. Eisler moved to the University of Strathclyde from North Carolina State University, where he served as Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program. In 2022, Dr. Eisler completed his second book (Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car, forthcoming in MIT Press), a history of the contemporary electric automobile. Dr. Eisler is also one of the founders and principals of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Sustainable Practices of Research in Energy (C-INSPRE), an innovative interdisciplinary program of doctoral training that links all four faculties of the University of Strathclyde.
Research interests
- Energy and Environmental Studies
- Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
- History of Engineering
- Social and Cultural history of the United States
Professional activities
- From Petroleum to Power Sources: Big Oil and the Sociotechnics of Energy Conversion
- Invited speaker
- 12/5/2022
- Annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science
- Speaker
- 9/10/2021
- Rethinking Electrical History: From Esoteric Knowledge to Invisible Infrastructure to Fragile Networks
- Invited speaker
- 25/9/2020
- Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology
- Speaker
- 25/10/2019
- Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology
- Participant
- 13/10/2018
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Projects
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Sustainable Practices of Research in Energy (C-INSPRE) - Strathclyde CDT
- Ivaturi, Aruna (Principal Investigator) Robertson, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Comerford, David (Principal Investigator) Eisler, Matthew (Principal Investigator)
- Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training (https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/c-inspre/) - £332,658.0
- 01-Jan-2019
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