My research centers on the culture, history, and politics of technology in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. In my work, I aim to contribute to an ongoing expansion of the geographic reach of the the history of technology (and science and technology studies,) beyond Europe and North America. In my courses I explore exciting recent scholarship on Asia, Africa, and Latin America which is transforming the history of technology into a discipline with a truly global scope. My latest project examines the connections between technology, and democratic and populist thinking in Indonesia in the postcolonial period, 1945-present. A recent article, “Justice, Geography, and Steel: Technology and National Identity in Indonesian Industrialization” appearing in OSIRIS 2009 explores the uses of technology in national identity formation in Indonesia. My recent book Technology and Ethical Idealism: A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies (Leiden: CNWS, 2007) explores the complexities of the technological politics of “native development” in colonial Indonesia in the early 20th century.http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/currenthttp://www.cnwspublications.com/series/soh.asp#SOH9shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1
Contact me: suzannemoon@ou.edu University of Oklahoma Department of the History of Science 610 Elm St/PHSC 624 Norman OK 73019 Visit the webpage for the Department of the History of Science: http://www.ou.edu/cas/hsci/hsci/Home.htmlmailto:suzannemoon@ou.eduhttp://www.ou.edu/cas/hsci/hsci/Home.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1
Suzanne Moon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of the History of Science
University of Oklahoma
 
Mathematics and Art: A batik fractal  desgn from the Pixel People Project, Bandung Indonesia.