Aileen Fyfe

Aileen Fyfe is a historian.

Academia

Fyfe formerly lectured on the history of science and technology, typically nineteenth-century, at NUI Galway, c. 2000s.[1] She is currently based at the University of St Andrews and is Director of Research for the School of History. Her research there is focused on the circulation and consumption of knowledge from the late seventeenth century onwards.[2][3][4]

Fyfe is a member of the Council of the History of Science Society (USA). From 2002 to 2007 she was Treasurer of the British Society for the History of Science, and she was the Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's subcommittee on the History of Science until 2010.[2]

Selected publications
  • Fyfe, Aileen (2003), Science for Children, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, ISBN 9781843710219
  • Fyfe, Aileen (2004), Science and salvation: evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226276489
  • Fyfe, Aileen; Lightman, Bernard V (2007), Science in the marketplace: nineteenth-century sites and experiences, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226150024
  • Fyfe, Aileen (2012), Steam-powered knowledge: William Chambers and the business of publishing, 1820-1860, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226276519

Awards and honours

Fyfe was awarded the 2013 Edelstein Prize, recognizing Steam-Powered Knowledge as best book on the history of technology.[2]

References
  1. "TEDxGalway - Aileen Fyfe - The Victorian Information Revolution". 5 July 2010.
  2. "School of History". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  3. Posted 18 April 2016 by Jen Laloup in Podcast (18 April 2016). "The History of Scientific Publishing: An interview with Aileen Fyfe". PLOScast. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  4. Gielas, Anna (4 April 2015). "After 350 years of academic journals it's time to shake things up". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
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