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Faculty Profile
Dr. David Kirsch is Associate
Professor of Management and
Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department
at the University of Maryland's Robert
H. Smith School of Business. From 1996
to 2001, Kirsch held various adjunct and
visiting appointments at the Anderson
Graduate School of Management,
University of California, Los Angeles.
He received his PhD in history from
Stanford University in 1996. His
research interests include industry
emergence, technological choice,
technological failure and the role of
entrepreneurship in the emergence of new
industries. In 2000 Rutgers University
Press published his revised
dissertation, The Electric Vehicle and
the Burden of History. His work on the
early history of the automobile industry
has also been published in Business
History Review and Technology and
Culture. In 2003, his co-authored
article on the Electric Vehicle Company
received the IEEE Life Members Prize
from the Society for the History of
Technology. Kirsch is also interested in
methodological problems associated with
historical scholarship in the digital
age. With the support of grants from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the
Library of Congress, he is currently
building a digital archive of the Dot
Com Era that will preserve at-risk,
born-digital content about business and
culture during the late 1990s. Selected
materials are available to the public at
www.dotcomarchive.org.
Primary Research Areas
- History of modern technology
- Entrepreneurial and
technological failure
- Internet Technology
Entrepreneurship
- Global environmental management
systems
Selected Publications
Kirsch, D., The Electric Vehicle
and the Burden of History, (Rutgers
University Press, 2000)
Mom, G., and Kirsch, D.,
"Technologies in Tension: Horses,
Electric Trucks and the Motorization of
American Cities, 1900-1925"
Technology and Culture, 2001
Kirsch, D., "How Electricity Could
Power the Car of Today" Nature,
2001
Honors and Awards
- Research Grant, Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation
- Research Grant, AT&T Foundation
- Research Grant, Hewlett Foundation
Consulting Work
- Alternative Fuel Vehicles
- Biotechnology
- New Media
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