Corinna Schlombs

2023 Submissions

Journal Paper

Schlombs, Corinna. "Built on the Hands of Women: Data, Automation, and Gender in the West German Financial Industry." Technology and Culture 64. 1 (2023): 63-89. Print. «

2022 Submissions

Journal Paper

Schlombs, Corinna. "Ada Lovelace’s Skills with Language, Music, and Needlepoint Contributed to Her Pioneering Work in Computing." The Conversation. (2022): n/a. Web.

Book Chapter

Schlombs, Corinna. "Women, Gender and Computing: The Social Shaping of a Technical Field from Ada Lovelace’s Algorithm to Anita Borg’s ‘Systers’." The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science: History, Cultures and Practice since 1660. Ed. Claire G. Jones, Alison E. Martin, and Alexis Wolf. London, Great Britain: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. 307-332. Web. ∆

Schlombs, Corinna. "Women, Gender and Computing: The Social Shaping of a Technical Field from Ada Lovelace’s Algorithm to Anita Borg’s ‘Systers’." The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science: History, Culture and Practice since 1660. London, Great Britain: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. 307-332. Print. ∆

2021 Submissions

Book Chapter

Schlombs, Corinna. "Gender is a Corporate Tool." Your Computer Is On Fire. Ed. Thomas S. Mullaney, et al. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 159-178. Print. ∆

External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee

7/1/2021 - 6/30/2022
     Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
     Amount: $400

Peer Reviewed/Juried Poster Presentation or Conference Paper

Schlombs, Corinna. "Primary Sources for a Globalizing History of Technology: A Companion Website as a Teaching Tool." Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology and the History of Science Society. Ed. n/a. Virtual and New Orleans, Louisiana: n.p.. £

Schlombs, Corinna. "Giving Women a Practical Education: Domestic Science at Rochester Institute of Technology." Proceedings of the Mechanics' Institutes Worldwide Conference. Ed. n/a. Virtual and Edinburgh, Scotland: n.p.. £

Schlombs, Corinna. "Computers, Assetization, and Productivity in the West German Financial Industry." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Ed. n/a. Virtual and Toronto, Canada: n.p.. £

2020 Submissions

Published Review

Schlombs, Corinna. "Frank Bösch ed. Wege in die Digitale Gesellschaft: Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990. (Towards a Digital Society: Computer Use in West Germany 1955-1990)." Rev. of Wege in die Digitale Gesellschaft: Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990, ed. Frank Bösch. Technology and Culture Oct. 2020: 1248-1250. Print.

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Schlombs, Corinna. "Quantifizierung, Statistische Expertise und Produktivität (Quantification, Statistical Expertise, and Productivity)." Oberseminar. Technical University Darmstadt. Darmstadt, NY. 15 Dec. 2020. Guest Lecture. ∆

Schlombs, Corinna. "US Labor Unions, Automation, and Technical Unemployment: Fighting for Whose Justice." Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN. 23 Oct. 2020. Conference Presentation. ∆

Schlombs, Corinna. "The Marshall Plan, Productivity, and Free Trade." Model UN Conference. St. John Fisher College. ROCHESTER, NY. 7 Mar. 2020. Guest Lecture.

External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee

2/6/2020 - 12/31/2021
     Arthur L. Norberg Travel Grant, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
     Amount: $1,000 ≠

2019 Submissions

Full Length Book

Schlombs, Corinna. Productivity Machines: German Appropriations of American Technology from Mass Production to Computer Automation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. Print. *

Journal Paper

Schlombs, Corinna. "Unerkannte Personen der Computertechnik: Dateneingabe im Bankwesen." Ferrum 91. (2019): 86-92. Print. ∆

2018 Submissions

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Schlombs, Corinna. "Computing's Workforce: Women Keypunch Operators, Gender, and Class in Banking Automation." Technikhistorische Tagung. Eisenbibliothek. Schaffhausen, Switzerland. 16 Nov. 2018. Conference Presentation. ∆

Schlombs, Corinna. "Supporting and Awarding Historical Research and Publication." Annual Meeting. Society of the History of Technology. St. Louis, MO. 12 Oct. 2018. Conference Presentation. £

Schlombs, Corinna. "Productivity for European Economic Recovery: Statistical Expertise, Quantification, and Power in the Marshall Plan." Annual Meeting. Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Philadelphia, PA. 22 Jun. 2018. Conference Presentation. £

Schlombs, Corinna. "German and US Labor Unions, Productivity, and Technological Innovation Before and After World War II." Annual Meeting. Business History Conference. Baltimore, MA. 7 Apr. 2018. Conference Presentation. £

2017 Submissions

Journal Paper

Schlombs, Corinna. "The ‘IBM Family’: American Welfare Capitalism, Labor and Gender in Postwar Germany." IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 39. 4 (2017): 12-26. Web. *

Schlombs, Corinna. "A Cost-Saving Machine: Computing at the German Allianz Insurance Company." Information and Culture 52. 1 (2017): 31-63. Print. *

2016 Submissions

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Schlombs, Corinna. "Watson, Women, and Work: Global Culture and Gender at IBM." Shift CTRL: New Perspectives on Computing and New Media. Stanford University. Stanfor, CA. 6-7 May 2016. Conference Presentation. ∆

Schlombs, Corinna. "The Promise of Productivity: Technology and the American Capitalist Model in US-German Relations." Annual Meeting. Society for the History of Technology. Singapore, Singapore. 22-26 Jun. 2016. Conference Presentation. £

Schlombs, Corinna. "Labor and Gender in Transatlantic Perspective: IBM’s Welfare Capitalist Model in Postwar Germany." Annual Meeting. German Studies Association. San Diego, CA. 29-2 Sep. 2016. Conference Presentation. £

Schlombs, Corinna and Kelly Norris Martin. "Visual Culture, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender in Technical Corporations.”." Seneca Falls Dialogues. WILL. Seneca Falls, NY. 21-23 Oct. 2016. Conference Presentation. £

2015 Submissions

Journal Paper

Schlombs, Corinna, et al. "Changing an Institutional Environment through Appreciative Inquiry: Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Liberal Arts." Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal 1. (2015): 103-121. Web. ˜

2014 Submissions

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Schlombs, Corinna. "Avoiding the Productivity Paradox? Computing at the German Allianz Insurance Company." Penn's Economic History Forum. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. 14 Nov. 2014. Conference Presentation. ∆

Schlombs, Corinna. "World Peace through World Trade: IBM's Corporate Diplomacy Before and After World War II." Business History Conference. Business History Conference. Frankfurt, Germany. 14 Mar. 2014. Conference Presentation. *

Schlombs, Corinna, et al. "Hidden Spaces, Mobile Places: Changing an Institutional Environment through Appreciative Inquiry." Seneca Falls Dialogues. Women's Institute for Leadership and Learning. Seneca Falls, NY. 18 Oct. 2014. Conference Presentation. *