Dr. Russell teaches courses in American history, the history of science and technology, and the history and politics of information networks. He arrived at Stevens in 2008 after a postdoctoral fellowship [End Page 381] at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Dr. Russell earned his PhD in the history of science and technology from the Johns Hopkins University as well as degrees in history from the University of Colorado at Boulder (MA, 2003) and Vassar College (BA, 1996). He has published articles in Enterprise & Society, History of Technology, Enterprises et histoire, and the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and is currently finishing a book on the history of standardization in information networks, tentatively titled An Open World: History, Ideology, and Network Standards.