David Hochfelder Assistant Professor Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University M.S., Northwestern University B.S., Northwestern University 119C Social Sciences Department of History University at Albany, SUNY 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 Phone: (518) 442-5348 Fax: (518) 442-5301 dhochfelder@albany.edu

Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: His 309: The Gilded Age Graduate Courses: His 603/642: Readings in Public History Select Publications: Assistant Editor, The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, vols. 5 and 6 (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 and 2007). "'Where the Common People Could Speculate:' The Ticker, Bucket Shops, and the Origins of Popular Participation in Financial Markets, 1880-1920," Journal of American History 93, Sept. 2006. "Constructing an Industrial Divide: Western Union, AT&T, and the Federal Government, 1876-1971," Business History Review 76, Winter 2002. “The Legacies of the Postal Telegraph Movements in Great Britain and the United States, 1866-1920,” Enterprise and Society 1, Dec. 2000. Select Awards/Honors: Newcomen-Harvard Special Award in Business History, 2002. Awarded for best article in Business History Review by a recent Ph.D. Pre-Doctoral Fellow, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1996-1997. Current Research Interests: My research interests are public history, the history of technology, and business history. The main issue driving my research is the relationship between technological innovation and social change. I am completing a book–length history of the American telegraph industry. Full Curriculum Vitae