Corinna Schlombs

Corinna Schlombs

Associate Professor
College of Liberal Arts
Department of History

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. *