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Sam Franz

@samhfranz.com

PhD Candidate, History & Sociology of Science @ University of Pennsylvania; Managing editor of the History of Science Society Newsletter. samhfranz.com

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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @samhfranz.com (@upenn.edu)’s review of Reem Hilu (Washington University in St. Louis)’s book _The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

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Sam Franz @samhfranz.com · 27/02/2026

I spent 5 minutes trying to find this sentence lol

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Sam Franz @samhfranz.com · 27/02/2026

This and Braverman's sequel completely changed my intellectual trajectory and politics!

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Join us for UPenn ABD & CBI Tomash Fellow @samfranz.bsky.social for the Tomash Fellow Lecture. Sam's talk "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945-1990." March 10th 1pm C. Register today (free) at link below. #Histtech #Capitalism z.umn.edu/FranzTomashL...

Flyer with portrait photo of Sam Franz for his CBI Tomash Lecture

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Sam Franz @samhfranz.com · 11/02/2026

In a short piece on the history of accessible design, I was quoted on the history of computing at the University of Michigan. Read here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Pioneering Accessibility: Early Computing, Screen Readers, and New Tech | Rackham Graduate School: University of Michigan Pioneering Accessibility: Early Computing, Screen Readers, and New Tech ...

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Sam Franz @samhfranz.com · 22/10/2025

With Véronique Mickisch I interviewed Edward Baring on the history of worker education in Marxist thought for JHI Blog

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Sam Franz @samhfranz.com · 05/08/2025

Brief reflection on materialist and Marxist approaches to the history of science in the latest HSS Newsletter, co-authored with @bolman.bsky.social & Claire Votava cdn.ymaws.com/hssonline.or...

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Sam Franz @samhfranz.com · 19/06/2025

A brief reflection on digital tools for the humanities, published by Clio and the Contemporary: clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/05/23/d...

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Digital Tools for the Humanities

Machines reconﬁgure work. And yet, historians or other humanistic researchers rarely think about the way that our digital workﬂows—the tools that we use to do our work—enable or disenable the kinds…

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