Katherine Kay-Mouat (Picture editor)

Katherine Kay-Mouat went to school in the Channel Islands. Then she attended L ‘École des Beaux Arts de Caen before attending Parsons School of Design in New York. Her teachers included Arthur Rothstein of the FSA and Ben Fernandez, both world famous photojournalists. After working for Greenpeace International as their International photo editor she was hired as International photo editor for the news magazine U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT. As sole representative of the photo department for this major US publication she covered a vast geographical area: Europe, Asia, Africa and the former Soviet Union. Presently she is an independent photo editor working on a number of books and regular projects for UNESCO. She is the picture editor of the Making Europe book series.

Johan Schot (Series editor)

Johan Schot is professor in social history of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, and scientific director of the Foundation for the History of Technology. He also co-directs the Foundation for Systems Innovation (KSI). Johan Schot was the program leader of the National Research Program on the History of Technology in the Netherlands in the 20th century. This program included the publication of a series of seven volumes, Ph. D. theses, monographs, and scientific and popular articles, and contributions to exhibitions, policy workshops and websites for teaching. Together with Kurt Fischer he is co-founder of the Greening of Industry Network and project leader of several EU funded international projects. Johan Schot is also chairing the network ‘Tensions of Europe, Technology and the Making of Europe’. In 2002 the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded him under the Innovational Research Incentives scheme for talented scholars (highest category) a research grant to establish his own research program (see www.tie-project.nl). In 2009 Johan Schot was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). From September 2010 until July 2011 he worked as a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar, writing and editing a six-volume book series (see www.makingeurope.eu). The book series, provisionally entitled Making Europe: Technology and Transformation 1850-2000, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.

Philip Scranton (Series editor)

Philip Scranton is University Board of Governors Professor, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, where chairs the MA-History program. Scranton also directs the Hagley Museum & Library's research arm, the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, and is Editor-in-Chief of the business history  quarterly, Enterprise and Society (Oxford Univ. Press).  His publications include twelve books and ca. 70 scholarly articles, multiple contributions to museum catalogs, and numerous reviews of books, conferences, and exhibits. Since 1985, he has presented research papers at over 75 international conferences in Europe, Canada, Latin America Australia, and Japan. He edits three monograph series, for the Johns Hopkins University Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press and in association with the ESF’s Inventing Europe mega-project (Making Europe: Technology and Transformation, 1850-2000  - six studies of 20th century European technological development).   His current research examines the course of specialty manufacturing in  the United States from World War Two through the 1980s with a special focus on Cold War technological innovation (jet propulsion, plastics, instrumentation, machine tools, materials and aerospace vehicles). In the jet engine case, he is exploring cross-national contrasts and resonances among engineering development projects in the US, Britain and France, 1940-1970.