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Adri  Albert de la Bruhèze

a.a.delabruheze@utwente.nl
University of Twente, School for Management and Covernance
Department of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS)
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
THE NETHERLANDS
phone: +31 (0)53 489 3341
fax: +31 (0)53 489 4775

Biographical Sketch

Adri Albert de la Bruhèze is Assistant Professor of History of Technology and of Science, Technology and Society (STS). He holds a degree in Political Science (MA) from the University of Amsterdam. In 1992 he received his PhD from the University of Twente. This PhD thesis was on the history of radioactive waste management in the United States. From 1993 till 2004 he has been editorial secretary, researcher, and co-editor of the seven volume national research program Techniek in Nederland in de Twintigste Eeuw (TIN-20). From 1998 till 2002 he has been project leader of the history of technology research program on the rise of Dutch Consumer Society entitled New Products and New Consumers. A History of a reciprocity 1890-1970, funded by the Dutch Research Council NWO. Since 2004 Albert de la Bruhèze is a member of the Tensions of Europe network. Since 2007 he participates within the ESF-Eurocores research program Inventing Europe: Technology and the making of Europe, 1850 to the present. Within this program he is principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Project European Ways of Life in the American Century: Mediating Consumption and Technology in the 20th century (EUWOl). Within Euwol he is member and coordinator of the Research Group Leisure and Tourism. Since his PhD Albert de la Bruhèze published on the history of radioactive waste management in the U.S., radiological weapons, the history of bicycle use in the Netherlands and Europe, food & nutrition history in the Netherlands, the co-evolution of technology and Dutch society in the twentieth century, the emergence of the Dutch consumer society in the twentieth century, the emergence of a European Consumer Society, and the Dutch appropriation of U.S. Models of Tourism.