Editorial Announcement

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I’m pleased to report that, beginning January 1, 2018, Cyrus Mody will serve as Editor-inChief of Engineering Studies: Journal of the International Network for Engineering Studies. After I announced in April 2017 that I would like to step down as editor, Atsushi Akera (Rensselaer), serving in his capacity as INES Co-coordinator, convened and chaired a search committee to locate the next editor. Committee members included Amy Sue Bix (Iowa State), Vivian Lagesen (NTNU), DonnaRiley (Purdue), andMatthewWisnioski (Virginia Tech), with contributions from Erin Cech (Michigan) and Honghong Tinn (Earlham). The committee did a superlative job, drafting a position announcement, screening candidates, conducting interviews with four finalists, and recommending that INES offer the five-year position to Cyrus. Fortunately, Cyrus accepted. He subsequently joined the editorial staff as Consulting Editor to help facilitate a smooth transition. Many thanks to the search committee for high-quality infrastructural scholarship in engineering studies. Cyrus C. M. Mody is Professor and Chair in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University. He holds an S.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University. Aftermanaging the Nanotechnology and Innovation Studies program at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, he joined the history faculty at Rice University, where he achieved tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Cyrus is author of Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology (MIT Press, 2011) and The Long Arm of Moore’s Law:Microelectronics andAmerican Science (MIT Press, 2017). Hewas awarded the 2014 Paul Bunge Prize by the German Chemical Society and the 2013 Cushing Memorial Prize from the University of Notre Dame Program in History and Philosophy of Science. Cyrus studies the commercialization of academic research, countercultural science and engineering, and the longue durée of responsible research and innovation (RRI). In 2015, he moved to Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, where he teaches in the Arts and Culture bachelor’s program and the Cultures of Arts, Science, and Technology research master’s program. The journal has taken important steps in building engineering studies as a welcoming multidisciplinary arena and expandingwhat counts as quality scholarshipwithin it. Its presencehashelpedmany scholars build careers that participate critically inworlds of engineers and engineering. In particular, it has made research on engineers and engineering beyond EuroAmerican contexts much more visible, and it has become a go-to outlet for research and critical participation on women and gender in engineering. At the same time, many opportunities exist to further expand the journal’s support for the engineering studies community, related scholarly communities, and those who benefit from their contributions. I leave it to Cyrus and his editorial team to figure out what to do next and how to do it.