Hunter Heyck

Hunter Heyck received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and came to OU in 2001. He is interested in the ways that different tools and technologies have been used to represent, investigate, and model the workings of the mind and society, and in the social context and meaning of technological change. Currently, he is working on a social-cultural survey of the history of technology, intended for a broad(er) audience, with the working title Artifice: Creating a Chosen World. 

B.A., History with Distinction and Highest Honors, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1990
Ph.D., History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000

19th- and 20th-century science; science and social thought; history of technology; information technology and society; technology and the environment

Artifice: Creating a Chosen World (manuscript in progress)

“Cognitive Psychology During the Cold War Era,” chapter in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, Oxford U. Press, 2022.

Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Co-PI of OU's Center on Creativity and Authenticity in AI Cultural Production

In collaboration with Kimberly Marshall and Peter Froslie. $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant, awarded August 2024. Read more about the project and additional collaborators here.

Co-PI of Engineering Just Futures: Preparing Engineers to Integrate Technical, Sociocultural, and Environmental Perspectives

In collaboration with Dr. Jacob Pleasants, Dr. Moses Olayemi, Dr. Brandon Abbott, and Dr. Jacquelyn Vadjunec. $25,000 OU Institute for Community and Society Transformation grant, awarded June 2024. Read more here.