Matthew H. Wisnioski

Matthew Wisnioski is a historian of science, technology, and innovation at Virginia Tech. Originally trained as a materials engineer, he went on to earn a PhD in History from Princeton and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include "Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America" (MIT Press, 2012), the co-edited volume "Does America Need More Innovators?" (MIT Press, 2019) with Eric Hintz and Marie Stettler Kleine, and "Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life" (MIT Press, 2025). He is currently at work on a history of The Magic School Bus.