Edward Jones-Imhotep is an award-winning historian of technology. He received his PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. His first book, The Unreliable Nation, won the prestigious Sidney Edelstein Prize for best scholarly work the history of technology. In 2017, he was awarded the Abbott Payson Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. He is currently Professor and Director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.