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     Kevin Borg is an Associate Professor of History. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. as a Hagley Fellow at the University of Delaware and the B.A. from the University of California, Riverside.

Dr. Borg teaches courses in United States history, the History of Technology, the Automobile in 20th Century America, and a Public History Practicum on Industry, Business and Workers in New South Virginia.

He supervises history internships and serves on the board of the Institute for Visual Studies as well as the steering committee for the Science, Technology and Society minor. He is chapter advisor to Phi Alpha Theta and Madison Motor Sports and is active in the Society for the History of Technology.

Dr. Borg's research interests include US social and cultural history, the history of technology, and public history.

He is the author of Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007); see here for reviewer comments and publisher information. He also published “Teaching with Historic Places: Sanborn Maps and Dusty Old Buildings”  in Notes on Virginia No. 52 (2008).

Kevin L Borg
(Full-time faculty)
History Department
CLEV 309
MSC 2001
office phone: +1 540 568 5761
e-mail: borgkl@jmu.edu
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