Speaker Tom Mullaney

Tom Mullaney is a historian, teacher, curator, archivist, and songwriter. Author of How We Disappear and The Chinese Typewriter, among 5 other books, Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University, a Guggenheim Fellow, former Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress, and Director of Stanford’s Science, Technology, and Society Program. He is also the UNESCO Chair in Digital Futures at Stanford, and Director of SILICON, a Stanford Presidential Initiative advancing endangered, at-risk, and digitally disadvantaged languages worldwide.