Christine Keiner is Professor and Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, and a member of the Department of History at Rochester Institute of Technology where she teaches courses on the Great Lakes, the history of women in science and engineering, and other aspects of the history of science, technology, and the environment. She is the author of two books—The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 and Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal—and several journal articles, including in Rochester History.
She has also served as a research associate with the Institutional History Division of the Smithsonian Institution Archives as a summer faculty member with the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport Museum, and as a consultant on the “Bay to Belly” traveling exhibit organized by the Watermen’s Museum in Yorktown, Virginia. She is excited to join the Board of Trustees of the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House and looks forward to contributing to research on the links between the suffrage movement and the Erie Canal.