12 Facts About Elizabeth Eisenstein

Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th-century France.

Elizabeth Eisenstein reported that in the early 1950s she was not able to find a position in a university history department, not even part-time work.

Elizabeth Eisenstein eventually found a part-time position at American University.

Elizabeth Eisenstein taught as an adjunct professor at American University from 1959 to 1974, then the University of Michigan, where she was the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History.

Elizabeth Eisenstein held positions as a fellow at the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Elizabeth Eisenstein was visiting professor at Wolfson College, Oxford, and published her lectures from that period as Grub Street Abroad.

Elizabeth Eisenstein was professor emerita at the University of Michigan and an honorary fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.

Elizabeth Eisenstein's work brought historical method, rigor, and clarity to earlier ideas of Marshall McLuhan and others, about the general social effects of such media transitions.

Elizabeth Eisenstein's work influenced later thinking about the subsequent development of digital media.

Print "standardized and preserved knowledge which had been much more fluid in the age of oral manuscript circulation" Elizabeth Eisenstein recognizes this period of time to be very important in the development of human culture; however, she feels that it is often overlooked, thus, the 'unacknowledged revolution'.

In 2002, Elizabeth Eisenstein was involved in a debate with Adrian Johns in the American Historical Review over the degree to which printing was necessarily an agent of change or, as Johns argued, a vehicle of change which mostly carried messages that were shaped by outside social forces.

Elizabeth Eisenstein has received various awards and recognitions, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation.