Professor Schmidt Horning came to St. John’s University in 2007
after teaching at The Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western
Reserve University, where she took her Ph.D. in 2002. She
specializes in history of technology, 19th- and 20th- century
United States cultural history, and sound studies. She
teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in postwar U.S. history,
media and technology, and global history since 1500. Her
research has focused on the interplay between technology,
engineering, creativity, musical culture, labor and business in the
American recording industry. Prof. Schmidt Horning is
completing her first book, Chasing Sound: Recording Studios in
America, to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and her
essays have appeared in Music and Technology in the Twentieth
Century (2002), The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon
(2004), and in the journals ICON and Social Studies of
Science. In 2006 she was appointed to the Editorial Advisory
Board of Technology and Culture, the journal of the Society for the
History of Technology. Her research has been supported by the
National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the American Association of University Women, and the
Association for Recorded Sound Collections.