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Bedi, Joyce

Senior Historian

Positions

• Senior Historian, Lemelson Center 1995 -

History of technology, invention, photography.

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Background And Education

education and training

• B.A., Northeastern University
• M.A., James Cook University

Publications

selected publications

• article

  • Bedi, Joyce. 2019. "Ralph Baer: An interactive life." Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 1 (1):18-25. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.119 2019

• blog posting

  • Bedi, Joyce. 2018. "Inventive Minds: Women Inventors." [Blog] . 2018. http://invention.si.edu/inventive-minds-women-inventors. 2018
  • Bedi, Joyce. 2016. "A Heartfelt Story." [Blog] . 2016. https://invention.si.edu/heartfelt-story. 2016
  • Bedi, Joyce and Tatarewicz, Joseph N. 2016. "Hollywood Geek Fest-The Oscars Side Party." [Blog] . 2016. https://invention.si.edu/hollywood-geek-fest-oscars-side-party. 2016
  • Bedi, Joyce and Oswald, Alison. 2016. "Inventive Minds: Inventing Green." [Blog] . 2016. https://invention.si.edu/inventive-minds-inventing-green. 2016
  • Bedi, Joyce. 2015. "A Movie Star, Some Player Pianos, and Torpedoes." [Blog] . 2015. http://invention.si.edu/movie-star-some-player-pianos-and-torpedoes. 2015
  • Bedi, Joyce and Oswald, Alison. 2015. "Inventive Minds: Everyone Is Inventive." [Blog] . 2015. https://invention.si.edu/inventive-minds-everyone-inventive. 2015
  • Molella, Arthur P., Hintz, Eric S., Bedi, Joyce, Smith, Monica, and Brodie, Jeffrey. 2011. "Remembering Steve Jobs." [Blog] . 2011. http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2011/10/remembering-steve-jobs.html. 2011

• chapter

  • Bedi, Joyce. 2017. "Movies Meet the Rainbow." in Bright Modernity. Worlds of Consumption, edited by Blaszczyk, Regina Lee and Spiekermann, Uwe., 133-148. Palgrave Macmillan. 2017
  • Bedi, Joyce. 2015. "Fort Collins (2010s): Campus and City Combine Their Energies for a Greener Planet." in Places of Invention: A Companion to the Exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, edited by Molella, Arthur P. and Karvellas, Anna., 180-210. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2015
  • Bedi, Joyce. 2015. "Hollywood (1930s): Follow the Rainbow to the Movies' Golden Age." in Places of Invention: A Companion to the Exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, edited by Molella, Arthur P. and Karvellas, Anna., 156-179. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2015
  • Bedi, Joyce. 2015. "Hollywood, California (1930s) and Fort Collins, Colorado (2010s)." in Places of Invention: A Companion to the Exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, edited by Molella, Arthur P. and Karvellas, Anna., Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2015

• information content entity

  • Wallace, Harold D., Jr., Bedi, Joyce, and Stine, Jeffrey K (Curators). 2016. "Solar on the Line." Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2016-11-10 to 2018-03-01.. 2016

• review

  • Bedi, Joyce. 2018. [Book review] "Life on Display: Revolutionizing US Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century, by Karen A. Rader, Virginia E.M. Cain." Technology and Culture. 168-169. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2018.0011 2018

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Location

• National Museum of American History  Department