Joyce Bedi is Senior Historian Emerita at the Lemelson Center. She is the lead editor, with co-editors Arthur Daemmrich and Eric S. Hintz, of the Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation book series with MIT Press, and the co-editor, with Arthur Molella, of the first volume in the series, Inventing for the Environment (2003).

Joyce joined the Lemelson Center at its founding in 1995. She was responsible for the Center’s scholarly publication program and website, and assisted with the development of scholarly programs and exhibitions. She was the curator for the Inventive Minds gallery, a co-curator of the award-winning Places of Invention exhibition, and lead curator for the Picturing Women Inventors exhibition at the museum and for the poster version produced and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. She has also authored publications and exhibitions on a range of topics in the history of invention.

Before joining the Lemelson Center, Bedi's research and curatorial career included positions at the MIT Museum, the Edison National Historic Site, the IEEE History Center, and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

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. 2022. "Who Invented the Environment?" Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Blog Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Apr 22, 2022. https://invention.si.edu/collections-who-invented-environment. 2022
• Bedi, Joyce. 2020. "Lupe Hernandez and the Invention of Hand Sanitizer." Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Blog Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Mar 23, 2020. https://invention.si.edu/lupe-hernandez-and-invention-hand-sanitizer. 2020
• Bedi, Joyce. 2018. "Inventive Minds: Women Inventors." Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation http://invention.si.edu/inventive-minds-women-inventors. 2018
• Bedi, Joyce. 2016. "A Heartfelt Story." Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Feb 24, 2016. https://invention.si.edu/heartfelt-story. 2016
• Bedi, Joyce and Tatarewicz, Joseph N. 2016. "Hollywood Geek Fest-The Oscars Side Party." Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Washinton, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Feb 29, 2016. https://invention.si.edu/hollywood-geek-fest-oscars-side-party. 2016
• Bedi, Joyce and Oswald, Alison. 2016. "Inventive Minds: Inventing Green." Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation https://invention.si.edu/inventive-minds-inventing-green. 2016
• Bedi, Joyce. 2015. "A Movie Star, Some Player Pianos, and Torpedoes." Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation http://invention.si.edu/movie-star-some-player-pianos-and-torpedoes. 2015
• Bedi, Joyce and Oswald, Alison. 2015. "Inventive Minds: Everyone Is Inventive." Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation 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." O Say Can You See? Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Oct 6, 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. Blaszczyk, Regina Lee and Spiekermann, Uwe, editors. 133–148. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50745-3_7. 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. Molella, Arthur P. and Karvellas, Anna, editors. 180–210. Washington, DC: 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. Molella, Arthur P. and Karvellas, Anna, editors. 156–179. Washington, DC: 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. Molella, Arthur P. and Karvellas, Anna, editors. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2015

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, 59, (1), 168–169. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2018.0011. 2018

Webpage

• Bedi, Joyce. 2021. Diverse Voices: Immigrant Inventors. 2021

Exhibit

• 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..