Graduate Research Assistant
Phone: 404.385.4617
Nathan W. Moon is a Graduate Research Assistant for the Center for Advanced Communications Policy and Wireless RERC, as well as a 4th year doctoral student in the School of History, Technology & Society at Georgia Tech. Nathan’s current research with the CACP/Wireless RERC includes work on electronic voting and disability, how planning curricula might better meet the needs of people with disabilities, and the effects of telecommuting on the employment of people with disabilities. He is also associate editor for the Center’s Telecom/IT Policy Highlights.
Nathan’s academic focuses are the history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology, history of technology, and 20th century U.S. history. His prospective dissertation topic is a history of psychostimulants in the 20th century, with particular attention to the role of medical practices and innovation and regulation within the pharmaceutical industry. Nathan has recently given presentations on the early history of Ritalin at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) in Madison, Wisconsin, and as an invited speaker at McGill University in Montreal. His paper, “‘Vim, Vigor, and Vitality’: A History of Ritalin before the Hyperkinetic Child,” won the 2004-2005 Bernard P. Bellon Prize, given annually to an outstanding work of original research in the history of labor, industry, technology, and society. In addition, Nathan is currently co-chair (with Todd Olszewski, Yale University) of the AAHM’s committee on student affairs. He is also a member of the steering and program committee for the Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine.
Nathan completed his requirements for the M.S. in the History and Sociology of Science and Technology from Georgia Tech in 2004. He received his M.A. in History in 2002 and his B.A., magna cum laude, in History in 1999, both from Georgia College & State University, in Milledgeville, Georgia. His M.A. thesis, “My Devotion to Our Cause”: Emma Goldman, Anarchism, and American Social Movements, 1910-1918, explored famed anarchist Emma Goldman’s involvement in the feminist and birth control movements in the early 20th century and anti-conscription movement during World War I. While at Georgia College, Nathan was Music Director and, later, General Manager, for WGUR 88.9 FM for three years.