Cliopatria welcomes Robert MacDougall to its circle. He is already known to readers of Cliopatria for his terrific website and blog at RobMacDougall.org. Rob is a native of Ontario, Canada, and did his undergraduate work at Queen's University at Kingston. He earned his graduate degrees at Harvard and is now on a post-doc at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge. His interests as an American historian are in nineteenth and twentieth century business and technology. As a young historian, Rob already has a number of distinguished awards and publications. He is currently transforming his dissertation, The People's Telephone: The Politics of Telephony in the United States and Canada, 1876-1926, into his first book. As this suggests, he's interested in transnational and comparative history and in other fascinating things like anti-science, pseudo-science, and robots. For fine samples of his blogging, try any of these. We're delighted that Rob has agreed to join us.