Glenn E. Bugos will be the second recipient of the AHA Fellowship in Aerospace History, a program supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
In 1983 Bugos received a BS from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC. He has a master of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he is also completing the doctoral degree in the Department of History and Sociology of Science. He has supplemented this training with historical positions at the Navy Laboratories and as a fellow in the Aeronautics Department of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM).
In addition to delivering papers at meetings of the Society for the History of Technology, the XIX International Congress in the History of Science, and the Naval Academy Conference on World Affairs, Bugos has also been awarded a predoctoral fellowship by the Smithsonian Institution, the Rovensky Fellowship in Business and Economic History, as well as a grant and fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania. He passed his PhD qualifying examinations with distinction in 1985 and will be defending his dissertation in December of this year. The focus of his dissertation has been on aerospace engineering and management during the crucial period of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The topic of Bugos’ fellowship research is “Testing the F-4 Phantom II: Engineering Practice in the Development of American Military Aircraft, 1954–1972.” While continuing work begun as a fellow at the NASM in the archives at the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and the Museum, he will broaden the scope of his analysis with attention to oral history interviews, examination of the F-4 project records of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation in St. Louis and the Air Force Systems Command in Dayton, Ohio, the records for the APQ-72 radar at the Westinghouse Aerospace Division in Baltimore, and the Sparrow III missile records at the Raytheon engineering office in Bedford, Massachusetts. During his fellowship year, Bugos will be affiliated with the NASA History Office at NASA headquarters.
Deadline for the 1988–89 fellowship is February 1, 1988. The fellowship, administered by the AHA in cooperation with the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the History of Science Society (HSS), and the Economic History Association (EHA) is awarded in an annual competition by a joint committee of representatives from each organization and chaired by Professor Melvin Kranzberg of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The fellowship is for pre- and post-doctoral research in any area of NASA-related history. For information write the office of the Executive Director, AHA, 400 A St. SE, Washington, DC 20003.
