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Sam Franz
@samfranz.bsky.social
Historian of computing, capitalism, and the modern university

PhD Candidate, History & Sociology of Science @ University of Pennsylvania

Presently a Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin
With Véronique Mickisch I interviewed Edward Baring on the history of worker education in Marxist thought for JHI Blog
Today on the blog, Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch interview Edward Baring about his forthcoming book, "Vulgar Marxism," which studies how projects for worker education shaped 20th-c. Marxist thought.
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The Intellectual History of Worker Education: An Interview with Edward Baring
by Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch
web.sas.upenn.edu
October 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brief reflection on materialist and Marxist approaches to the history of science in the latest HSS Newsletter, co-authored with @bolman.bsky.social & Claire Votava

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August 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A brief reflection on digital tools for the humanities, published by Clio and the Contemporary: clioandthecontemporary.com/2025/05/23/d...
Digital Tools for the Humanities
Machines reconfigure work. And yet, historians or other humanistic researchers rarely think about the way that our digital workflows—the tools that we use to do our work—enable or disenable the kinds…
clioandthecontemporary.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM