Nathan Kapoor
Assistant Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 317
Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday
10:00-11:00 am
Other meeting times available on other days by request or via Zoom/Teams.
10:00-11:00 am
Other meeting times available on other days by request or via Zoom/Teams.
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Nathan Kapoor is an Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Professor Kapoor received his Ph.D. in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine from the University of Oklahoma in 2019.
Current Courses
HIS 200.003 Historical Conversations: Introduction to Historiography
HIS 499.024 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
HIS 287.002 Independent Study
HIS 490.006 Readings -- Field Of Study
HIS 291.008 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In History
HIS 105.003 World History
Teaching Interests & Areas
Energy History, Science and Technology Studies, Medical Humanities, Colonialism, and Engineering History
Research Interests & Areas
History of Electric Power Systems, New Zealand, British Empire, and Indigenous Studies
PhD
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
MA
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
BS
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tennessee
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Member
History and Social Sciences Education Program
2025
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Member
History and Social Sciences Education Program
2024
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Member
History and Social Sciences Education Program
2023
Book Review
Book Review of Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence. New African Histories. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2023
Nathan Kapoor.
(2023), 3, H-Net
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Nathan Kapoor.
(2020), 686-689, Technology and Culture
Book Review of Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
Nathan Kapoor.
Environmental History
Book, Chapter
Energy and empire
Nathan Kapoor.
(2021), 97-106, 10.4324/9780429273360-10, The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire, Routledge
“We Have no Niagara”: Electrifying the “Britain of the South”
Nathan Kapoor.
25, Electrical Conquest New Approaches to the History of Electrification, Springer
Book, Edited
Electricity in Victorian Britain: A Primary Source Reader
Nathan Kapoor.
(2025), 884, Routledge
Journal Article
"Who Has Seen the Wind": Imagining Wind Power for the Generation of Electricity in Victorian Britain
Nathan Kapoor.
Technology and Culture, 60 (2), 467-493, (2019), 10.1353/tech.2019.0032
Other
Edited Volume of Correspondences
Piers Hale, Elizabeth Neswald, Nathan Kapoor.
(2021)
Presentations
"Me a Scholar"
Nathan Kapoor.
"3 Minute Thesis" Style Colloquium for the Science Studies Initiative, Normal, IL, February 16, 2023
Empowering Colonialism: Electrification in New Zealand
Nathan Kapoor.
BEECon Seminar, IL, February 7, 2023
Seismic Shifts: The Wairakei Power Station and New Zealand's Energy (Re)Transition
Nathan Kapoor.
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Eugene, Oregon, March 22, 2022
Just Steam: Geothermal Energy and Indigenous Resource Reclamation in the Anthropocene
Nathan Kapoor.
Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Online, November 20, 2021
Neglected Terms: The Strange Relationship between Energy and Language
Nathan Kapoor.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Online, October 1, 2021