Adrian Dominic Sinclair Johns (born 19 October 1965 [1]) is a British-born academic. He earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1992. [2] He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2001, [3] and was appointed the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History. [4] He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2012. [5]
Johns is best known for his works on the history of information, particularly The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making [6] and Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. [7]
Johns met Alison Winter at Cambridge in 1987, and the two married in 1992. [8] She died in 2016. [9]
In 2002, Johns was involved in a debate with Elizabeth Eisenstein in the American Historical Review over the degree to which printing was necessarily an agent of change (which Einstein had argued) or, as Johns claimed, a vehicle of change which carried messages that were mostly shaped by outside social forces. [10] [11]
Adrian Dominic Sinclair Johns (born 19 October 1965 [1]) is a British-born academic. He earned a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1992. [2] He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2001, [3] and was appointed the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History. [4] He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2012. [5]
Johns is best known for his works on the history of information, particularly The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making [6] and Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. [7]
Johns met Alison Winter at Cambridge in 1987, and the two married in 1992. [8] She died in 2016. [9]
In 2002, Johns was involved in a debate with Elizabeth Eisenstein in the American Historical Review over the degree to which printing was necessarily an agent of change (which Einstein had argued) or, as Johns claimed, a vehicle of change which carried messages that were mostly shaped by outside social forces. [10] [11]