Amanda Katz is an Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University in Logan, UT. She additionally serves as a faculty researcher for Advancing Self-sufficiency through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification (ASPIRE). The ASPIRE Engineering Research Center is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Generation 4 ERC that conducts vital research and development for widespread adoption of electrified transportation. As an applied historian she focuses on rural and municipal infrastructures, transportation policy, and historical continuities among transit networks among interconnected global communities. Katz earned her PhD in American History from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Her current research project explores the development of American highway engineering in the early twentieth century. As a Fulbright Scholar, Katz will teach both graduate and undergraduate courses in the histories of science and technology, with special emphasis on examining continuities among Ottoman, Byzantine, and Islamic empires as well as the Greco-Roman era. Furthermore, in collaboration with her colleagues at the University of Crete, she will offer workshops and provide public lectures on matters of transportation infrastructures in peripheral or insular communities, and will conduct research at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS), Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) on the relationship between terrestrial and maritime transportation systems of the Saronic Islands and the formation of local economies and cultural heritage.