Dr. Curtis to contribute to technology encyclopedia

Dr. Anthony Curtis (Mass Communications) will contribute several articles to a new Encyclopedia of American Technology to be published in 2008 by ABC-CLIO and the Western Reserve Historical Society.

ABC-CLIO is a Santa Barbara, Calif., publisher of academic and reference books and CD-ROMs and research publications. The company focuses on history and social studies resources for scholars, students, teachers and librarians in universities and secondary schools. It may be best known for its databases, America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts, which are mainstays of bibliographic research for historians. ABC-CLIO's reference books have won numerous awards from Library Journal, Choice, and Booklist.

The latest work in which Dr. Curtis will participate is an historical encyclopedia of American technology.

Dr. Curtis previously wrote 13 article entries for Space and Humanity: An Historical Encyclopedia to be published this year by ABC-CLIO and the American Astronautical Society.