PATRICK M. MALONE is an Associate Professor in the American Civilization Department and the Urban Studies Program at Brown University, where he has taught since 1972. He also heads a consulting firm known as Historic Engineering Associates. His Ph.D. in history is from Brown University.

For fifteen years, Professor Malone was director of the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He is a past president of the Society for Industrial Archeology and the only winner of both of its awards: the Society's Norton Prize for "outstanding scholarship in industrial archeology" in 1989 and its General Tools Award for "service to industrial archeology" in 1996. His Norton Prize was for an article on incremental innovation at Springfield Armory.

His publications include The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indians for Johns Hopkins University Press and The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America, written with Professor Robert B. Gordon for Oxford University Press. The American Institute of Architects gave one of its 1994 "International Architecture Book Awards" to The Texture of Industry, and Choice listed it as one of the "outstanding academic books" for 1995.

Professor Malone's most recent publication is a special journal issue on "Green Engineering: Parks and Promenades in the Industrial Community." He contributed an article to and has served as guest editor for this 1998 issue of IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology.

(31 July 2001)