Amy Sue Bix is an American historian of science, technology and medicine whose research topics include studies of women and gender, the history of education, and twentieth-century social, cultural, and intellectual history. She is a distinguished professor of history at Iowa State University.

Bix grew up in the Chicago area.^[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Princeton University in 1987, with Sigma Xi honors.^[2] At Princeton, she was one of the founders of The Princeton Tory, a conservative student magazine.^[3]

In 1994, she earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation, Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981, was selected as one of the American Library Association's Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles.^[2]

Bix has been a history professor at Iowa State University since 1993.^[1] In 2007 she became the director of Iowa State's Consortium for the History of Technology and Science.^[4] May 2023 she was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.^[5]

Bix's books include:

• Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press, 2013)^[6]
• The Future is Now: Science and Technology Policy in America Since 1950 (with Alan I. Marcus, Humanity Books, 2007)^[7]
• Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)^[8]

Bix is the recipient of:

• The 2022 Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)^[9]
• The 2021 Martha Trescott Prize of SHOT^[10]
• The 2015 Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding and the Advancement of the Engineering Profession of the IEEE^[11]
• The 2015 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize of the History of Science Society^[12]
• The 2014 Betty Vetter Award for Research of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN)^[13]