William Kelleher Storey

William Kelleher Storey was born in Queens, New York, in 1965. Bill grew up on Long Island and was educated at Andover, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins. He began his college teaching career at Harvard, where he taught writing from 1995 to 1997. Since 1999 he has been a history professor at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2013, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education named Storey to be the State Winner in the U.S. Professor of the Year competition. Bill's research and writing about the history of international conflict and technology has been supported by a Fulbright Scholarship as well as grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Society for the History of Technology has awarded him the Abbot Payson Usher Prize for the year's best journal article (2005) and the Sidney M. Edelstein Prize for the year's best book (2009).