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Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

Dissertation: Miracle Miles: From Roadbuilding to American Highway Engineering, 1893-1933
Tentative Book Manuscript Title:��Miracle Miles: How Highways Won the West, 1893-1933

Amanda Katz is a Lecturer and the Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, from where she received her Ph.D. in American History in 2021. A cultural and environmental historian, she specializes in the study of community responses to advancements in technology and infrastructure. Her dissertation, “Miracle Miles: From Roadbuilding to American Highway Engineering, 1893-1933,” which she is currently revising into a book manuscript, traces the origins of modern highway engineering as governmental, industrial, and academic��researchers faced the challenges of rural road improvement.��Amanda’s work has been supported by the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, the State Historical Society of Iowa, and the Lexington Group for Transportation History.��