Bio
Jiemin Tina Wei is Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. A historian of science by training, she studies how science transformed work and business in modern America. Her book project, When Workers Won’t Work: How Scientists, Employers, and Social Reformers Understood and Sought Remedies for Industrial Fatigue and Other Workplace Afflictions, 1910-1940, traces the history of fatigue in the workplace, in the US in the first half of the twentieth century.
Wei’s work has appeared in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History and The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences and has been recognized by awards such as Harvard University’s Bowdoin Prize, Princeton University’s Alexander Guthrie McCosh Prize, and the Business History Conference’s K. Austin Kerr Prize. Her research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. She received her PhD from Harvard and her AB (summa cum laude) from Princeton.
At FIU, Wei teaches courses in US history, labor history, business history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine and welcomes outreach from any students interested in the intersection of technology, work, health, and capitalism.
Courses
- AMH 4375: Technology and American Society (Fall 2025) (Focus: History of AI)
- AMH 4500: History of Work and Capitalism (Spring 2026)
- AMH 2020: American History Introductory Survey Since 1877 (Spring 2026)
- HIS 4931: History Lab (Fall 2026) (Focus: The Corporation)