John Mohr

John Mohr is a graduate student at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. He is pursuing a PhD in the history of technology, with a focus on the automobile. He is primarily interested in automobile manufacturing in the United States, but he has also written on automobile safety, labor policy in the auto industry, consumer advocacy, and gender in automobile marketing. His paper “The Soft Sell: Gender, Advertising, and the Chevrolet Corvair” won the Richard Scharchburg Award for Best Graduate Paper from the Society of Automotive Historians in 2013.