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Alan Beyerchen (1973), The Politics of Academic Physics in the Third Reich: A Study of Ideology and Science. Professor of history at Ohio State University, Columbus.

Neil York (1978), Technology in Revolutionary America, 1760-1790. Professor at Brigham Young University.

Elizabeth Hodes (1982), Precedents for Social Responsibility Among Scientists: The American Association of Scientific Workers and the Federation of American Scientists, 1938-1948. Professor at Santa Barbara City College.

James Williams (1984), Energy Resources and Uses in Rural California: An Historical Overview. Professor at De Anza College, California.

Jeffrey Stine (1984), Environmental Politics and Water Resources Development: A Case Study of the Army Corps of Engineers During the 1970s. Curator, Division of the History of Technology, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Donald Fitzgerald (1986), A History of Containerization in the California Maritime Industry: The Case of San Francisco. Formerly historical consultant and public historian at Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies.

Gail Cooper (1987), Manufactured Weather: A History of Air Conditioning in the United States, 1902-1955. Professor at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania.

Adolph Tiddens (1988), Aquaculture in America: The Role of Science, Government, and the Entrepreneur. CEO of The Proteus Group, Santa Barbara.

Eva Anda (1989), Preserving Freedoms in the Republic of Science: Soviet Challenge and Western Reply. CEO of computer consulting firm in Santa Barbara.

Peter Neushul (1993), Science, Technology, and the Arsenal of Democracy. Program in HSTM, Associate and Lecturer, and partner in a public history company.

Zuoyue Wang (1994), American Science and the Cold War: The Rise of the US President's Science Advisory Committee. Professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Lynne Stark (1998), The Gaia Hypothesis and the Re-animation of Nature. Professor at Santa Barbara City College.

Walter E. Grunden (1998), Science Under the Rising Sun: Weapons Development and the Organization of Scientific Research in World War II Japan. Professor at Bowling Green State University.

Lisa Zunshine (2000, Ph.D. in English), Bastards and Foundlings: Infanticide, Illegitimacy, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. Professor at University of Kentucky.

Jacob D. Hamblin (2001), Oceanography and International Cooperation during the Early Cold War. Currently teaching at California State University-Long Beach.

Richard S. Fogarty (2002), Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918. Professor at Bridgewater College, Virginia.

Peter L. McDermott (2002), Sir Henry Vane, Junior: The Formation of a Puritan Conscience. Teaching at California Lutheran University.

Traci Heitschmidt (2003), The Quest for Uranium: the Soviet Uranium Mining Industry in Eastern Germany, 1945-1967. Teaching at Corem Deo Academy, Texas.

Greg Whitesides (2004), Genes, Minds and Selves: American Science, Religion, and the Industry of Faith and Reason. Teaching at University of Colorado-Boulder and University of Colorado-Denver.

Benjamin Zulueta (2004), 'Brains at a Bargain': Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, American Science, and the 'Cold War of the Classrooms.' Teaching at California State University, Channel Islands.

Jason Kelly (2004), Polite Sociability and Levantine Archaeology in the British Enlightenment: The Society of Dilettanti, 1732-1786. Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

Brendon Larson (Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Science and Society, 2004),The Metaphoric Web of Science and Society: Case Studies from Evolutionary Biology and Invasion Biology. NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship on Biological Invasions and Society.

Evan Widders (2005), Science, Medicine, and Criollo Culture in late-Colonial New Spain. Teaching at University of West Virginia.

Robert Geraci (2005, Ph.D. in Religious Studies), The Cultural History of Religions and the Ethics of Progress: Building the Human in 20th Century Religion, Science and Art. Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College.


 

 

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