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Roger Eardley-Pryor

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Fall 2009 Office Hours
Wednesday, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, and Friday 10:30 - 11:30 am, located in HSSB 3221, and by appt.

History of Science/United States History


Graduate Student
B.A., Miami University; M.A. UC Santa Barbara

Office: HSSB 3221 Fall 2009 Hours: W 2:30-3:30 pm; F 10:30-11:30 am
Email: pryorrw@umail.ucsb.edu
Advisor: Patrick McCray

My dissertation examines the rise of global environmentalism in the late 1960s and early 1970s through the United States’ international environmental diplomacy at the world’s first scientific and political conferences on the environment. In light of the Cold War and the evolution of some scientists' activism on environmental concerns, I explore how the global battle for hearts, minds, and natural resources in the Third World influenced and was influenced by the world’s initial inter-governmental conferences.

Teaching Fields

  • Cold War Science and Scientists as Advisors
  • U.S. History
  • World History & World Environmental History
  • American Environmental History

Teaching Assistantships

  • Fall 2009 & 2008: The American People, 1492 to 1820, Dept. of History, Prof. Ann Plane
    An examination of the people and societies of early America, from the 1500s to the 1820s, using a particular focus on individual lives as a means to understanding the ways that historical changes occur.
  • Spring 2009: The American People: WWI to the Present, Dept. of History, Prof. Salim Yaqub
    A survey on twentieth century American politics, cultural development, social conflict, economic life, foreign policy, and influential ideas.
  • Winter 2009: Contested Visions of American Liberty, 1840 to 1920, Dept. of History, Prof. John Majewski
    An analysis of the complexity and changing meanings of American identity in the 19th and early 20th centuries with a focus economic change over time, as well as issues of race, class, and gender.
  • Summer 2008: Reader for California History, Dept. of History, Prof. Greg Graves
    A survey of the history of California, from the Native American era through contemporary times.
  • Fall 2007: American Colonial Era Race and Law, Asian American Studies & Law and Society Program, Prof. John S.W. Park
    an upperdivision, crosslisted course on north american race and law through the lens of immigration, examining how the developing legal culture of white north americans helped define their interactions with racial others.
  • Spring & Winter 2007: Law and Politics, Law and Society Program, Prof. Jacqueline Stevens
    A course on foundational issues at the intersection of contemporary law and politics, including the theoretical development of the social contract, the meanings of sovereignty, and the humanist concept of individual rights.
  • Fall 2006: “Law and Society,” Law and Society Program, Department Chair and Professor Lisa Hajjar
    An analysis of key concepts, themes and theoretical paradigms that influence and define the interdisciplinary field of Law and Society, with a particular focus on how social identities, relations and ideologies are shaped by law.
  • Fall 2005: Reader for Recent United States History, 1929 to 1963, Dept. of History, Prof. Lisa Jacobson
    A course on the political, social, and cultural history of the United States during the Great Depression, World War II, and the beginnings of the Cold War era.

Research Experience

  • June 2008: The Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (SICAR)
    SICAR is a five-day seminar at at George Washington Univeristy's Elliot School of International Affairs where Ph.D. students receive training in conducting archival research from top researchers and archivists in the Washington D.C. area.
  • Summer 2008: Research Assistant for Prof. W. Patrick McCray
    Conducted research for McCray's current book project on systems analysis, the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth Report, K.Eric Drexler and nanotechnology, and the ecological science of Biosphere 2.
  • Winter/Spring 2006: Research Assistant for Prof. Lisa Jacobson
    Conducted research for Jacobson’s edited book project, Children and Consumer Culture in American Society: A Historical Handbook and Guide (Greenwood Press: Westport, CT, 2007); http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR3140.aspx

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