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Lecturer
Office: HSSB 4231 Hours:
Phone: (805) 893-2720 Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: westwick@history.ucsb.edu
Research and Teaching Interests- History of modern science and technology
History of modern physical science, and science and technology in the U.S.
- International relations and national security
Science and technology in international security.
- The Cold War
- History of surfing
I will co-teach (with Peter Neushul) a new course on history of surfing in spring 2008, including cultural, political, economic, technological, and environmental viewpoints and contexts.
Current Projects- Technology, Politics, and Star Wars: The Strategic Defense Initiative in the U.S. and the Soviet Response
A book-length history of SDI, the U.S. missile-defense plan, from 1983 to 1993.
- Aerospace Industry in Southern California
An initiative to document the history of southern California aerospace, pursued in collaboration with the Huntington/USC Institute on California and the West.
Selected Publications- “‘Space-Strike Weapons’ and the Soviet Response to SDI,” Diplomatic History, 32:5 (2008)
- Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 (Yale UP, 2007)
Awarded 2006 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award by the American Astronautical Society, and the 2008 Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- “Reengineering Engineers: Management Philosophies at JPL in the 1990s,” Technology and Culture, 48:1 (2007)
- The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974 (Harvard UP, 2003)
Awarded 2004 Book Prize, Forum for the History of Science in America.
- “Secret Science: A Classified Community in the National Laboratories,” Minerva, 35:4 (2000)
- “In the Beginning: The Origin of Nuclear Secrecy,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Nov/Dec 2000)
- Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative Perspectives, special issue, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (2000)
Co-editor of special double volume of HSPS.
- “Abraded from Several Corners: Medical Physics and Biophysics at Berkeley,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 27 (1996)
Honors and Professional Activities- Huntington Fellow, Huntington/USC Institute on California and the West, 2008-present
- National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies program, grant for history of SDI, 2006-2008
- Olin Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2005-2006
- Senior Research Fellow in Humanities, Caltech, 2000-2004
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