Linda Richards

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Linda Richards

History Senior Instructor I
School of History, Philosophy & Religion

Hovland Hall 102A
2700 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Curriculum Vitae
Credentials
Ph.D. in History of Science (OSU, 2014)
Masters in Management (SOU, 2007)
Research/Career Interests

Cold War and Nuclear History, Environmental Justice, Peace and War History, Feminist and Indigenous Theory, and Human Rights

Service

American Society for Environmental History Diversity Committee

OSU Holocaust Committee

OSU Martin Luther King Jr Committee, 2013-14 academic year

Proceedings and Conference Presentations

See CV

Professional Affiliations

History of Science Society

American Society for Environmental History

Veterans for Peace

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Courses Taught

HSTS 419 STUDIES IN SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSY: METHODS AND PRACTICES

HSTS 414/514 HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCIENCE

HST 317 WHY WAR?

HST 481 ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE US

HSTS 422 POLITICS AND SCIENCE

HSTS 499 SPECIAL TOPIC: FISSION FUSION PSYCHOSIS

HSTS 417 HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Additional Information

A few of my publications are:

“On Poisoned Ground” Chemical Heritage Magazine 31, no.1 (Spring 2013) 32-38. http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/media/magazine/articles/31-1-on-poisoned-ground.aspx

“Fallout Suits and Human Rights: Disrupting the Technocratic Narrative” Peace and Change Journal of Peace History 38, no.1 (January 2013): 56-82 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pech.12003/pdf

My dissertation "Rocks and Reactors: An Atomic Interpretation of Human Rights" is available at OSU Scholar's Archive: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/48695