American historian and museum curator
Gregg Herken is an American historian and museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of modern American diplomatic History at the University of California, Santa Cruz & Merced , whose scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and the Cold War .[ 1]
Biography
In 1969, Herken received a B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz .[ 2] Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University .[ 3]
Herken held teaching positions at California State University, San Luis Obispo , Oberlin College , Yale University , and California Institute of Technology , and was a Fulbright-Hays senior research scholar at Lund University .[ 2] [ 3] Smithsonian Institution 's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. [ 2] Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments during 1994–95.[ 3]
Works
In 2003, Herken's book Brotherhood of the Bomb , for which he received a MacArthur Grant to write, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history.[ 2]
References
^ "GREGG HERKEN" . University of California, Merced Archived from the original on 10 September 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021 .^ a b c d Peggy Townsend, "Gregg Herken: Unraveling history's mysteries" , UC Santa Cruz, April 2, 2012
^ a b c James Leonard, "History Professor Gregg Herken Creates Intriguing Courses Based on Scholarly Research" , UC Merced, January 22, 2004
^ Hewlett, Richard G. (1981). "Reviewed work: The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950 by Gregg Herken". The Journal of American History . 68 (3): 731. doi :10.2307/1902038 . JSTOR 1902038 .^ Greb, G. Allen (1986). "Review of Counsels of War by Gregg Herken". Science . 231 (4737): 504–505. doi :10.1126/science.231.4737.504 . PMID 17776027 . p. 505 ^ Yardley, Jonathan (November 7, 2014). "Book Review: The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington by Gregg Herken" . The Washington Post .
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