Gregg Herken

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Gregg Herken is an American historian and museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of modern American diplomatic History at the University of California, 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] In 1974, he received a 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] During 1988–2003 he was senior historian and curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[2] He also served on the U.S. government's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments during 1994–95.[3]

Graduate Students

Herken has served as a dissertation advisor to several students, including Richard Ravalli, Trevor Albertson, and served on the dissertation committee for Tami Davis-Biddle.[4][5]

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

  1. ^ "GREGG HERKEN". University of California, Merced. n.d. Archived from the original on 11 September 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Peggy Townsend, "Gregg Herken: Unraveling history's mysteries", UC Santa Cruz, April 2, 2012
  3. ^ a b c James Leonard, "History Professor Gregg Herken Creates Intriguing Courses Based on Scholarly Research", UC Merced, January 22, 2004
  4. ^ "Richard Ravalli, Ph.D." William Jessup University. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  5. ^ "Trevor and Katherine Albertson Create New Fellowship to Support History Graduate Students | Newsroom". news.ucmerced.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ 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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