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Ronald E. Doel

Year hired:
1997, Joint appointment with Department of History
Specialty:
Reconstructing Historical Landscapes
Research interests:
History and policy of twentieth century environmental sciences
Selected Recent Publications:

Doel, Ronald E. and Thomas Söderqvist, eds., The Historiography of Recent Science, Medicine, and Technology: Writing Recent Science (London: Routledge, 2006).

Doel, Ronald E. and Kristine C. Harper, 2006. "Prometheus Unleashed: Science as a Diplomatic Weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration." Osiris 21, pp. 66-85.

Doel, Ronald E., Dieter Hoffmann, and Nikolai Krementsov, 2005. "National States and International Science: A Comparative History of International Science Congresses in Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, "Osiris 20, pp. 49-76.

Doel, Ronald E., 2003. "Constituting the Postwar Earth Sciences: The Military's Influence on the Environmental Sciences in the USA After 1945." Social Studies of Science 33, 5, pp. 635-666.

Oreskes, Naomi and Ronald E. Doel, 2002. "Physics and Chemistry of the Earth." In Mary Jo Nye, editor, The Cambridge History of Science Vol. 5: Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 538-552.

Doel, Ronald E., 1996, Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Research 1920-1960, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Recent Graduate Student Titles [Geosciences]:

Monika Z. Moore, "Hazards of inequality: comparing two neighborhoods in San Francisco in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake" (MS thesis, defended January 2007)

Isaac Daniel, "Historical Alterations to the Columbia River Gorge as a Result of Transportation Infrastructure, 1850-1900" (MA thesis, defended June 2005)

Dianna Smith, “Food Deserts in the Willamette? A Study of Food Access in Lane County, Oregon” (MA thesis, defended Oct. 2003)

Courses taught:

GEO 311 Topics: Environmental Policy in 20th Century America (3 cr)
GEO 422/522 Reconstructing Historical Landscapes (3 cr)
GEO 515  History and Philosophy of Geography [starting Fall 2007] (3 cr)
GEO 599 Research Methods: Oral History (2-3 cr.)
HST 100 Freshman & Sophomore Orientation (1 cr)
HST 200 Introduction to Historical Studies (2 cr)
HST 400 Senior ProSeminar (1 cr)
HST 407 Departmental Capstone Seminar [Cold War Diplomatic History] (4 cr)
HSTS 407 Topics: History of the Environmental Sciences (3 cr)
HSTS 412 / 512 The Scientific Revolution (3 cr)
HSTS 414 / 514 History of 20th Century Science (3 cr)
HSTS 421 / 521 Technology and Change (3 cr)
HSTS 507 Materials & Methods (2-3 cr)
HSTS 599 Historiography: Approaches to the History of the Earth Sciences (3 cr.)

Degrees:
PhD in History, Princeton University, 1990
M.A. in American Studies, Bowling Green State University, 1983
B.A. in English (Astronomy Minor), Northwestern University, 1978
Office:
Milam 306
Email:
doelr<at>geo.oregonstate.edu
Prof. Doel chairs the History of Geophysics Committee of the American Geophysical Union. He is also Project Leader of "Colony, Empire, Environment: A Comparative International History of Twentieth Century Arctic Science" (Boreas initiative, European Science Foundation)

 

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