Gregg Herken
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]
- —— (12 February 1981). The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War 1945-1950 (1st ed.). Knopf. ASIN B094FHYMZM. ISBN 978-0394503943. LCCN 80007643. OCLC 1154559530. OL 4094849M. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)[6] - —— (12 March 1985). Counsels of War (1st ed.). Knopf. ASIN B00SPVZAKQ. ISBN 978-0394527352. LCCN 84047876. OCLC 470805690. OL 2868891M. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)[7] - —— (9 April 1992). Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. ASIN B000OK26CG. ISBN 978-0195072105. LCCN 91030281. OCLC 243726684. OL 1550563M. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - —— (9 September 2002). Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller (1st ed.). Henry Holt and Company. ASIN B00E70ZXS8. ISBN 978-0-80-506588-6. LCCN 2002017219. OCLC 890256840. OL 7932650M. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - —— (28 October 2014). The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (1st ed.). Knopf. ASIN B00K4C3QOQ. ISBN 978-0307271181. LCCN 2013047033. OCLC 917334657. OL 27170115M. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Internet Archive.
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References
- "GREGG HERKEN". University of California, Merced. n.d. Archived from the original on 11 September 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- Peggy Townsend, "Gregg Herken: Unraveling history's mysteries", UC Santa Cruz, April 2, 2012
- James Leonard, "History Professor Gregg Herken Creates Intriguing Courses Based on Scholarly Research", UC Merced, January 22, 2004
- "Richard Ravalli, Ph.D." William Jessup University. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
- "Trevor and Katherine Albertson Create New Fellowship to Support History Graduate Students | Newsroom". news.ucmerced.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
- 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.