Richard H. Beyler

Associate Professor and
Graduate Studies Coordinator

History Department
Portland State University

Tel.: 503.725.3996
Fax: 503.725.3953
E-mail: beylerr@pdx.edu

Mailing address:
History Department
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751

Office street address:
Cramer Hall 441-O
1721 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201

HST 300. The Historical Imagination [Summer 2007]

HST 427/527. Topics in History of Science:
The Einsteinian Revolution [Fall 2005]
Images of Nature and Systems of Belief [Winter 2003]
Science Fictions [Winter 2007]
Science under Nazism [Spring 2002]
Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment (formerly HST 459U/559) [Spring 2001]

HST 407/507. Seminars:
Science, Ideology, & the State in the 20th Century [Fall 2006]
European Culture and Politics between the World Wars [Spring 2005]

UNST 101N-103N. Human / Nature (Freshman Inquiry) [AY 1999-2000]
UNST 251C. 19th-Century Studies [Spring 2007]
UNST 256. Culture of the Professions (Sophomore Inquiry) [Winter 2003]

Teaching fields

• History of science
• Social relations of science
• Modern intellectual history
• 19th and 20th-century German history
  

Research interests

• Cultural relations of 20th-century physics
• Science in National Socialist and post-World War II Germany
• Biophysics (early 20th century)
• Historiography of science and modernity

Curriculum vitae

• 2004-present, Associate Professor of History, Portland State University
• 2002, Visiting Research Scholar, Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society for the History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist Era, Berlin
• 1996-2004, Assistant Professor of History, Portland State University
• 1995-96, Volkswagen Foundation Fellow, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
• 1994-95, Rathenau Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin
• 1994, Ph.D., Harvard University (history of science)
• 1987, B.A., Goshen College (history and mathematics)

Last updated June 2008