Richard H. Beyler

Professor and Graduate Coordinator History Department Tel.: 503-725-3996 Fax: 503-725-3953 E-mail: r[dot]beyler[at]pdx[dot]edu Mailing address: History Department Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 History office street address: Cramer Hall 441-O 1721 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97201 Summer term office hours by appointment only

Secretary to the Faculty Tel.: 503-725-4416 E-mail: secretary[at]pdx[dot]edu Mailing address: Secretary to the Faculty - OAA Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 Secretary to the Faculty office street address: Market Center Building 650 1600 SW 4th Ave. Portland, OR 97201

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Information on the interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in History and Philosophy of Science

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Repertoire of courses

HST 297/497. History through Film: Dangerous Knowledge HST 300. The Historical Imagination HST 387U. History of Modern Science HST 427/527. Topics in History of Science:  Darwin and Darwinism The Einsteinian Revolution Images of Nature and Systems of Belief Science and Nazism  Science Fictions Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

HST 460/560. History of the Human Sciences (Top. Eur. Intell. Hist.) HST 491-92/591-92. Reading Colloquim-Seminar sequences: European Culture and Politics, 1918-39  Science, Ideology, and the State in the 20th C.  HST 490/590. Empires of Knowledge (Comp. World Hist.) UNST 101N-103N. Human / Nature (Freshman Inquiry) UNST 139A. Globalization (Freshman inquiry) UNST 236. Interpreting the Past: Revolution and Evolution in the 19th C. (Sophomore Inquiry) UNST 256. Culture of the Professions (Sophomore Inquiry)

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Links

History of science research & reference resources

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Secretary to the Faculty

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Curriculum vitae 2015-present, Secretary to the Faculty, PSU 2010-present, Professor of History, PSU 2010-13, Faculty Senator, PSU 2008-10, Chair, Graduate Council, PSU 2004-10, Associate Professor of History, PSU 2002, Visiting Research Scholar, Commission for the History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialist Era, Berlin 1996-2004, Assistant Professor of History, PSU 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)

Teaching fields History of science European intellectual history 19th- and 20th-century German history Comparative world history Research fields Scientific institutions in Weimar, National Socialist, and post-World War II Germany Biophysics in the early 20th century Cultural relations of modern physics Historiography of science (history of history of science as an academic pursuit)

Last updated  July  2017