Richard H. Beyler

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

Drop-in office hours fall term:
Th 14:00-15:30
Otherwise by appointment

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

Click here for information on the interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in History and Philosophy of Science

Courses AY 2008-09


Fall 2008

HST 495/595. Empires of Knowledge (Comp. World Hist.) TuTh 10-11:50

UNST 251. 19th-Century Studies TuTh 12:30-13:45
 Winter 2009 (tentative)

HST 427/527. The Einsteinian Revoluion [TuTh 12-13:50]
 Spring 2009 (tentative)

HST 387. History of Modern Science [day/time TBA]

HST 407/507. European Culture and Politics between the World Wars (Seminar) [day/time TBA]


Information on Previous Courses

HST 300. The Historical Imagination [Summer 2008]
HST 387. History of Modern Science [Fall 2007]

HST 427/527. Topics in History of Science:
Darwin and Darwinism [Winter 2008]
The Einsteinian Revolution [Fall 2005]
Images of Nature and Systems of Belief [Winter 2003]
Science Fictions [Winter 2007]
Science under Nazism [Summer 2008]
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]

HST 458/558. History of Modern Germany [Spring 2008]
HST 460. European Intellectual History [Fall 2007]

UNST 101N-103N. Human / Nature (Freshman Inquiry) [AY 1999-2000]
UNST 256. Culture of the Professions (Sophomore Inquiry) [Winter 2003]

Links

History of science research & reference resources

PSU home page

PSU History Department home page

PSU University Studies Program home page

 

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 September 2008