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 |at| pdx |dot| edu Drop-in office hours (fall 2009) TuTh 11:00-12:00 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

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Courses AY 2009-10

Fall 2009 HST 387U. History of Modern Science TuTh 12:00-13:50 HST 460/560. History of the Human Sciences (Top. Eur. Intell. Hist.) MW 14:00-15:50

Winter 2010 HST 300. The Historical Imagination TuTh 12:00-13:50 HST 458/558. Modern Germany  M 17:30-19:00

Spring 2010 (tentative-subject to change) HST 427/527. Science Fictions (Top. Hist. Sci.) HST 495/595. Comparative World History

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Previous courses

HST 300. The Historical Imagination [Summer 2008] HST 427/527. Topics in History of Science: Darwin and Darwinism [Winter 2008] The Einsteinian Revoluion [Winter 2009] 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: European Culture and Politics between the World Wars [Spring 2005] Science, Ideology, and the State in the 20th C. (Seminar) [Spring 2009] HST 458/558. History of Modern Germany [Spring 2008] HST 460/560 European Intellectual History [Fall 2007] HST 495/595. Empires of Knowledge (Comp. World Hist.) [Summer 2009] UNST 101N-103N. Human / Nature (Freshman Inquiry) [AY 1999-2000] UNST 256. Culture of the Professions (Sophomore Inquiry) [Winter 2003]

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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 November 2009