Richard H. Beyler

Professor and Graduate Studies Coordinator History Department Portland State University Tel.: 503.725.3996 Fax: 503.725.3953 E-mail: r[dot]beyler[at]pdx[dot]edu Drop-in office hours, spring term:  Tue. 12:00-14:00 (no appointment necessary, first-come first-served) 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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Information on the interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in History and Philosophy of Science

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Courses Academic Year 2012-13

Fall 2012 HST 387U. History of Modern Science - TuTh 10:00-11:50 HST 405P/505P.  Reading Colloquium in History of Science - W 17:30-21:10

Winter 2013 HST 460/560. History of the Social Sciences (Top. Eur. Intell. Hist.) - TuTh 10:00-11:50   HST 407P/507P. Science, Ideology, and the State in the 20th Century (Seminar) - W 17:30-21:10

Spring 2013 HST 427/527. Science Fictions (Top. Hist. Sci.) - Tu 17:30-21:00 HST 495/595. Empires of Knowledge (Comp. World Hist.) - TuTh 10:00-11:50

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Information on Previous Courses

HST 300. The Historical Imagination [Winter 2012] HST 407/507. Seminar: European Culture and Politics, 1918-39 [Fall 2010] HST 427/527. Topics in History of Science: Darwin and Darwinism [Spring 2012] The Einsteinian Revolution [Fall 2011] Images of Nature and Systems of Belief [Winter 2003] Science and Nazism [Spring 2011] Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment [Winter 2011]

HST 458/558. Modern Germany [Spring 2012] UNST 101N-103N. Human / Nature (Freshman Inquiry) [AY 1999-2000] UNST 236A. Revolution and Evolution in the Long 19th Century (Sophomore Inquiry: Interpreting the Past) [Winter 2012] UNST 256. Culture of the Professions (Sophomore Inquiry) [Winter 2003]

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Links

History of science research & reference resources
PSU home page
PSU History Department home page
PSU University Studies Program home page

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Curriculum vitae 2010-present, Professor of History, PSU 2010-present, Faculty Senator, PSU 2008-10, Chair, Graduate Council, PSU 2004-2010, 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

last updated April 2013