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, winter term (first-come, first-served, no appointment necessary): TuTh 12:00-13:00 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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Information on the interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in History and Philosophy of Science

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Courses Academic Year 2011-12

Fall 2011 HST 387U. History of Modern Science - TuTh 12:00-13:50 HST 427/527. The Einsteinian Revolution (Top. Hist. Sci.) - Tu 15:30-21:10

Winter 2012 HST 300. The Historical Imagination - TuTh 10:00-11:50 UNST 236A. Interpreting the Past (Sophomore Inquiry) - MW 11:00-12:15

Spring 2012 DAYS/TIMES TBA HST 427/527. Darwin and Darwinism (Top. Hist. Sci.) HST 458/558. Modern Germany

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Previous courses

HST 407/507. Seminars: European Culture and Politics, 1918-39 [Fall 2010] Science, Ideology, and the State in the 20th C. (Seminar) [Spring 2009] HST 427/527. Topics in History of Science: Darwin and Darwinism [Winter 2008] Images of Nature and Systems of Belief [Winter 2003] Science and Nazism [Spring 2011] Science Fictions [Spring 2010] Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment [Winter 2011]

HST 458/558. Modern Germany [Winter 2010] HST 460/560. History of the Human Sciences (Top. Eur. Intell. Hist.) [Spring 2011] HST 495/595. Empires of Knowledge (Comp. World Hist.) [Summer 2011] UNST 101N-103N. Human / Nature (Freshman Inquiry) [AY 1999-2000] UNST 256. Culture of the Professions (Sophomore Inquiry) [Winter 2003]

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Links

History of science research & reference resources

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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 interests 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 January 2012