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Gregg Herken

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Gregg Herken
Herken in 2004
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)
Occupations
  • Historian
  • museum curator

Gregg Herken is an American historian and museum curator who is Professor Emeritus of modern American diplomatic History at the University of California, Santa Cruz & Merced, whose scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and the Cold War.[1]

Biography

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In 1969, Herken received a B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz.[2] In 1974, he received a Ph.D. in modern American diplomatic history from Princeton University.[3]

Herken held teaching positions at California State University, San Luis Obispo, Oberlin College, Yale University, and California Institute of Technology, and was a Fulbright-Hays senior research scholar at Lund University.[2][3] During 1988–2003 he was a senior historian and curator of military space, as well as chairman of the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[2] He also served on the U.S. government's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments during 1994–95.[3] Since 2005, Herken has been a Senior Fellow at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.

Works

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In 2003, Herken's book Brotherhood of the Bomb, for which he received a MacArthur Grant to write, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "GREGG HERKEN". University of California, Merced. n.d. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Peggy Townsend, "Gregg Herken: Unraveling history's mysteries", UC Santa Cruz, April 2, 2012
  3. ^ a b c James Leonard, "History Professor Gregg Herken Creates Intriguing Courses Based on Scholarly Research", UC Merced, January 22, 2004
  4. ^ Hewlett, Richard G. (1981). "Reviewed work: The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950 by Gregg Herken". The Journal of American History. 68 (3): 731. doi:10.2307/1902038. JSTOR 1902038.
  5. ^ Greb, G. Allen (1986). "Review of Counsels of War by Gregg Herken". Science. 231 (4737): 504–505. doi:10.1126/science.231.4737.504. PMID 17776027. p. 505
  6. ^ Yardley, Jonathan (November 7, 2014). "Book Review: The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington by Gregg Herken". The Washington Post.
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