AMERICAN UNIVERSITY College of Arts and Science Curriculum Vitae, CY 2004
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY College of Arts and Science Curriculum Vitae, CY 2004 PETER JEFFREY KUZNICK Home: 7910 Maryknoll Avenue Bethesda, Maryland 20817 (301) 320-6961 (H) (202) 885-2408 (W) EDUCATION: 1984 Ph.D. Rutgers University, "Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930's America" Advisor: Professor Warren Susman 1975 M.A. Rutgers University, History Graduate School 1970 B.A. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. History Major, Summa Cum Laude EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: 1/72 - 9/72 COPE (Career-Oriented Preparation for Employment) Federally-funded High School Program in Newark, N.J. Courses Taught: College Preparation in E.S.L. Program 9/72 - 6/75 Rutgers University Teaching Assistant: Recent U.S. History History of American Women Courses Personally Taught: Development of the U.S. American Labor History Radicalism in America (Newark Campus) 6/76 - 12/76 Arapahoe Community College (Littleton, Colorado) Courses Taught: U.S. History (Taught at Federal Correctional Institute, Englewood, Colorado) 3/77 - 12/77 Community College of Denver Courses Taught: U.S. History World History History of Democratic Thought Colorado History 1/78 - 5/78 Aims Community College (Greeley, Colorado) Courses Taught: U.S. History Recent U.S. History 8/78 - 6/82 Prince George's Community College Courses Taught: U.S. History Modern European History 8/78 - 6/83 University of Maryland College Park and University College Courses Taught: History of Ideas in America Culture and Thought in 20th Century America Recent American History U.S. History I & II History of Law and Order History of Violence in America America Between the Wars, 1919-1941 9/84 - 7/85 Smithsonian Institution-George Mason University Joint Postdoctoral Fellow Smithsonian Research Project: "Science and the Common Man in 1930's America" Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Mason University Courses Taught: 1930's American Culture Science, Technology, and Mass Culture in America, 1945-1985 9/85 - 6/86 University of Maryland Baltimore County Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies Courses Taught: Ideas and Images in American Culture Critical Decades: The 1930s Science, Technology, and Mass Culture in Twentieth Century America 9/86 - American University Assistant and Associate Professor of History Courses Taught: History of the U.S. I History of the U.S. II America's Quest for the Good Society, 1607-1865 America's Quest for the Good Society Since 1865 Social Forces that Shaped America Oliver Stones America Ideology, Culture, and American Politics Twentieth Century America The Depression Decade: 1930's America Science, Technology, and Mass Culture in 20th Century America America Between the Wars, 1919-1941 Living with the Bomb: America in the Nuclear Age American Decades: The 1930s (American Studies Course) American Culture in the Nuclear Age Contemporary Culture: Nuclear Culture Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1920 Historical Interpretations: U.S. Cold War Culture U.S. Since 1945 Major Seminar Science, Politics, and Society in 20th Century America Explorations in the History of American Sexuality Colloquium in U.S. History II Graduate Readings in the History of Science Graduate Readings in the History of American Peace Movements Graduate Readings in the History of American Sexuality Graduate Research Seminar Graduate Readings in Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theory HONORS AND AWARDS: 1970 Phi Beta Kappa Woodrow Wilson Fellow 1984 Smithsonian Institution-George Mason University Postdoctoral Fellow 1991 The American University Research Award 1992 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Award 1996 Nuclear Studies Institute awarded the Most Creative and Innovative Summer Program in North America by North American Association of Summer Sessions 2004-08 Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturer PUBLICATIONS: Books: Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America (University of Chicago Press, 1987; paperback edition, 1989). Rethinking Cold War Culture, co-edited with James Gilbert (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001) Book Chapters: "Science and the Left, 1920-1950," in Paul Buhle, ed., The Encyclopedia of the American Left (Garland Press, 1990). U.S. Culture and the Cold War, co-authored with James Gilbert in Rethinking Cold War Culture (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001) pp.1-13. James B. Conant, in Paul S. Boyer, ed., Oxford Companion to United States History (Oxford University Press, 2001) Preface to Joseph Walwik, The Peekskill, New York, Anti-Communist Riots of 1949 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) “Political conversion was the greatest aphrodisiac,” Interview on Antiwar Organizing at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Christian G. Appy, ed., The Vietnam War: An Oral History (Viking Press, 2003) The Decision to Risk the Future: Harry Truman and the Apocalyptic Narrative Forthcoming in Michael Flynn, ed., The Second Nuclear Age (Roman & Littlefield, 2005) Refereed Articles: "Losing the World of Tomorrow: The Battle Over the Presentation of Science at the 1939 New York World's Fair," American Quarterly, 46(September 1994). Unpublished Articles Submitted to Refereed Journals: Averting a disaster incomprehensible in its magnitude: The Roots of Scientists Anti-Vietnam War Activism, submitted to Configurations. “Healing More Than Just the Well-Heeled,” submitted to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine Invited Articles: He Never Lost Any Sleep: Coping With Trumans Nightmarish Nuclear Legacy, Radical History Review 75(1999), 131-147. "The Birth of Scientific Activism," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, (December, 1988). "We Can Hold an Atomic Bomb Exhibit That Faces Our Histories," Asahi Shimbun, (February 21, 1995), coauthored with Uday Mohan and Akihiko Kimijima. "Smithsonian Row is About Reconciling the Past," Asahi Evening News, (March 1, 1995), coauthored with Uday Mohan and Akihiko Kimijima. Syllabus for my course "Living with the Bomb: American Culture in the Nuclear Age," Radical History Review, 63(1995), 167-170. "Facing Our Histories," Economic and Political Weekly, (April 15, 1995), coauthored with Uday Mohan and Akihiko Kimijima. "The Painful Task of Confronting Our Nations' Histories," Yomiuri Shimbun, (August 9. 1995). American Students Responses to Visiting Hiroshima, Ritsumeikan University Peace Studies Magazine, (Spring 1998). American and Japanese Students Respond to visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Michi (The Road), Kyoto, Japan (1999), 94-100. Truman and the Bomb, Asahi Shimbun (August 5, 2000) “We Can Learn a Lot from Truman the Bigot,” Los Angeles Times (July 18, 2003) (My title was “Still Wild About Harry?”) “The 1945 Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq: Similarities and Differences,” Nagasaki Peace Studies Journal 16(November 2003), 86-92. “Whitewashing History: The Smithsonian’s New Enola Gay Exhibit,” Nagasaki Peace Studies Journal 19 (October 2004), 84-89. “Scientists on the Stump,” (Originally titled, “Unacceptable Risk: The Scientists’ Mobilization to Defeat Goldwater in 1964”), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 60(November-December 1964, 28-35. Book Reviews: Review of Joseph J. Corn, ed., Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future appeared in Science, (October 10, 1986). Review of David P. Peeler, Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, (January, 1989). Review of Greta Jones, Science, Politics, and the Cold War, ISIS (1990). Review of Marshall Hyatt, Franz Boas, Social Activist, Science and Society (1992). Review of Jack S. Goldstein, A Different Sort of Time: The Life of Jerrold R. Zacharias, Scientist, Engineer, Educator, Journal of American History (June, 1993). Review of Mark Pittenger, American Socialists and Evolutionary Theory, ISIS, (1994). Review of Stuart Leslie, The Cold War and American Science, Science and Society, (Summer, 1995). Review of Steven Neuse, David E. Lilienthal, ISIS, (1999) Review of Patrick J. McGrath, Scientists, Business, & the State, 1890-1960, Journal of American History, (March 2003) Review of Kenneth D. Rose, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, The Historian, (2003) Review of J. Samuel Walker, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, History: Reviews of New Books, (Fall 2004) Unpublished Research: Lost Cause, Screenplay on the Cold War written for Oliver Stone. "Healing the Well-Heeled: The Committee of Physicians and the Fight for a National Health Program in 1930s America," will be submitted to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Preliminary work on forthcoming book on Science, Scientists, and the War in Vietnam. LECTURES: Professional Meetings: 12/84 History of Science Society "Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930's America" 4/85 Organization of American Historians "The Mystification and Commodification of Science at the 1939 New York World's Fair" 4/86 Organization of American Historians "Warren Susman, Teacher" 2/91 American Association for the Advancement of Science "The AAAS and the `Science and Society' Movement in 1930s America" 3/94 Third International Meeting on the Public Communication of Science and Technology (Montreal) "Public Communication of Science in the Vietnam War 10/94 History of Science Society "The Ethical and Political Crisis of Science: The AAAS Confronts the War in Vietnam" 2/98 American Association for the Advancement of Science Opting for Life? The AAAS and the War in Vietnam 11/01 Society for the