Peter J. Westwick

15 October 2014 Peter J. Westwick 1381 Wyant Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D., History, 1999, University of California at Berkeley M.A., History, 1994, University of California at Berkeley B.A., Physics, 1989, University of California at Berkeley

CURRENT AFFILIATION Assistant Professor (Research), Department of History, University of Southern California, and Director, Aerospace History Project, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, 2009-.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in the History of Science, Caltech, 2013-2014. Huntington Fellow, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, 2008-2009. Research Affiliate in History, UC Santa Barbara, 2006-2008. Olin Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2005-2006. Senior Research Fellow in Humanities, Caltech, 2000-2004.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies program, two-year grant for archive on Southern California aerospace, Huntington Library and USC, 2010-2012. National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies program, two-year grant as independent scholar for history of Strategic Defense Initiative, 2006-2008. Mellon Foundation, Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, 1998-1999. Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, conference grant for “Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative Perspectives,” Berkeley, January 1998. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Grant, 1997. Sather Fellowship, Department of History, UC Berkeley, 1996-97. Humanities Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 1996. Mellon Foundation, Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship, 1995. Peter J. Westwick 2 WORK IN PROGRESS A History of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-2013, in collaboration with Daniel J. Kevles and Ruth Schwartz Cowan. Technology, Politics, and Star Wars: The Strategic Defense Initiative in the U.S. and the Soviet Response.

PUBLICATIONS Books and edited volumes The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing, co-authored with Peter Neushul (Random House, 2013). A Los Angeles Times bestseller. Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (University of California Press/Huntington Library Press, 2012), editor. Selected to “Best Non-Fiction of 2012” by the Los Angeles Public Library. Into the Black: JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004 (Yale University Press, 2007). Awarded Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society. Awarded Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974 (Harvard University Press, 2003). Awarded 2004 Book Prize, Forum for the History of Science in America. Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative Perspectives (co-editor with Cathryn Carson, Ethan Pollock, and James H. Williams), special double issue of Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 30:1 (2000).

Articles and chapters “From the Club of Rome to Star Wars: The Era of Limits, Space Colonization, and the Origins of SDI,” in Alexander Geppert, ed., Post-Apollo: Outer Space and the Limits of Utopia (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2014). “ Reconciling National Security and Scientific Internationalism,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (Supp. 2) (24 June 2014), 9327-9364. “ Technology” photoessay for “Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990,” William Deverell and Greg Hise, curators, for the Getty Center’s “Pacific Standard Time Project: Modern Architecture in L.A.” (launched April 2013 at http://pstp-edison.com/). “ The Sky is Falling, Again: The Sequester and the Booms and Busts of Aerospace,” Zocalo Public Square, published 29 March 2013. “ Aerospace and Surfing: Connecting Two California Keynotes” (co-authored with Peter Neushul), in Volker Janssen, ed., Where Minds and Matters Meet: Technology in California and the West (University of California Press, 2012). “ Visual Images in Solar System Exploration,” in Roger Launius, ed., Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of Planetary Exploration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Peter J. Westwick 3 “ Aerospace and Hollywood: How Computer Animation Went from Space to Cineplex,” in Westwick, ed., Blue Sky Metropolis. “Revenge of the Nerds: How Aerospace Geeks Taught Southern California to Have Fun” (co- authored with Matthew Hersch), Zocalo Public Square, published 16 October 2011. “The International History of the Strategic Defense Initiative: American Influence and Economic Competition in the Late Cold War,” Centaurus (fall 2010). “ Taking Flight: The Launch of the Huntington’s Aerospace History Project,” Huntington Frontiers (cover story, spring 2010). “The End of the Aerospace Century” (co-authored with William Deverell and Daniel Lewis), LA Observed guest editorial, 7 Jan 2010. “ ‘ Space-Strike Weapons’ and the Soviet Response to SDI,” Diplomatic History, 32:5 (Nov 2008), 955-979. “The Strategic Offense Initiative? The Soviets and Star Wars,” Physics Today (June 2008), 43- 49. Reprinted in Pierce S. Corden, David Hafemeister, and Peter Zimmerman, eds., Nuclear Weapon Issues in the 21st Century, AIP Conference Proceedings vol. 1596 (Melville, NY, 2014), 143-151. “JPL and Southern California,” in Societal Impact of Spaceflight, Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, eds. (Washington DC, 2007). “ Reengineering Engineers: Management Philosophies at JPL in the 1990s,” Technology and Culture, 48:1 (2007), 67-91. Primary contributor (twenty-six articles), Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, J.L. Heilbron, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2003). “Ernest O. Lawrence,” a detailed biographical website sponsored by the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics (launched 2002 at http://www.aip.org/history/lawrence). “Secret Science: A Classified Community in the National Laboratories,” Minerva, 35:4 (2000), 363-391. “ In the Beginning: The Origin of Nuclear Secrecy,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, special issue on secrecy (Nov/Dec 2000), 43-49. “Bubble Chamber,” in Robert Bud and Deborah Jean Warner, eds., Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia (London, 1998), 98-100. “ Abraded from Several Corners: Medical Physics and Biophysics at Berkeley,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 27:1 (1996), 131-162. Twenty book reviews, 1996-present, in American Scientist; Isis; Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences; and British Journal for the History of Science.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE “America in the Cold War World,” University of Southern California, 2014. Upper-division history seminar.

Peter J. Westwick 4 “The Aerospace Century in California,” Caltech, 2014. Upper-division history seminar. “The Cold War,” Caltech, 2014. Upper-division history seminar. “America in the Atomic Age,” University of Southern California, 2012, 2009. Upper-division seminar in U.S. history. “History of Surfing,” UC Santa Barbara, 2009, 2008. Upper-division lecture course in history and environmental studies. “History of Modern Physical Science,” UC Santa Barbara, 2008, 2007. Upper-division lecture course in history. Senior essay advisor, History Department, Yale University, 2005-2006. Directed two undergraduate senior theses, one of which (on nuclear proliferation) earned the department’s Percival Wood Clement Prize for best essay in American studies, including history. “Science, Arms, and the State,” Yale University, 2006. Graduate seminar in international relations, focusing on weapons of mass destruction in the 20th century. “The Nuclear and Space Age,” Yale University, 2005. Upper-division seminar in international studies. “Introduction to Science, Ethics, and Society,” Caltech, 2002, 2001, 2000. Lower-division survey of the history of science from antiquity to the present. Graduate student instructor, “America in the Atomic Age,” UC Berkeley, 1998. Upper-division seminar in U.S. history. Graduate student instructor, “Science since 1789,” Prof. J.E. Lesch, UC Berkeley, 1996. Led discussion sections, graded exams and papers, gave four lectures on the history of 19th and 20th century physics for lower-division survey. Reader, “The United States since 1940,” Prof. Richard Abrams, UC Berkeley, 1995. Graded exams and papers in upper-division U.S. history course. Reader, “Physics, Industry, and War, 1815-1989,” Dr. Alexi Assmus, UC Berkeley, 1995, 1994. Graded exams and papers in upper-division history of science course. Gave three lectures on physics circa 1900, atomic structure, and quantum theory.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS “ Serving the State and Science: The National Academy of Sciences in the Vietnam Era,” presented to History of Science Society, Boston, November 2013. “The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing,” Dibner Lecture in the History of Science, Huntington Library, October 2013. “ National Security and International Relations,” speaker and panel moderator, Sackler Colloquium on “The National Academy of Sciences at 150,” National Academy of Sciences, October 2013. Peter J. Westwick 5 “Aerospace, California, and the World,” talk for conference on “In-n-Out California: Circulating Things and the Globalization of the West Coast,” UC Berkeley, September 2013. “ What’s in a Name? The National Academy of Sciences after 150 Years,” invited talk for “Distinctive Voices” series, National Academy of Sciences, Beckman Center, April 2013. “Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Midcourse Discrimination and SDI,” presented to History of Science Society, San Diego, November 2012. “ Planetary Exploration: Who Has Done It, How They Did It, and Why,” keynote lecture for “Solar System Exploration @ 50,” National Air & Space Museum/NASA, October 2012. “From the Club of Rome to Star Wars: The Era of Limits, Space Colonization, and the Origins of SDI,” conference on “Envisioning Limits: Outer Space and the End of Utopia,” Freie Universität, Berlin, April 2012. “Conducting Space Science, Technology, and Engineering,” commentator for panel at Society for History of Technology annual meeting, November 2011. “ The Cold War and U.S. History” and “Cold War California,” invited lectures for “Teaching American History” summer institute, Huntington Library, summer 2011. “ Nuclear Weapons,” commentator for panel at UCSB/GWU/LSE conference on Cold War history, UCSB, April 2011. “ Blowing Foam and Blowing Minds: Better Surfing Through Chemistry,” invited paper for conference on “Groovy Science,” Princeton University, February 2011. “Blue Sky Metropolis: Documenting the Aerospace Century in Southern California,” invited talk to Aero Club of Southern California, Flight Path Museum, September 2010. “The Two Cultures: Science and the Military in the Cold War,” invited panelist on “Technology, Warfare, and Diplomatic History,” Yale University, October 2009. “ Aerospace and the Wired West,” commentator for panel at Western History Association, Denver, October 2009. “Documenting the History of Southern California Aerospace,” presented to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Pasadena, CA, August 2009. “Aerospace Meets Hollywood: JPL and the Emergence of Computer Animation,” presented to “Rocket Science and Region: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Aerospace Industry in Southern California,” Huntington Library, August 2007. “ The Strategic Offense Initiative? ‘Space-Strike Weapons’ and the Soviet Response to SDI,” Colloquium in International History and Security, Yale University, March 2006. “The Atomic Bomb and the Cold War” and “The Space Race,” invited lectures for “Teaching American History” summer institute, Compton Unified School District, June 2005. “ Remobilizing for Defense in the 1980s: The Case of the Jet Propulsion Lab,” presented to History of Science Society, Austin, November 2004. “Science, Civilians, and the Military in the Early Atomic Age,” invited paper for conference on “Atomic Sciences,” Princeton University, November 2004. Peter J. Westwick 6 “ UC and the National Labs,” invited paper for “All-UC Conference on University History,” University of California at Berkeley, April 2002. “ Business Management Philosophies and JPL in the 1990s,” presented to History of Science Society, Denver, November 2001. “ Secret Science: A Classified Community and the National Labs,” presented to History of Science Society, Kansas City, October 1998. “ National Labs and National Goals,” presented at conference on “Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative Perspectives,” University of California at Berkeley, January 1998. “ Medical Physics and Biophysics at Berkeley: The Institutional Situation of an Emerging Discipline,” presented to History of Science Society, Minneapolis, October 1995.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Consultant, National Academy of Sciences, Sesquicentennial History Project, 2011-present. Member, Organizing Committee, Sackler Colloquium, National Academy of Sciences, 2013. Co-curator (with Matthew Hersch), “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California,” exhibit of historic documents, photographs, and artifacts in West Hall, The Huntington Library, October 2011 to January 2012 (seen by approximately 25,000 visitors). Conference co-organizer, “Science and Technology in Postwar Southern California,” Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and USC Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Huntington Library, March 2011. Member, History Committee, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009-2011. Consultant, Superconducting Super Collider History Project, funded by National Science Foundation, 2008-2009. Conference co-organizer, “Rocket Science and Region: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Aerospace Industry in Southern California,” Huntington Library, August 2007. Co-director, Working Group on Science and Technology, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, 2004-2007. Editor, ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, CA, 2004-2005. Submissions editor for publisher of history textbooks. Member, Program Review Committee, Archives and History Office, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2002-2005. Assistant editor, 1993-1999, and book review editor, 1996-2000, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, History of Science and Technology Program, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 1998-1999. Conference co-organizer, “Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative Perspectives,” UC Berkeley, January 1998. Associate Scientist, Kaman Sciences Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA, 1992-1993. Peter J. Westwick 7 Wrote and edited technical reports using resources of the Department of Defense Nuclear Information Analysis Center (DASIAC), a classified archive of material on nuclear weapons tests.