Joshua Nicholas McGuffie

PhD Candidate

University of California; Los Angeles

Department of History

6265 Bunche Hall

Los Angeles, CA 90095

naturesciencehistory.com

Education

University of California; Los Angeles2015 – Present

History Department

  • PhD, History
  • Advisor: Soraya de Chadarevian

Oregon State University2013 – 2015

School of History, Philosophy, and Religion

  • MA, History of Science, Minor in History
  • Advisor: Jacob Hamblin

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary 2002 – 2006

  • Master of Divinity

University of California; Los Angeles1999 – 2002

Department of Geography

  • B.A. in Geography, Magna Cum Laude

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • UCLA Special Collections James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship, 2015
  • Oregon State University Library Special Collections and Archives Research Center Resident Scholar, 2014
  • Steven Straker Graduate Student Fund, Columbia History of Science Group, 2014
  • Bachmann Award for History, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, 2006
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in American Fund for Leaders in Mission Full-Tuition Scholarship, 2002-2006
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 2002

Papers and Presentations

“No Significant Risk: Creating the Norms for Public Irradiation at Hanford”

  • Oregon State University Environmental Arts and Humanities Research Conference

May 2015

“No Significant Risk: Creating the Norms for Public Irradiation at Hanford”

  • UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society “Faking It: Counterfeits, Copies, and Uncertain Truths in Science, Technology and Medicine”

April 2015

“A Landscape up for Grabs: How Hanford's Environmental Scientists Recreated Nature at the United State's most Polluted Place”

  • OSU Library Resident Scholar Presentation, Corvallis, OR October 2014

“Hanford Reach: Ironic Preservation or the Same Old Mission?”

  • Columbia History of Science Group, Friday Harbor, WAMarch 2014

Professional Experience

UCLA

Graduate Student Researcher

  • Assisting Dr. Stephen Aron, Department ChairSpring 2016

Reader

  • “History of Los Angeles” Winter 2016
  • “History of Medicine in the 20th Century” Fall 2015

Oregon State University

Graduate Research Assistant

  • OSU Environmental Arts and Humanities InitiativeFall 2014

Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • “Technology and Change”Spring 2015
  • “Environmental History” Winter 2015
  • “The Holocaust in its History” Spring 2014
  • “Why War: A Historical Perspective”Winter 2014
  • “History of Western Civilization” Fall 2013

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Teaching Assistant

  • “Word and Sacrament” Spring 2002

Internships

Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center

  • “Dear Professor Einstein” Digital Humanities Project Spring 2014

Teaching Interests

Twentieth century history of science; Nineteenth and twentieth century American environmental history; History of the US West; History of science and religion

References available upon request