Curriculum Vitae
LINDA MARIE RICHARDS
PhD (ABD) in History of Science, minor in History
Department of History
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330 USA
Email: richarli@onid.orst.edu
EDUCATION
M.A. in Management, Nonprofit Track, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, 2007: Thesis
“Southern Oregon University and Veteran’s Access to Education Project Plan”
Post baccalaureate work and coursework in Masters in Teaching Special Education, Southern
Oregon University, 1997
Completed coursework in Masters in Environmental Education, Southern Oregon University,
1994
B.Sc. in Science/Math, first Peace Studies Minor at Southern Oregon University, President’s and
Dean’s Lists, 1991
Undergraduate coursework in biology, University of Oregon, 1981-85
RESEARCH
Dissertation
 Rocks and Reactors: The Origins of Radiation Exposure Disparity, 1941-1979
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
2012-2013: National Science Foundation Science, Technology, and Society Dissertation
Improvement Grant Recipient
2010-2011: Oregon University System Laurels Scholarship Recipient, Doan Fellowship from the
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Scholar in Residence Oregon State University Ava Helen and
Linus Pauling Special Collections
2009-2010: Oregon University System Tokyo Foundation Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders
Fellowship for International Research
2008: “Peacemaker of the Year Award” for twenty years of public nuclear history education,
including facilitation of the annual Hiroshima Nagasaki commemoration, by nonprofit Peace
House, Ashland, Oregon
2007: Outstanding Citizenship Award, presented with a flag flown over the U.S. Capital, by U.S.
House Oregon Representative Greg Walden for collaborative work with Military Sciences at
SOU to increase access to education for veterans
2007: SOU Outstanding Universidad de Guanajuato Graduate Student Award, SOU Outstanding
Nonprofit Student, Recipient of Oregon Lottery Scholarship
2006: Women’s History Month Leadership Appreciation Award, Southern Oregon
University and Women’s Resource Center
1986: Certificate of Appreciation Award, New Brunswick County Commissioners, NC
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PUBLICATIONS
1. “On Poisoned Ground” Chemical Heritage Magazine 31, no.1 (Spring 2013) 32-38.
2. “Fallout Suits and Human Rights: Disrupting the Technocratic Narrative” Peace and Change
Journal of Peace History 38, no.1 (January 2013): 56-82.
3. Co-authored with Perry H. Charley, “Nuclear Environmental Justice in Arizona and Beyond,
Part 2” Voices from the Sylff Community (January 2013):10-4.
4. Review of Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West by John M. Findlay and
Bruce Hevly in Environmental History 17, no. 3 (July 2012):668.
5. Review of Made in Hanford: The Bomb that Changed the World by Hill Williams in Oregon
Historical Quarterly, 112 (Winter 2011): 520-1.
6. “Nuclear Environmental Justice in Arizona and Beyond” Voices from the Sylff Community
(October 2011): 7-11.
7. “Three Mile Island” entry in Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (Facts on File,
2011) 475-7.
8. Review of The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the
United States by J. Samuel Walker, “In a Yucca-tomic Pickle” in Metascience 19, no. 3 (2010):
9 . “From the Profession: Environmental Justice Outreach in Japan and Arizona” American
Society for Environmental History News 21, no. 3 (Winter 2010).
10. “Report from the First World Congress of Environmental History,” The History of Science
Society Newsletter of the History of Science Society 38, no. 4 October (2009).
11. “Human Dynamos vs. Nuclear Weapons: A Tribute to Ava Helen Pauling and the Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom” Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom Magazine 69, no. 1 (2009): 4-5, 18.
12. “No More War: 50 Years Later” Life@OSU, October 2, 2008, 2.
13. “Uranium Mining Banned on Navajo Nation” Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom Magazine 67, no. 1 (2007): 10.
CONFERENCES and INVITED LECTURES
Presenter “On the Beach: Speculative Fact and Fiction in Health Physics” History of Science
Society Annual Meeting, November 21-24, Boston MA (forthcoming)
Panelist, “Is it a Human Right to not be Contaminated by Radiation or Threatened by Nuclear
War? Why Linus Pauling Thought So,” Canadian History of Science and Philosophy Annual
Meeting, Victoria, BC, June 2-4 2013
Invited Presenter, “The Accidental Scholar: How to Integrate Social Justice and Peace into
Academic Life” OSU History Department “Lunch Bunch” May 31, 2013
Invited Presenter, “Linus Pauling and his Chemistry of Peace” Annual Meeting of the Peace and
Conflict Studies Consortium, Oregon State University, February 2, 2013
Invited Lecturer “Hibakusha and the Nagasaki Commemorations,” Ashland Hiroshima Nagasaki
Vigil August 9, 2012
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Presenter “Starfish, International Law, and Human Rights” History of Science Society 3 Society
Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, July 13, 2012
Observer, Conference on Disarmament, Second Part, United Nations Office in Geneva,
Switzerland, May 14, 2012
Participant, Abolition 2000 International Annual Meeting, Kulturzentrum Amerlinghuas, Vienna,
Austria, May 5, 2012
Participant, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Diplomacy Academy, Vienna,
Austria, April 28-29, 2012
Participant, Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference Preparatory Meeting for Non
Governmental Organizations International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 30 April –
May 11, 2012
Presenter, “Global Nuclear Weapons Disarmament, Human Rights, and Nuclear History” Peace
Jam conference for youth, April 15, 2012
Invited Panelist, “Dirty Energy Panel” Committee Against Environmental Racism Conference,
University of Oregon, Eugene April 7, 2012
Invited Representative to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom DISARM!
Committee, Anti Nuclear Alliance Nuclear Lobby Days and Strategy Planning Retreat,
Washington, DC, March 18- 23, 2012
Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Scholar in Residence Lecture, “Starfish, Atomic Law, and Human
Rights” Valley Library, Oregon State University March 7, 2012
Participant, “Lessons of Fukushima” Willamette University Law School, Salem, Oregon
February 24-25, 2012
Invited Lecture, “Peace as a Learning Process” Linus Pauling Chapter of Veterans for Peace
Corvallis, Oregon February 27, 2012
Presenter, “Carol Urner: From Fallout to Keep Space for Peace Week,” Women of the World
International Conference, Paris University 13, November 18, 2011
Presenter, “Why Nuclear History is a Technocratic Narrative” History of Science Society
Meeting, Cleveland, November 2011
Presenter, “From Fallout to Fukushima: How Nuclear History can be Told as a Struggle for
Human Rights,” Peace History Society Meeting, Miami, October 2011
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Invited Master of Ceremonies and Panel Moderator, Southern Oregon University United Nations
Club Celebration of the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, October 2011
Facilitator, Workshops on Environmental Justice and the Nuclear Fuel Chain at Southern Oregon
University (Ashland), University of Oregon (Eugene), and Oregon State University, October 5-7
2011
Participant, Continuity and Discontinuity in the Physical Sciences Since the Enlightenment
Conference, American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland, July 2011
Participant, Week Technical Training on Nuclear Issues, Institute for Energy and Environmental
Research with Arjun Makhijani, Takoma Park, Maryland June 2011
Facilitator, Diversity Committee Workshop “Environmental Justice in Arizona and Beyond”
American Society for Environmental History, Phoenix, April 2011
Presenter, “Nuclear Bodies in Controversy” Nuclear International Research Group, American
Society for Environmental History, Phoenix, April 2011
“Pictograph of Diné College’s Uranium Education Project and Diné Environmental Institute”
Poster Presentation with Perry Charley of Diné College, American Society for Environmental
History, Phoenix, April 2011
Invited Presenter, “Breathing Fallout: An Oregon Snapshot” 2011 Gordon Cain Conference on
“Chemical Weather, Chemical Climate: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective” Chemical
Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, March 2011
Invited Facilitator, “The Return of Navajo Boy” film and discussion, Public Interest
Environment Law Conference, University of Oregon, March, 2011
Invited Speaker, International Women’s Day Celebration, Ashland, Oregon, March 2011
Film Facilitator, “The Return of Navajo Boy” OSU November 2010
Presentation, “Folding Friendship into Nuclear History” OSU History Department, October 2010
Invited lecturer, “How Friendship and Remembrance Could Help Save the World” Whitefeather
Peace House, Portland, Oregon and Corvallis Friends Meeting, September 2010
Delegate, World Conference against Atom and Hydrogen Bombs, attended official
commemorations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and met with Mayor of Hiroshima, American
University’s Nuclear Studies Course, Japan, August 2010
Invited Lecturer, “Friendship, Ava Helen Pauling and Disarmament” Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom Western Regional Conference, Ashland, Oregon July 2010
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Invited Lecturer, “The Case of the Navajo Nation” University of Oregon Coalition Against
Environmental Racism Conference, May 2010
Presenter, “Disrupting and Restoring Hozho: Nuclear Colonialism and the Navajo Nation”
Oregon State University Social Justice Symposium as part of Holocaust Week: Cultural Memory
and the Representation of Genocide as a Concern for Social Justice April, 2010
“Celilo Falls: Falls of Life” Poster Presentation, American Society for Environmental History
and Public History Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 2010
Presenter, “Being Non-Violence” with the Thoreau Society at the Philadelphia Modern
Language Association Conference, January 2010
Invited Lecturer, “American Nuclear Science and the Navajo Nation” Nuclear International
Research Group, University of Toronto, November 2009
Participant, Regional Oral History Office, Advanced Oral History Institute, University of
California at Berkeley, August 2009.
Participant, World Congress of Environmental Historians Pre-Conference PhD Workshop on
multidisciplinary research units, Roskilde University, Denmark, August 2009
Presenter and Panel Organizer, “Making Nuclear War Preparations Visible” at the First World
Congress of Environmental Historians in Copenhagen, “First Nations and Nuclear Science:
Disrupting Hozho” August 2009
Participant, Week Technical Training on Nuclear Issues, Institute for Energy and Environmental
Research with Arjun Makhijani, Takoma Park, Maryland June 2009
Presenter, “The Oregon Centennial, a Nuclear Snapshot, 1957-1959” Oregon History
Conference, Portland, April 2009
Presenter, “The Battle of the Radioactive Barrel: July 4, 1959” Columbia History of Science
Group, Friday Harbor, March 2009
“Comparing Nuclearity between the OSU Campus and the Navajo Nation” Poster Presentation,
American Society for Environmental Historians Conference at Tallahassee, February 2009
Invited Lecturer, “Ava Helen and Linus Pauling and the OSU Special Collections,” at the
original Linus Pauling House in Portland, Oregon, 2008
Invited Lecturer, “A Collage of Nuclear Science History using the Biographies of Five Women,
Dorothy Day, Ava Helen Pauling, Rachel Carson, Dr. Alice Stewart, and Winona LaDuke,”
Oregon State University Women’s Center, 2008
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Presenter, “First Nations and Nuclear Science” Talking Across Borders Conference, University
of Washington, Seattle, 2007
Participant, Darmstadt, Germany Global Network International Meeting, 2007
Presenter, “Weapons in Space” First U.S. Social Forum, Atlanta, Georgia 2007
Delegate, Iraqi and US Women’s Peace Delegation, “Women Say No to War” Washington DC,
2006
Lecturer, “Satyagraha and Feminism” Woman’s Leadership Conference, Southern Oregon
University, 2007
Participant, World Peace Forum in Vancouver, Canada at University of British Columbia, 2006
Participant, Indigenous World Uranium Summit, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona 2006
Presenter, “Nuclear History Lessons” at Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemorations 2005-2008,
Ashland, Oregon, topics ranging from health effects of radiation, Oregon nuclear history, nuclear
power and the scientists who tried to stop the use of nuclear weapons and worked for
international disarmament
COURSES TAUGHT
Oregon State University
Winter, Spring, Summer 2013 Instructor History of Science 419 e-campus on line course
“Scientific Controversies”
Spring 2013 “Peace and Justice” volunteer teacher for at risk youth as part of the OSU
Philosophy Department’s Phronesis Project to outreach from the university to the community
Summer 2012 and Fall 2011 HSTS 422 “Science and Politics” Writing Intensive Course with
original curriculum designed around the life of Linus Pauling as a window into the 20th Century
that utilizes the OSU Special Collections and University Archives requiring original research by
students.
Developed original syllabus and curriculum plan and co-taught HSTS Special Topics 499/599
“Fission, Fusion, Psychosis” Environmental History (Winter 2009) integrating multiple
perspectives into the nuclear fuel chain, for example, integrating indigenous viewpoints from
uranium mining impacted communities to Hanford downwinders to Oregon State nuclear
engineering professors.
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Additional Academic Teaching Experience
2009-2010 TA for Public History and Civil Rights History
2009 Spring TA for Holocaust History course
2008 Various original lectures as a Teaching Assistant in OSU History classes, topics ranging
from Medieval Science to Sojourner Truth and guest lecturer in SOU Conflict/Negotiation class
2008 TA for American History 202 Winter Term; “Why War: A Historical Perspective” History,
317 Spring Term; and American History 201 Fall Term
2007 Teaching Assistant for spring SOU Communication Conflict/Negotiation Class
1994-2003 Briscoe Elementary School, Ashland, Oregon Special Education/Teaching Assistant
MEMBERSHIPS and COMMITEES
OSU Holocaust Remembrance Committee;
Society for the History of Technology;
History of Science Society;
American Society for Environmental History and ASEH Diversity Committee;
Peace History Society;
Nuclear International Research Group;
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Received $14,000 Tokyo Foundation SYLFF grant to organize an environmental justice forum at
ASEH annual meeting in Phoenix April 15 and an October tour of the forum to three Oregon
campuses October 5-7, 2011;
Organized three on-campus Hanford clean up forums and lectures and one international activist
lecture on space nuclear weapons;
Created a public history project while folding 1000 peace cranes with community members to
take to the commemorations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki;
Facilitator of a collaboration with OSU Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics,
“How OSU Grew Nuclear Science” 50th Anniversary Oral History Collections of faculty, staff
and students;
Facilitator, Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemorations in Southern Oregon, 1998-2007;
Facilitator, Community Workshops on Conflict Resolution and Non-Violence trainer, including
curriculum design and content on Nuclear Issues, Conflict Resolution, Consensus, Facilitation,
Satyagraha, Peacekeeping, and Communication Skills 1986-2007.
RELEVENT EXPERIENCES
Attended official 65th Commemorations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan and met with the
Mayor of Hiroshima Tadatoshi Akiba, as a representative of the Mayors of Ashland and
Corvallis, Oregon;
Certified Oregon Mediator;
Peace House, Assistant and Co-Director 2003-2005;
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Author and administrator of numerous grants, including management of a weekly free meal for
the homeless, a community garden, and organized and sent relief medical aid to Haditha, Iraq;
Numerous interviews on local TV and radio news broadcasts;
Clear Actions Ashland, Oregon editor and writer 1991-2006;
Numerous independent media articles and postings since 2003 at rogueimc.org;
1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, 9 month walk from Los Angeles to
DC;
Journalist for the Free Press in Shallotte, NC, 1985 to 1987
SELECTED ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
Ingrid Ockert, “Historian Reaches out to Navajo and Nuclear Scientists” Terra Magazine,
October 31, 2011 http://oregonstate.edu/terra/2011/10/bridging-the-nuclear-divide/
Adrian Black, “Film Brings Hope, Change to the Navajo Nation and Beyond” University of
Oregon Daily Emerald, October 6, 2011 http://navajoboy.com/30553/oregon-daily-emerald-filmbrings-hope-change-to-navajo-nation-and-beyond/
Kim Kenny, “Award Winning Film Comes to LaSells Tonight” Oregon State University Daily
Barometer October 7, 2011 http://www.dailybarometer.com/award-winning-navajo-film-comesto-lasells-tonight-1.2636500#.To-CSU_cXpk
“Alumnus Linda Richards Brings Nuclear Issues to SOU” MiM@SOU, October 5, 2011
http://blogs.sou.edu/mim/2011/10/05/mimsou-alumni-linda-richards-brings-nuclear-issues-tosou/
International Women’s Day, Jefferson Public Radio Interview, March 7, 2011
http://atomicvigil.net/
Makenzie Marineau, “Peace on Earth is at the Heart of Doctoral Candidate’s Work” Life@OSU
December 20, 2010 http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2010/peace-on-earth-is-at-the-heartof-osu-doctoral-candidate/
Southern Oregon University's President's Page,” Student Spotlights: Linda M. Richards” June
16, 2007. http://www.sou.edu/president/newsroom/enews-I-7.html
Ashland Daily Tidings Editorial, “Each Graduate has a Unique Story” June 16, 2007.
http://www.atomicvigil.net/LindaRichards.html
Shirley Wentworth, “War and Peace Neutralized” Ashland Daily Tidings June 15, 2007, p. 1.
http://www.atomicvigil.net/LindaRichards.html
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