URANIUM MINES
Our approach to teaching Atomic America sought to nuance the traditional curriculum in five intersecting ways:
1. Through an interdisciplinary approach, we read across the disciplines of history, anthropology, geography, geology, ecology, and...Read more
1. Advanced literacy in the regional tradition of historical and cultural studies of nuclear technologies and development in the United States, and the role of New Mexico in particular, as well as the complex moral, political, economic, and environmental...Read more
Our approach to teaching Atomic America was divided into two parts. The first part of the course was dedicated to a survey of the literature and class discussions. Students compiled weekly reading annotations based on a shared set of questions ( ...Read more
The second part of the course was focused on two collaborative case studies that were selected in advance by the instructor because they mark the beginning and the end of the life cycle of nuclear development, from uranium mining to nuclear weapons testing in New Mexico. I borrowed a life...Read more
In September 2020, I was contacted by a colleague at New Mexico Tech with news that a professor had unexpectedly passed away, leaving a vacancy for teaching a course with 25 students already enrolled. When I accepted the invitation to teach Atomic America, I had to rapidly design the...Read more
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This section is still being written and revised in coordination with colleagues from UNM METALS SRP, NMT CLASS, B-EiJ Teaching Collective, and the Radiation Governance Project in the Disaster STS Network. It will be published after a series of online onferences and workshops....Read more
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