Naomi Oreskes, professor of history and science studies and provost of the Sixth College at UC San Diego, has been awarded the Francis Bacon Prize in recognition of outstanding scholarship in the history of science and technology.
History Professor Cathy Gere's book "Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism" reviewed in the The New York Review of Books.
G. Mark Hendrickson
Assistant Professor, History
Appointment effective 7/1/09
Mark Hendrickson received his Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of California, Santa Barbara in United States policy history and labor history. His dissertation, “Labor Knowledge and the Building of Modern Industrial Relations, 1918-1929,” is currently under revision for publication as a book, now called “New Capitalism: Rights, Expectations, and Fairness in the New Era Economy." One of the key contributions of Dr. Hendrickson’s project is to chart the rise of nongovernmental organizations after World War I and he pinpoints the fluid movement of individuals, findings, investigatory methods, and ideas between nonprofits, corporations, labor unions, and government bureaucracy. His research is grounded in the archives of organizations such as the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and also of such non-government research entities as the Urban League and the Russell Sage Foundation. Dr. Hendrickson has won the Aspen Institute Dissertation Fellowship, the Aspen Institute Dissemination fellowship, and an SSRC dissertation fellowship in Philanthropy and the Non Profit Sector that recognize the path-breaking nature of his work in drawing attention to the role of non-profits and philanthropic organizations between the wars in engaging government policymakers and recasting the debate on fair wages, government intervention, and industrial policy. He has been teaching at Colorado State University in Fort Collins Colorado since Fall 2004. At UCSD he will be teaching U.S. economic history and course on public policy history such as “Labor, Race, and Public Policy in the 20 th Century” and “In the Public Interest: Civil Rights, Immigration, Health Care, and Economic Citizenship.”
Todd Henry
Assistant Professor in Residence, History
Appointment effective 7/1/09
Todd Henry received his B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University, an M.A. in International Relations from Sophia University in Tokyo, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from UCLA. After completing his 2006 dissertation, “Keijō: Japanese and Korean Constructions of Colonial Seoul and the History of its Lived Spaces, 1910-37,” he was offered a position here at UCSD under the Faculty Fellows Program, but declined in order to take up a ladder-rank assistant professorship at Colorado State University at Fort Collins where he has taught for two years. During the 2008/2009 academic year as a Korea Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard’s Korea Institute, he has been revising his dissertation into a book, Ethnographies of Power: Seoul’s Public Spaces under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1910-45. His comparative and transnational studies of Japanese and Korean history are founded upon his high proficiency in both the Japanese and the Korean language. At UCSD, Dr. Henry will concentrate his teaching on the history of modern Korea, especially on topics of imperialism and modernity, city spaces and urban cultures, and gender and sexuality.