The Department of History is happy to announce that PhD student David Bolingbroke was awarded the Graduate School’s Arnold and Julia Greenwell Memorial Scholarship for Social Sciences and Humanities for the 2017/18 academic year. Bolingbroke plans to use the $1000 scholarship to fund research travel towards completion of his dissertation directed by Jeff Sanders. Congratulations David!
Tentatively titled “Atomic Restoration: An Environmental History of the Hanford Nuclear Site,” the project focuses on Hanford, the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site, and its dynamic relationship with nature from the time it produced plutonium during World War II and the Cold War to ongoing nuclear waste cleanup efforts. His project emphasizes the work of ecologists studying the effect of radioactivity on living things and how they produced a new knowledge system centered on understanding nuclear landscapes. Bolingbroke’s work in Atomic Energy Commission records and other collections outside the state will add to work he has already done in Hanford History Project collections at the WSU Tri-Cities campus: https://tricities.wsu.edu/hanfordhistory/.
For more information and photographs of the Hanford Nuclear Site, see the WWW link here.
