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Robert Franklin<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

CIC 202H
\n509-372-7678
\nrobert.franklin@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Current History 105 Issues Taught:<\/b>
Humans and the Environment: Nuclear Energy and Climate Change
Globalization: Global Pandemics
Roots of Inequality: Racial Inequality
Diverse Ways of Thinking: War and Terror
Roots of Contemporary Conflict: The Global Nuclear Order<\/p>\n

Other Courses Taught:<\/b>
Hist 110 American History to 1877<\/p>\n

Hist 111 American History 1877 to Present<\/p>\n

Hist 250 Peoples of the United States<\/p>\n

Hist 318 United States, 1914-1945
Hist 319 United States, 1945-Present
Hist 420 United States, 1980-Present
Hist 395 Topics in History: Atomic World

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About Robert Franklin:<\/b>
Robert Franklin is a public and academic historian of the Hanford Nuclear Site near Richland, WA, and his research focuses on 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century US with a particular focus on the Manhattan Project and the Cold War.\u00a0 He holds a dual appointment as Assistant Director of the Hanford History Project at WSU Tri-Cities where he manages the Department of Energy\u2019s Hanford Collection, an archive, archaeological, and artifact collection that documents the history of the Hanford Site from 1945-1990.\u00a0 He also directs the Hanford Oral History Project and related projects focused on the Black and Latinx communities of the Mid-Columbia.\u00a0 He is a frequent collaborator with the National Park Service Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MAPR)\u00a0 as a docent and subject matter expert, and president of the B Reactor Museum Association, a non-profit group that supports interpretative efforts at MAPR.\u00a0 For Washington State University he serves as the Tri-Cities representative for the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program and represents the College of Arts and Sciences on the Resident Faculty Organization at WSU Tri-Cities.<\/p>\n

He, along with Dr. Robert Bauman, is\u00a0 a co-editor and co-author of two books in the\u00a0Hanford Histories\u00a0<\/i>series,\u00a0Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region<\/i>.\u00a0 His current research projects focus on early waste management decisions at Hanford and the history of the early Cold War.<\/p>\n

Robert earned his Master\u2019s in Public History (2014) from Washington State University and a B.A. in History from the University of Hawaii Hilo (2011).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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