PUBLICATIONS,
PRESENTATIONS, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
"The Air Force,
Missiles, and the Rise of the Los Angeles Aerospace Technopole,"
July 1997article in Journal of the West.
Chapter Two of "Space
and Missile Center Annual History," classified Secret, SMC History
Office, Los Angeles AFB, 1996.
"Behind Every
Man is a...: The Hispanic Workers in Contemporary Los Alamos National
Laboratory," Brown Bag Series presentation, November 1995; UCLA
History Department.
Moderator, "Cold
War Science ," Mephistos Conference, UCLA, February 1997.
History of Science
Society, member 1993 - present.
Society of History
of Technology, member 1994 - present.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Teaching Experience
Instructor, Summer
2000, History Department, UCLA Extension; Power, Ethics, and Engineering.
Teaching Fellow,
Spring 2000, History Department, UCLA; History 99: "Sociocultural
Aspects of the Los Alamos Science City.: Teach own research seminar
on dissertation topic.
Teaching Fellow,
1998-2000, Physics Department, UCLA; Physics 6AL: Physics for Science
Students Laboratory
Teaching Fellow;
1997-98; Institute of the Environment, UCLA; Env 1: Global Environment,
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Teaching Fellow;
1997; Atmospheric Sciences Department, UCLA; AS 2: Air Pollution.
Teaching Associate;
1996; History Department, UCLA; Power, Ethics, and Engineering.
Teaching Associate;
1994-97; Atmospheric Sciences Department, UCLA; AS 3: Introduction to
Meteorology and AS 2: Air Pollution.
Teaching Assistant;
1993; Physics Department, UCLA; Physics 6CL: Physics for Life Science
Students Laboratory.
Research
Experience
Research Fellow, 2001-02; Institute of American Cultures, UCLA; Chicana/o Studies Research Center
Graduate Research
Asst.; 1995; History Department, UCLA; Center for the Cultural Studies
of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Military
Experience
Staff Historian;
Spring 1996; Space and Missile Center, Los Angeles AFB, CA.
Weather Officer;
1990-97; USAF Reserves; Travis AFB, CA.
Atmospheric and
Space Environmental Forecaster; USAF; Cheyenne Mountain AFB, CO.