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Kendrick J. Oliver University of Southampton |
| List Affiliations: | None |
| Interests: | American History / Studies History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Religious Studies and Theology |
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Bio: I am a Reader in American history at the University of Southampton. I specialize in the history of the United States from 1945 to 1980. In particular, I am interested in exploring modern American political, social and cultural responses to some of the larger questions of human existence. This theme links my doctoral work on nuclear diplomacy with subsequent studies of memory and catastrophe, wartime atrocities, crime and punishment, religion and space exploration, and with my current research into the cultural history of the ‘big bang’ theory. My publications include Kennedy, Macmillan and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961-63 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998), The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory (Manchester University Press, 2006) and To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane and the American Space Program, 1957-1975 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). |
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