Research by Dr. Janet Brodie

Janet Farrell Brodie specializes in cold war U.S. history, U.S. nuclear history, 19th and 20th-century social and cultural history, and gender history. Her publications include Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press) and High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (University of California Press), co-edited with Marc Redfield. Her current project explores radiation research in the early cold war and civilian researchers’ acculturation to atomic energy secrecy. She oversees the archival studies program in the history department and the oral history program. She stepped down last year as executive director of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.