Janet Farrell Brodie

Contact Information

Blaisdell House, #2
143 East Tenth Street
(909) 621-8880
janet.brodie@cgu.edu

Spring 2013 Office Hours

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Education

Ph.D., History, University of Chicago
M.A., History, University of Chicago
B.A., History, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

• Cold War secrecy
• War and American cultural history
• Women, gender, and Cold War history

Teaching Fields

• Cold War history
• War and American social/cultural history
• Material culture in the U.S.
• Gender and women's history

Current Project(s)

Radiation networks and knowledge production in the U.S., 1945-1959

Selected Publications

"Learning Secrecy in the Early Cold War: The RAND Corporation," Diplomatic History 35:4 (September 2011).

High Anxieties; Studies in Addiction and Culture, edited with Marc Redfield (University of California Press, 2003).

Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 1994; paperback, 1996).