Sarah Robey
Associate Professor | Director of the University Honors Program 20th-Century U.S. History; History of Science and Technology
Office: Pocatello Office: LA 340
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Education
Ph.D. Temple University
Research Interests
History of nuclear science and technology; history of energy; history of the Cold War; citizenship; 20th-century American cultural history; civil defense, disasters, and emergency management.
Books
Atomic Americans: Citizens in a Nuclear State, Cornell University Press, 2022.
Book Chapters
“‘Limitless Power at Man’s Command’: Sponsored Films, Science Education, and Visions of the Nuclear Future in the 1950s,” in Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, eds., American Energy Cinema, West Virginia University Press, 2023.
Digital Media Projects
Duck and Cover: The Civil Defense History Podcast.
Selected Articles and Book Reviews
“From Raindrop to Field: Irrigation History in Idaho, 1870-1970,” with Laura Woodworth-Ney, Historic Context Survey, Idaho State Historic Preservation Office, forthcoming.
"Secret Histories of the Bomb," Review of Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atomic Bomb, by Peter Watson, and Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space, by Mark Wolverton, Nature 562 (October 18, 2018), 342-343.
Review of Farm Hall and the German Atomic Project of World War II: A Dramatic History, by David C. Cassidy, Physics in Perspective 20 (September 2018), 305-313.
"Four Reasons Slack Will Change How You Teach," with Kathleen Kole de Peralta, Inside Digital Learning, Inside Higher Education, September 19, 2018.
Major Grants
Research Fellow, Idaho Humanities Council, 2022-2023.
Podcast Grant, The Reinventing Civil Defense Project, Stevens Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018.
Swiss National Science Foundation Exploratory Grant, 2017.
Courses Taught
HIST 1112 U.S. History since 1865
HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 2291 Introduction to Research
HIST 4409/5509 Modern United States
HIST 4418/5518 History for Teachers
HIST 4433/5533 History of Energy in the Modern U.S.
HIST 4434/5534 The Atomic Age
HIST 4440/5540 History of Revolutions
HIST 4467/5567 Cold War Culture in the U.S.
HIST 4491 History Seminar
HIST 6605 Introduction to Graduate Studies in History
HIST 6620 Research and Writing Seminar