Emily Yates-Doerr
Grant Type
Post PhD Research GrantInstitutional Affiliation
Oregon State U.Grant number
Gr. 10665Approve Date
April 15, 2024Project Title
Yates-Doerr, Emily (Oregon State U.) "Nuclear Stories: Fallout, Scientific Truths, and the Half-Life of Memory"“Nuclear Stories” is a cultural excavation of rumors of radiation poisoning in a 1950s South Dakota farming town. The research uses a novel integration of community ethnography and archaeological soil core analysis to examine how memories of nuclear fall