Dr. Jon Hunner Collection

DONOR:

Dr. Jon Hunner

SIZE:

10 cubic feet

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Photographs:
Ralph and Paul Hunner collections
Dr. Charles Bell collection
A/V:
Industrial training tapes

BIOGRAPHY:

Jon Hunner is the director of the Public History Program at New Mexico State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. His book, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community is available through the University of Oklahoma Press. He also has contributed chapters to Atomic Culture: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West. As director of the Public History Program at NMSU, Dr. Hunner assists in the preservation of New Mexico’s diverse cultures. He assists communities around the state in documenting, interpreting, and publicizing their history and culture.

In 2001, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to assist Vaxjo University in Sweden in developing a public history program and an American Studies program. From that experience, he started a living history course at NMSU called Time Traveling through New Mexico’s Past. Last fall, the class recreated living in a Hooverville in Las Cruces during the Great Depression. His next book project is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Chasing Oppie, written for undergraduate university students.

 

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