Neil S. Oatsvall, Ph.D.

Ph.D. University of Kansas, 2013
Dissertation: "Splitting Atoms, Fracturing Landscapes: Policymaking, Environmental Science, and the Nuclear Complex, 1945-1960"

M.A. North Carolina State University, 2008
Thesis: "War on Nature, War on Bodies: The United States' Chemical Defoliant Use During the Vietnam War and Its Consequences"

B.A. University of North Carolina, 2005

International Christian University (Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan)
国際基督教大学（三鷹市、東京都、日本）

Research Triangle High School
      Social Studies Teacher, 2023-present.

Triangle Math and Science Academy
      Social Studies Teacher & Grade Chair, 2021-2023.

Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts
      History and Social Science Instructor, 2015-2021.

North Carolina Governor's School, East Campus
      Lead Social Science Instructor, 2010
      Social Science Instructor, 2009
      Area II Instructor, 2008, 2022-2023

Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural world, and Policymaking, 1945-1960
Published February 2023 with The University of Alabama Press
In the series entitled NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine

“Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion, or The Billion-Dollar Debacle,”
The Journal of Military History, 87 (July 2023): 633-674

“Bottling Nature’s Elixir: The Mountain Valley Spring Water Company, Environment, Health, and Capitalism”
Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 78:1 (Spring 2019)

“‘The devil was in the Englishman that he makes everything work’: Implementing the Concept of ‘Work’ to Reevaluate Sugar Production and Consumption in the Early Modern British Atlantic World” (With Vaughn Scribner)
Agricultural History, 92.4 (Fall 2018)

“Advertising Indians”
Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 18.2 (Summer 2018): 11-18

“Weather, Otters, and Bombs: Policymaking, Environmental Science, and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1945-1958”
In Proving Grounds: Weapons Testing, Militarized Landscapes, and the Environmental Impact of American Empire, Edwin Martini, ed.
University of Washington Press (Fall 2015)

“Atomic Agriculture: Policymaking, Food Production, and Nuclear Technologies in the United States, 1945-1960”
Agricultural History, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Summer 2014)

“Trees Versus Lives: Reckoning Military Success and the Ecological Effects of Chemical Defoliation During the Vietnam War”
Environment and History, Vol. 19, No. 4 (November 2013): 427-458