Shannon Cram
Biographic Data
| ID | 115041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Cram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Cram |
| SIGNATURE | CRAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington Bothell |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-1005-097X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Author response
This short response considers the author's research and writing process, with a particular focus on narrative form and method
Placemaking in the nuclear sensorium
This dialogue considers Irene Lusztig's 2023 film Richland , a place‐based documentary about a nuclear company town in southeastern Washington State. Built by the US government as part of the Manhattan Project, Richland fueled thousands of weapons in the nation's nuclear arsenal, including the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Lusztig speaks with interdisciplinary scholar Shannon Cram about how this community inhabits the complex and contradictory…
Wild and Scenic Wasteland
Nuclear weapons production has created a unique geography of irradiated open space in the United States. In recent years, many of these landscapes have been re-classified as national wildlife refuges in an attempt to transform the nation's atomic sacrifice zones into spaces of environmental salvation. However, these areas are also home to contaminated biota that migrate beyond refuge boundaries, inspiring biological vector control campaigns that …
Living in Dose
This article explores the politics of permissible exposure for US nuclear workers. I argue that despite recent efforts to improve regulations for occupational radiation protection, the federal government has been unable to solve the fundamental paradox of nuclear safety: that some level of exposure is unavoidable when working with nuclear materials and that any level of exposure comes with an associated biological risk. In short, injury is an ope…
Becoming Jane
This article examines the politics of permissible exposure in American nuclear remediation. At its heart is Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation's largest and most expensive nuclear cleanup effort. According to Superfund regulation, nuclear landscapes are considered remediated once acceptable carcinogenic risk levels have been met. The challenge of remediation, then, is to measure and manage the conditions of carcinogenic en…
Becoming Jane
This article examines the politics of permissible exposure in American nuclear remediation. At its heart is Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation's largest and most expensive nuclear cleanup effort. According to Superfund regulation, nuclear landscapes are considered remediated once acceptable carcinogenic risk levels have been met. The challenge of remediation, then, is to measure and manage the conditions of carcinogenic en…
Living in Dose
This article explores the politics of permissible exposure for US nuclear workers. I argue that despite recent efforts to improve regulations for occupational radiation protection, the federal government has been unable to solve the fundamental paradox of nuclear safety: that some level of exposure is unavoidable when working with nuclear materials and that any level of exposure comes with an associated biological risk. In short, injury is an ope…
Wild and Scenic Wasteland
Nuclear weapons production has created a unique geography of irradiated open space in the United States. In recent years, many of these landscapes have been re-classified as national wildlife refuges in an attempt to transform the nation's atomic sacrifice zones into spaces of environmental salvation. However, these areas are also home to contaminated biota that migrate beyond refuge boundaries, inspiring biological vector control campaigns that …
Becoming Jane
This article examines the politics of permissible exposure in American nuclear remediation. At its heart is Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation's largest and most expensive nuclear cleanup effort. According to Superfund regulation, nuclear landscapes are considered remediated once acceptable carcinogenic risk levels have been met. The challenge of remediation, then, is to measure and manage the conditions of carcinogenic en…
Wild and Scenic Wasteland
Nuclear weapons production has created a unique geography of irradiated open space in the United States. In recent years, many of these landscapes have been re-classified as national wildlife refuges in an attempt to transform the nation's atomic sacrifice zones into spaces of environmental salvation. However, these areas are also home to contaminated biota that migrate beyond refuge boundaries, inspiring biological vector control campaigns that …
Living in Dose
This article explores the politics of permissible exposure for US nuclear workers. I argue that despite recent efforts to improve regulations for occupational radiation protection, the federal government has been unable to solve the fundamental paradox of nuclear safety: that some level of exposure is unavoidable when working with nuclear materials and that any level of exposure comes with an associated biological risk. In short, injury is an ope…
Placemaking in the nuclear sensorium
This dialogue considers Irene Lusztig's 2023 film Richland , a place‐based documentary about a nuclear company town in southeastern Washington State. Built by the US government as part of the Manhattan Project, Richland fueled thousands of weapons in the nation's nuclear arsenal, including the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Lusztig speaks with interdisciplinary scholar Shannon Cram about how this community inhabits the complex and contradictory…
Author response
This short response considers the author's research and writing process, with a particular focus on narrative form and method
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Nuclear weapon (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (2 works)