Directory of Researchers

• Lloyd Ackert is a Special Collections Humanities Fellow and a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Program of the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University (2004-2006). He recently completed a Ph.D. with Daniel Todes in the Program for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at Johns Hopkins University where he wrote a thesis on “From the Thermodynamics of Life to Ecological Microbiology: Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life, 1850-1950.” His article "Sergei Vinogradskii's Microbiological Contributions to Agriculture, 1890-1940" is under review as part of a forthcoming thematic issue in the Journal of the History of Biology on the influence of biology on agriculture (2005). Lloyd is currently writing a monograph on the history of the concept of the cycle of life from the rise of organic chemistry to ecosystem ecology.

• Mark B. Adams is Graduate Chairman of the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His research interests include the history of biology (especially genetics, eugenics, and evolutionary theory), the comparative history of Russian and Soviet science and technology, scientific futurism, and the interrelation of institutions, disciplines, and networks. Publications include The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky (Princeton, 1994), The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia (Oxford, 1990), and some forty articles. He is currently finishing a longterm study of science during the Khrushchev period.

• James T. Andrews is an associate professor of Modern Russian and Comparative EurAsian history in the department of history at Iowa State University (ISU), and a member of the graduate faculty at ISU's Center for the Historical Studies of Technology and Science. He is currently Director of Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at ISU. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern Russian/Soviet history from the University of Chicago, and has taught as a visiting professor at several research institutions including the University of Texas at Austin. His publications have analyzed the intersection of science/technology, society, and public culture in Modern Russia. He is the author of Science for the Masses: The Bolshevik State, Public Science, and the Popular Imagination in Soviet Russia, 1917-34  (2003), editor of Maksim Gor'kii Revisited: Science, Academics and Revolution (1995), and the author of several articles on the social and cultural history of Russian/Soviet science and society. His newest book, forthcoming, is entitled Visions of Space Flight: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian Popular Culture, and the Roots of Soviet Cosmonautics, 1857-1957.

• Harley D. Balzer is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University. Dr. Balzer's research interests include Russian politics, social history, science and technology, and education. His publications include Soviet Science on the Edge of Reform, Five Years That Shook the World: Gorbachev's Unfinished Revolution, and Russia's Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History.

• William P. Barry is currently a Senior International Programs Specialist in the Office of External Relations, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. His research interests center on the political history of the Soviet/Russian Space program. This was the subject of his doctoral dissertation at Oxford University (1996), entitled: "The Missile Design Bureaux and Soviet Manned Space Policy, 1953-1970." Publications include: "How the Space Race Began - The Origins of the Soviet Space Program," SHFG Occasional Papers, no. 1, 1997; and "Sputnik and the Creation of the Soviet Space Industry," chapter 4 in Reconsidering Sputnik (Harwood, 2000).

• Frances Bernstein, Assistant Professor of History at Drew University, is the author of The Dictatorship of Sex: Gender, Health, and Enlightenment in Revolutionary Russia, 1918-1931 (Northern Illinois University Press, forthcoming), "Panic, Potency, and the Crisis of Nervousness in the 1920s," in Everyday Subjects: Formations of Identity in Early Soviet Culture, ed. Christina Kiaer and Eric Naiman (Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2005); "Visions of Sexual Health and Illness in Revolutionary Russia," in Sex, Sin and Suffering: Veneral Diseases in European Social Context since 1870, ed. Lesley Hall and Roger Davidson (Routledge, 2001); and "Prostitutes and Proletarians: The Labor Clinic as Revolutionary Laboratory in the 1920s," in The Human Tradition in Modern Russia, ed. William Husband (Scholarly Resources, 2000).

• John Biggart is Lecturer in History, University of East Anglia, UK. He is currently completing two books on Alexander Alexandorich Bogdanov-Malinovsky (1973-1928), pioneer in the development of blood transfusion, founder of Russia's first Institute of Blood Transfusion, and author of Tektology: General Organizational Science, a path-breaking work in systems theory. These two books are: 1. Ed. (with Georgii Gloveli and Avraham Yassour), Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov-Malinovsky: Guide to published works and archival holdings (Avebury Press, UK, 1997). 2. Origins and development of organization theory in Russia and the Soviet Union (Proceedings of International Conference held at University of East Anglia, January 1995) (Avebury Press, 1997).

• Chris Bissell is Professor of Telematics at the UK Open University. His particular research interest is a comparative study of the development of the discipline and profession of automatic control in the UK, USA, Germany and the former Soviet Union. He is currently working on institutional and socio-political aspects of the establishment of control engineering in the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s. His translations of several classic papers in information and communication technology, including a translation of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov's seminal 1933 paper on the sampling theorem, can be found via his website.

• Joseph Bradley is professor of history and department chair at the University of Tulsa. He is the author, most recently, of “Subjects into Citizens: Societies, Civil Society, and Autocracy in Tsarist Russia,” The American Historical Review (October 2002), pp. 1094-1123. This article is an overview of a book in progress. His earlier publications include Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late-Imperial Russia and Guns for the Tsar: American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-century Russia. He is co-editor of Russian Studies in History: A Journal of Translations.

• Nathan Brooks teaches Russian history and the history of science at the Department of History, New Mexico State University. His research interests focus on the history of Russian chemistry. He is the author of "Russian Chemistry in the 1850's: A Failed Attempt at Institutionalization," Annals of Science 52 (1995): 577-589; "Nikolai Zinin and Kazan University," Ambix 42 (1995): 129-142; "Public Lectures in Chemistry in Russia," Ambix 44 (1997), forthcoming.

• Cassandra Cavanaugh is Assistant Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. Fields: Imperial and Soviet Russia, Non-Russian nationalities, Central Asia under Russian rule, History of public health and medicine. Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University.

• Yves Cohen is Directeur d'études (professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is completing an international study of leadership cultures and practices in the Interwar period. He wrote: "Administration, politique et techniques : Réflexions sur la matérialité des pratiques administratives dans la Russie stalinienne (1922-1940)," Cahiers du monde russe, 44 (August-Sept. 2003) : 269-307; "Matter matters to authority: Some aspects of Soviet industrial management in the thirties from a multi-sited perspective," Business History Conference Meeting, June 2004; "The Soviet Fordson. Between the Politics of Stalin and the Philosophy of Ford, 1924-1932," in Hubert Bonin, Yannick Lung et Steven Tolliday, dir., Ford, 1903-2003. The European History, Paris, Plage, 2003, vol. 2, pp. 531-558; "Des lettres comme action: Stalin au début des années 1930 vu depuis le fonds Kaganovic," Cahiers du Monde russe, 38 (July-Sept 1997) : 307-346.

• Stephen Collier is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. His general topic is the post-Soviet intelligentsia; he is most interested in those members of the intelligentsia who have managed to leave the Academy of Sciences and set up new institutes, especially in Moscow, where they continue to serve as an intelligentsia and attempt to retain some measure of autonomy from the state and from capital.

• Jonathan Coopersmith is an Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. A historian of technology, he is particularly interested in technology transfer, electrotechnologies, and the Soviet/Russian space program. He has written The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926.

• Michael David-Fox is Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History at the University of Maryland. He has published Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 (1997), edited and introduced two volumes in Russian entitled Amerikanskaia rusistika (American Russian Studies) (The Imperial Period, 2000; The Soviet Period, 2001), and co-edited Academia in Upheaval: Origins, Transfers, and Transformations of the Communist Academic Regime in Russia and East Central Europe (2000). He is a founding editor of the University-based quarterly journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (see www.slavica.com/kritika), where he regularly comments on a broad range of issues in editorials, reaction pieces, and reviews.

• Wolfgang R. Dick is an astronomer and a geodesist, doing history of science research in his spare time. His interests include the history of astronomy in Russia and the Soviet Union, especially at Dorpat and Pulkovo. He has published several articles on the Struve dynasty and the history of Russian/German relations based on archival studies.

• Ronald E. Doel (Department of History and Department of Geoscience, Oregon State University) is currently working on the rise of the earth sciences in the twentieth century, as well as the international relations of science in the early Cold War. His publications include "Evaluating Soviet Lunar Science in Cold War America," Osiris [second series] 7 (1992): 238-264 and "Scientists as Policymakers, Advisors, and Intelligence Agents: Linking Diplomatic History with History of Science," in Thomas Soderqvist, ed., The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology (forthcoming 1997); he also edited, with Robert McCutcheon et. al., Astronomy and the Soviet State (special issue of the Journal for History of Astronomy, Nov. 1995).

• Charles E. Ford (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Louis University) studies connections between mathematicians and religious life in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieeth centuries, and also connections between mathematicians and Marxist ideology. He is the author of "Dmitrii Egorov: Mathematics and Religion in Moscow," The Mathematical Intelligencer, 13-2 (1991): 24-30, and "N. N. Luzin and the Affair of the 'National Fascist Center,'" with Sergei S. Demidov, in Festschrift for Joseph Scriba, ed. Joseph W. Dauben et. al., New York: Academic Press, 1996, pp. 137-148.

• Mark Gamsa received his DPhil from the University of Oxford with a thesis entitled The Russian-Chinese Encounter in Harbin, Manchuria (1898–1932). His publications include two articles in Modern Asian Studies (Oct. 2002) and The Slavonic and East European Review (April 2003) on gold mining along the Amur border between Russia and China, and an article in Past and Present (Feb. 2006) on the Russian-Chinese managed epidemic of pneumonic plague in Manchuria, 1910–11. Dr Gamsa is currently lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University.

• Slava Gerovitch is a lecturer in the Science, Technology and Society Program at MIT. He is interested in the politics, language, and culture of Soviet science and technology during the Cold War, specializing in the history of Soviet cosmonautics, computing, and cybernetics. He is the author of From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (MIT Press, 2002), numerous articles in journals, and book chapters in Science and Ideology, Universities and Empire, Cultures of Control, and Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight. His most recent article is "'New Soviet Man' Inside Machine: Human Engineering, Spacecraft Design, and the Construction of Communism," OSIRIS 22 (2007). He is currently working on a book on the technopolitics of automation in the Soviet space program.

• Michael Gordin is Associate Professor in the History Department at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of the modern physical sciences and the history of Imperial Russia, and his research concentrates on the intersection of those two areas. He has published articles on a variety of topics, such as the introduction of science into Russia in the early 18th century, the history of biological warfare in the late Soviet period, the relations between Russian literature and science, as well as a series of studies on the life and chemistry of Dmitrii I. Mendeleev, formulator of the periodic system of chemical elements. His first book is a cultural history of Mendeleev in the context of Imperial St. Petersburg, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table (2004). He is also the author of Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (2007), a history of the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, and the editor, with Peter Galison and David Kaiser, of the four-volume Routledge History of the Modern Physical Sciences. Professor Gordin is now studying a cadre of Russian scientists, including Mendeleev and the composer and chemist Aleksandr Borodin, who studied chemistry together in Germany in the late 1850s and then returned to help establish a modern, professional scientific community in St. Petersburg.

• Gennady Gorelik (Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University) is the author of Andrei Sakharov: nauka i svoboda (Moscow-Izhevsk, 2000), 6 other books, and numerous articles in English and Russian. His current project, "Science and Life of a Russian Entrepreneur," is a crossing of history of science and technology, history of Soviet antiballistic missile defense, and a post-Soviet success story of a major private company created by a team of former ABM radio-engineers. A book on this topic is being published in the Russian magazine Znanie-sila in installments since September 2002. Dr. Gorelik's article "Andrei Sakharov and Edward Teller" has been published in The Oxford Companion to The History of Modern Science, edited by J. L. Heilbron (Oxford University Press, 2003). His publications in Russian are presented at http://www.ihst.ru/~gorelik.

• Loren R. Graham is Professor of the History of Science at MIT and Visiting Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history of science in Russia and the Soviet Union in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union (1987) [Russian translation: Estestvoznanie, filosofiia i nauki o chelovecheskom povedenii v Sovetskom Soiuze (1991)], Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (1993), and Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (1993) [Russian translation: Ocherki istorii rossiiskoi i sovetskoi nauki (1998)].

• Elizabeth L. Haigh is Professor of History at Saint Mary's University in Canada. She is doing research on the life and work of Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, both in his capacity as the founder of biogeochemistry and as founder and first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv in 1918. She is the author of "Was V.I. Vernadsky a Ukrainian Nationalist?" The Ukrainian Review 43:2 (Summer 1996): 55-62.

• Anthony John Heywood is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. With research interests that center on the history of the Russian and Soviet railways, he is currently working on a history of the Russian railways in WW1. His publications include Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876-1952) and the Railways (2011), Modernising Lenin’s Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways (1999) and (with I.D.C. Button) the reference handbook Soviet Locomotive Types: The Union Legacy (1995).

• David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Associate Dean for the Humanities in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. His most recent book Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956, was published by Yale University Press in 1994, and won the Vucinich and Shulman prizes of the American Association of Slavic Studies. He has written The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (1983) and co-authored The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: Technical, Political and Arms Control Assessment (1984). He has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs, and scholarly journals. His current research focuses on ethnic conflict and international security, and on the consequences of the Soviet Union's collapse for the international system.

• Yvonne Howell is an Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Richmond. She has written on Russian and Czech literature, including a book on Soviet science fiction, Apocalyptic Realism: The Science Fiction of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. She is currently working on a biography of the geneticist Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson, with a particular focus on the cultural and political context of his sociobiological theories of genius and the evolutionary basis of ethical behavior.

• Konstantin Ivanov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Tula State Pedagogical University, Russia. His interests are in the history of astronomy and international scientific collaboration during the Cold War. He is the author of "The Glory and Tragedy of Prof. Stratonov," Science in Russia 6 (1994): 68-73; (with A.A. Gurshtein) "Scientific Feasts While the Public Starves: A Note on the Reconstruction of the Pulkovo Observatory after World War II," Journal for the History of Astronomy 26:4 (November 1995): 363-368, and several articles in Russian.

• Andrew Jenks is Assistant Professor in the History Department at California State University at Long Beach. His publications include Russia In A Box: Art and Identity in An Age of Revolution (2005) and "A Metro on the Mount: The Underground as a Church of Soviet Civilization," Technology and Culture 41:4 (2000), 697-724. He is now working on a study of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and his place in Soviet and post-Soviet culture.

• Paul Josephson teaches Russian and Soviet history at Colby College, and is director of the Program in Science, Technology and Society. His interests include history of nuclear power, comparative environmental history, history of physics, and history of big science and technology in the 20th century. He is the author of many articles and six books, including Red Atom, New Atlantis Revisited, Industrialized Nature and the forthcoming Resources Under Regimes.

• Ann Hibner Koblitz is Associate Professor of History at Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY, USA) and is the author of the book A Convergence of Lives - Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2nd edition, 1993) and of more than 20 articles on the history of Russian science, technology and medicine as well as the role of women in the history of science and on professional women in developing countries. She is founder and director of the Kovalevskaia Fund for Women in Science in Developing Countries and a member of the Executive Board of the US Committee for Scientific Cooperation with Viet Nam, and Chair of its Women in Science/History of Science Subcommittee.

• Alexei Kojevnikov is Associate Professor at the Department of History, the University of British Columbia, and senior research associate at the Institute for History of Science and Technology, Moscow. His research is divided between two fields: the history of modern physics and the cultural and social history of Russian/Soviet science. In his studies of Russian science, Kojevnikov addressed the problems of political authority of scientists in non-democratic environments, the interrelationship between science and ideology, cultural and conceptual specificities of scientific endeavor in the Soviet Union, thereby reconsidering many of North America’s historical stereotypes inherited from the Cold War era. He is the author of Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists (London: Imperial College Press, 2004) and numerous articles.

• Nikolai Krementsov is Associate Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the University of Toronto and Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of the History of Science and Technology. Among his publications are Stalinist Science (Princeton Univ. Press, 1997), The Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics from the Annals of the Cold War (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002), "Th. Dobzhansky and Russian Entomology: The Origin of His Ideas on Species and Speciation," in Mark B. Adams, ed., The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky (Princeton Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 31-48; "The 'KR Affair': Soviet Science on the Threshold of the Cold War," History and Philosophy of Life Sciences, 1995, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 419-446; "A 'Second Front' in Soviet Genetics: the International Dimension of the Lysenko Controversy," Journal of the History of Biology, 1996, vol. 29, no 2, pp. 229-250.

• Trude Maurer is Professor of East European and Modern History (außerplanmäßige Professorin) at the University of Göttingen. Her research interests include the social history of late Imperial Russia, the comparative history of education, and Jewish history. She is currently working on a comparative history of Russian and German universities during World War I. Her publications include Hochschullehrer im Zarenreich. Ein Beitrag zur russischen Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte (1998); Bildung, Wissenschaft in Studienhandbuch Östliches Europa, vol. 2: Geschichte des Russischen Reiches und der Sowjetunion (ed. Th. M. Bohn, D. Neutatz, 2002); "National oder supranational? Prag und Czernowitz – zwei deutsche Universitäten in Ostmitteleuropa (1875/1882-1914)," Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 49 (2000); "Novyj podchod k social’noj istorii universiteta: kollektivnaja biografija professorov," in Iz istorii russkoj intelligencii (2003); "Der Krieg der Professoren. Russische Reaktionen auf den deutschen Aufruf 'An die Kulturwelt'," Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 1 (2004).

• Michael Meo is a teacher and head of department of mathematics at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Oregon. His publications in the history of Russian astronomy include articles in the forthcoming Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomy and in upcoming volumes of the Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History. He is preparing for publication a translation of the only archive-based biography of the leading 19th-century Russian astronomer Friedrich G.W. Struve.

• Wim van Meurs is Senior analyst for the Bertelsmann Group for Policy Research at the Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich. His interests lie in the history of Soviet science, especially, social sciences (ethnography and linguistics), and historiography. He is the author of two forthcoming publications: "Ethnographie in der UdSSR: Akademiker, Institutionen und Forschungsgegenst" [Ethnography in the USSR: Academicians, Institutions and Subject Matter], in Inszenierung des Nationalen [Setting the Stage for the National]. Edited by B. Binder and P. Niedermüller (1997); "Die Sprachtheorie von Nikolaj Marr: Zwischen Wissenschaft und Wahnsinn" [Nikolai Marr's Theory of Language: Science or Insanity?] in Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Osteuropa [The History of Science in Eastern Europe]. Edited by J. Petersdorf and A. Henning (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997).

• Scott W. Palmer is Associate Professor of History at Western Illinois University. A specialist on the history of modern Russian culture and technology, he is author of Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His current research project, "Forging Colossus: Monumentality, Modernity, and the Soviet Built Environment" examines how created spaces, their attendant political symbolism, and their subsequent representation played an integral role in defining Russian modernity and influencing broader European trends between the years 1917-1991.

• Ethan Pollock is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. After receiving a B.A. from Tufts University in 1991, he moved to Moscow, Russia, where he taught history while witnessing first-hand the stunning transformations taking place in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. He received his Ph.D. in Russian and Soviet history from UC Berkeley in 2000. His book, Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars, examines Soviet politics, science, and ideology during the last years of Joseph Stalin's life and the first years of the Cold War. His current research on the Russian bathhouse – or bania – explores questions of public and private space, sexuality, hygiene, and the body in the context of social and political upheaval and change.

• Yakov Rabkin is Professor of the History of Science, Department of History, University of Montreal. Current interests: comparative history of science in totalitarian societies, scientists in the transition from Communist rule, scientific ethos in the USSR. Publications on the subject include: Yakov M Rabkin, Science between Superpowers, New York: Priority Press, 1988; Yakov M Rabkin, ed., Diffusion of New Technologies in Central & Eastern Europe, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997, and about twenty articles.

• Sumitra Rajagopalan is a science writer and a Ph.D candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Montréal. A graduate from the St. Petersburg State University, she has been a long time-observer of Russian science. To date her articles on Russian science have been published in prominent Russian, Indian and Canadian newspapers. Her research interests include Russian science education, Russian science policy, and commercialization of Russian technology. She recently co-authored an article entitled "Russian science: Between Heaven and Earth" with Dr. Yakov Rabkin.

• Nils Roll-Hansen is professor of history and philosophy of science in the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo. His specialty is history and philosophy of biology. He has published on history of classical genetics, history of eugenics, history plant breeding, interaction of environmental science and politics, reductionism in biology, etc. Main books are Eugenics and the Welfare State (1997), edited with Gunnar Broberg, and The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science (Humanities Press, 2005).

• Kirill Rossianov is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology in Moscow. His research interests include social and cultural history of Soviet and Russian science; history of genetics, anthropology, and primatology in the twentieth century; and history of animal experimentation and animal ethics. He is the author of "Beyond Species: Ilya Ivanov and His Experiments on Cross-Breeding Humans with Anthropoid Apes," Science in Context 15 (2002); "Editing Nature: Joseph Stalin and the 'New' Soviet Biology," ISIS 84 (1993), and several other articles in Russian and English.

• Asif Siddiqi is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. His interests include the social and cultural dimensions of the history of Russian science and technology. He is the author of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 (republished in two volumes in 2003 by the University Press of Florida). He is currently finishing a book on the social and cultural history of spaceflight in 19th and 20th century Russia and also editing the four-volume memoirs of Academician B. E. Chertok for publication in English.

• Sonja Schmid is a a research associate with the Center for International Security and Cooperation and a lecturer with the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. She has defended a doctoral dissertation on the Soviet civilian nuclear program, focusing in particular on reactor design choices. Her other research interests include risk communication, popularization of science and technology, and the relationship between science, technology, and the state. She is the author of "Transformation Discourse: Nuclear Risk as a Strategic Tool in Late Soviet Politics of Expertise," Science, Technology & Human Values 29 (2004); and "Celebrating Tomorrow Today: The Peaceful Atom on Display in the Soviet Union," Social Studies of Science 36 (2006).

• Susan Smith-Peter is assistant professor at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Her research interests include the history of early Russian statistics. She has published an article "Russkaia statistika pervoi poloviny XIX v. v obshcheevropeiskom kontekste," in Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekniki 4 (2005), and another article, entitled "Konstantin Arsen'ev and Russian Statistics, 1800-1848," is forthcoming in History of Science.

• Susan Gross Solomon is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her interests include Soviet politics and society, political and social theory, history and philosophy of social science. Recent publications: The Soviet Agrarian Debate: Controversy in Social Science 1923-1929 (1978); The Social Context of Soviet Science (ed. with Linda Lubrano, 1980); Pluralism in the Soviet Union (ed., 1983); Health and Society in Revolutionary Russia (ed. with John F. Hutchinson, Indiana University Press, 1989). Currently finishing a book entitled Caring for the Body Politic on the history of social medicine in the USSR, 1921-36; and beginning another entitled The Odd Couple on Soviet-German medical relations in the interwar period.

• Daniel P. Todes is Professor in the Department of History of Science, Medicine and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University. Among his publications are Pavlov's Physiology Factory (Johns Hopkins University, 2002); "V. O. Kovalevskii: The Genesis, Content, and Reception of His Paleontological Work," Studies in History of Biology 2 (1978): 99-165; Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought (Oxford UP, 1989); "Pavlov and the Bolsheviks," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 17 (1995): 379-418; and "Pavlov's Physiology Factory, 1891-1904," Isis 88:2 (June 1997): 205-246. He is currently completing a biography of Ivan Pavlov.

• Steven Uusitalo, a doctoral candidate in the department of history at McGill University in Montreal, is working on a dissertation tentatively titled " Lomonosov: The Creation of The Myth." He is currently completing an article, "Lomonosov and the Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy."

• Douglas Weiner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arizona and, according to the Russian ultranationalist newspaper Zavtra, one of the people chiefly responsible for the downfall of the Soviet Union. Among his teaching and research interests are Russian and Soviet history, environmental history and the history of science. He is the author of Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1988; the Russian edition, 1991) and A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1999).

• Simon Werrett is assistant professor in the history of science in the History Department of the University of Washington, Seattle. He recently completed a one-year fellowship at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, pursuing research on relations between the sciences and pyrotechnics in eighteenth-century Russia. His interests include history of the sciences and mechanical culture in eighteenth-century Russia, and relations between Russian arts, sciences, and media. Formerly a fellow of the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin and a graduate of Cambridge University, Werrett's thesis, "An Odd Sort of Exhibition: the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in Enlightened Russia," examined the integration of the sciences into Russian courtly, economic, and political culture during the first half of the eighteenth century.

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