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Asif Azam SIDDIQI

Fordham University, New York, USA

Email: siddiqi@fordham.edu

Personal URL: www.asifsiddiqi.com

Scopus Author ID: 23669308900

PhD in History, Professor, Faculty Member, Department of History, Fordham University

Research interests:

history of science, history of technology, history of cosmonautics

Membership in scientific associations:

  • History of Science Society (HSS), member
  • Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), member
  • American Association of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), member
  • American Historical Association (AHA), member

Membership in the editorial boards of other journals:

  • “Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly” (Bethesda, Maryland, USA), editorial board member

Co-editor of two book series:

  • “Studies in the History of Technology” published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, USA,
  • “Technology in Motion” published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, USA

Publications in the subject area of the journal “Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki” [“Studies in the History of Science and Technology”]:

  • Atomized Urbanism: Secrecy and Security from the Gulag to the Soviet Closed Cities, Urban History, 2022, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 190-210. DOI: 10.1017/S0963926820000796
  • Soviet Secrecy: Toward a Social Map of Knowledge, American Historical Review, 2021, vol. 126, no. 3, pp. 1046-1071. DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhab401
  • Shaping the World: Soviet-African Technologies from the Sahel to the Cosmos, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 2021, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 41-55.
  • Whose India? SITE and the Origins of Satellite Television in India, History and Technology, 2020, vol. 36, nos. 3-4, pp. 452-474. DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2020.1864118
  • Dispersed Sites: San Marco and the Launch from Kenya, in: Krige, J. (ed.). How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 175-200. DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226606040.003.0007
  • Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration. Washington, DC: NASA History Office, 2018. https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/beyond_earth_detail.html
  • Another Space: Global Science and the Cosmic Detritus of the Cold War, in: Alonso, P.I. (ed.). Space Race Archaeologies: Photographs, Biographies, and Design. Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2016. Pp. 187-207.
  • Tsiolkovskii and the Invention of ‘Russian Cosmism’: Science, Mysticism and the Conquest of Nature at the Birth of the Soviet Space Program, in: Smith, S.A., Betts, P. (eds). Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. 127-156.
  • Another Global History of Science: Making Space for India and China, British Journal for the History of Science: Themes, 2016, vol. 1, pp. 115-143. DOI: 10.1017/bjt.2016.4
  • Science, Geography and Nation: The Global Creation of Thumba, History and Technology, 2015, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 420-451. DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2015.1134886
  • Scientists and Specialists in the Gulag: Life and Death in Stalin’s Sharashka, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2015, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 557-588. DOI: 10.1353/kri.2015.0049
  • Making Space for the Nation: Satellite Television, Indian Scientific Elites and the Cold War, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 2015, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 35-49. DOI: 10.1215/1089201X-2876080
  • Fighting Each Other: The N-1, Soviet Big Science, and the Cold War at Home, in: Oreskes, N., Krige, J. (eds). Science and Technology in the Global Cold War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. 189-225. DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027953.003.0006

Contact information:

441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, New York 10458, USA

+1 (718) 817-3939

Email: siddiqi@fordham.edu

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