Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture

Contributors

317 James T. Andrews is full professor of modern Russian and comparative EurAsian studies in the Department of History at Iowa State University (ISU), where he is director of the University Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (CEAH). At ISU he has also been director of Eurasian Studies and director of the Center for the Historical Studies of Technology and Science. He is the author of Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovsksii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry (2009); Science for the Masses: The Bolshevik State, Public Science, and the Popular Imagination in Soviet Russia, 1917–34 (2003); and editor of Maksim Gor’kii Revisited: Science, Academics, and Revolution (1995). Asif A. Siddiqi is associate professor of history at Fordham University . He specializes in the history of science and technology and modern Russian history. He is the author, most recently, of The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857–1957 (2010). He has published numerous books, articles, and edited volumes on Soviet history and the history of technology. He is also serving as series editor of Contributors 318  Contributors the four-volume English-language memoirs of academician B. E. Chertok , entitled Rockets and People (2005–). Slava Gerovitch is a lecturer in the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in the history of Soviet cosmonautics, computing, and cybernetics with a particular interest in the politics, language, and culture of Cold War science . He is the author of From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (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. Gerovitch is currently working on a book on the technopolitics of automation in the Soviet space program. Heather L. Gumbert is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech. She is the author of “Split Screens: Television in East Germany,” in Screening the Media: Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentiethcentury Germany, edited by Corey Ross (2006). She has also written on debates surrounding the placement and construction of the iconic Berlin television tower. She is currently writing a book, Envisioning Socialism, which examines the ways in which the emergence and growth of television shaped the lives and worldviews of Germans living in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the postwar period. Andrew Jenks is associate professor in the department of history at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Russia in a Box: Art and Identity in an Age of Revolution (2005) and Perils of Progress: Environmental Disasters in the Twentieth Century (2010). He has published articles on a variety of topics in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Environmental History, Technology, and Culture, and Cahiers du Monde Russe. Jenks is now completing a study of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin entitled The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin. Alexei Kojevnikov is associate professor of history of science and Russian/Soviet history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , Canada. His publications in English and Russian include Stalin’s Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists (2004); Rockefeller Philanthropies and Soviet Science (1993) as well as articles in Isis, Contributors  319 Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, Osiris, Russian Review, VIET, and other journals. Kojevnikov also edited Science in Russian Context (a special issue of Science in Context, 2002) and co-edited (with Michael Gordin and Karl Hall) Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860–1960 (a special issue of Osiris, vol. 23, 2008). Cathleen S. Lewis is a curator of International Space Programs and Spacesuits at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum , specializing in Soviet and Russian programs. Her current research is on the history of the public and popular culture of the early years of human spaceflight in the Soviet Union. She has completed degrees in Russian and East European Studies at Yale University and holds a PhD in history from George Washington University. Lewis’s dissertation and current book project is “The Rise and Fall of the Red Stuff: A History of Russian Cosmic Enthusiasm.” Amy Nelson is associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia (2004) and the recipient of the Heldt Prize for the Best Book by a Woman in any...