RECENT BOOKS

I just published, in September 2022, an edited book under the title One-Track Mind: Technology, Capitalism, and the Art of the Pop Song, which was published in the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series by Routledge. More information about the book and ordering details can be found here.

RECENT PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Asif Siddiqi, “The Materiality of Secrets: Everyday Secrecy in Postwar Soviet Union,” Continuity and Change 38, no. 1 (2023): 75-97.

Asif Siddiqi, “Soviet Secrecy: Toward a Social Map of Knowledge,” American Historical Review 126, no. 3 (2021): 1046-1071.

Asif Siddiqi, “Shaping the World: Soviet-African Technologies from the Sahel to the Cosmos,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 41, no. 2 (2021): 41-55.

Asif Siddiqi, “Atomized Urbanism: Secrecy and Security from the Gulag to the Soviet Closed Cities,” Urban History (2021): 1-21.

Asif A. Siddiqi, “Whose India? SITE and the origins of satellite television in India,” History and Technology 36, nos. 3-4 (2020): 452-474.

RECENT ON-LINE ESSAYS

Asif Siddiqi, “A Brief Guide to Russian Space Movies,” Air & Space (Smithsonian), April 9, 2021.

Asif Siddiqi, “Transcending Gravity: The View from Postcolonial Dhaka to Colonies in Space,” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 12, 2020.

Asif Siddiqi, “Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 28, 2019.

Asif Siddiqi, “Apollo, in context,” Science, July 19, 2019.

Asif Siddiqi, “Why the Soviets Lost the Moon Race,” Air & Space (Smithsonian), June/July 2019.

Asif Siddiqi, “The extraordinary, death-defying life of Alexei Leonov,” Physics Today, November 14, 2019.

Asif Siddiqi, “Russia’s Space Program is Struggling Mightily,” Slate.com, March 21, 2017.

Asif Siddiqi, “Silver Bird,” The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, August 18, 2016.

RECENT PODCAST APPEARANCES

Guest on The Economist’s Babbage podcast, “Why the lunar South Sole is the latest focus in the new space race,” August 16, 2023.

Guest on The Last Soviet, 8-episode podcast on iHeartRadio, February 8 to April 12, 2023.

Guest on The Russia File podcast of the Kennan Institute, the Wilson Center on “Rethinking the Space Race,” April 26, 2021.

Guest on NewsSpace India, “A space historian’s perspective of the early days of Indian space activities,” November 6, 2020.

Guest on Mission ISRO series, Spotify Studios, August-November 2020.

Guest on “Nine Days in July” podcast on iHeartRadio, December 2019 to February 2020.

Guest on “Space Policy Edition: The Soviet Moonshot” episode of the Planetary Radio podcast, June 7, 2019. [scroll up to the top]