PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
RUSSIAN COSMIC CULTURE
1/ “Tsiolkovskii and the Invention of ‘Russian Cosmism’: Science, Mysticism, and the Conquest of Nature at the Birth of Soviet Space Exploration.” In Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe, eds. Stephen A. Smith and Paul Betts, 127-156. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
2/ “Cosmic Contradictions: Popular Enthusiasm and Secrecy in the Soviet Space Program.” In Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture, eds. James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi, 47-76. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
3/ (co-authored with James T. Andrews) “Introduction: Space Exploration in the Soviet Context.” In Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture, eds. James T. Andrews and Asif A. Siddiqi, 1-12. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
4/ “From Cosmic Enthusiasm to Nostalgia for the Future.” In Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies, eds. Eva Maurer, Julia Richers, Monica Rüthers, and Carmen Scheide, 283-306. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
5/ “Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary Russia.” In Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 23 (Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960), eds. Michael D. Gordin, Karl Hall, and Alexei B. Kojevnikov, 260-288. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
6/ “Making Spaceflight Modern: A Cultural History of the World’s First Space Advocacy Group.” In The Societal Impact of Spaceflight, eds. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 513-537. Washington, DC: NASA History Division, 2007.
7/ “Наука за стенами академии: К. Э. Циолковский и его альтернативная сеть неформальной научной коммуникации”, Вопросы истории естествознания и техники no. 4 (2005): 137-154. [“Science Beyond the Academy: K. E. Tsiolkovskii and His Alternative Discursive Networks,” Problems in the History of Natural Sciences and Technology no. 4 (2005): 137-154.]
8/ “Privatising Memory: The Soviet Space Programme Through Museums and Memoirs.” In Showcasing Space: Artefacts Series: Studies in the History of Science and Technology, eds. Martin Collins and Douglas Millard, 98-115. London: The Science Museum, 2005.
9/ “Deep Impact: Robert Goddard and the Soviet ‘Space Fad’ of the 1920s.” History and Technology 20, no. 2 (2004): 97-113.
SOVIET SCIENCE
1/ “Fighting Each Other: The N-1, Soviet Big Science, and the Cold War at Home.” In Science and Technology in the Global Cold War, eds. Naomi Oreskes and John Krige, 189-225. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.
2/ “Germans in Russia: Cold War, Technology Transfer and National Identity.” In Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 24 (Science and National Identity), eds. Carol E. Harrison and Ann Johnson, 120-143. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
3/ “Sputnik 50 Years Later: New Evidence on its origins.” Acta Astronautica 63 (2008): 529-539.
4/ “Soviet Space Power During the Cold War.” In Harnessing the Heavens: National Defense Through Space, eds. Paul G. Gillespie and Grant T. Weller, 135-150. Colorado Springs: United States Air Force Academy, 2008.
5/ “Russians in Germany: Founding the Postwar Missile Programme.” Europe-Asia Studies 56, no. 8 (2004): 1131-1156.
6/ “The Rockets’ Red Glare: Technology, Conflict, and Terror in the Soviet Union.” Technology and Culture 44, no. 3 (2003): 470-501.
7/ “Korolev, Sputnik, and the International Geophysical Year.” In Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite, eds. Roger D. Launius, John M. Logsdon, and Robert W. Smith, 43-72. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000.
STALINIST GULAG
1/ “Scientists and Specialists in the Gulag: Life and Death in Stalin’s Sharashka.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 16, no. 3 (2015): 557-588.
SECRECY and CLOSED CITIES (ZATOs)
1/ “Soviet Secrecy: Toward a Social Map of Knowledge,” American Historical Review 126, no. 3 (2021): 1046-1071.
2/ “Atomized urbanism: secrecy and security from the Gulag to the Soviet closed cities.” Urban History, 1-21, doi:10.1017/S0963926820000796.
SOUTH ASIA AND POSTCOLONIAL SCIENCE
1/ “Whose India? SITE and the origins of satellite television in India.” History and Technology 36, nos. 3-4 (2020): 452-74.
2/ “Technology in the South Asian Imaginary.” History and Technology 31, no. 4 (2015): 341-349.
3/ “Science, Geography and Nation: The Global Creation of Thumba.” History and Technology 31, no. 4 (2015): 420-451.
4/ “Making Space for the Nation: Satellite Television, Indian Scientific Elites, and the Cold War.” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 35, no. 1 (2015): 35-49.
GLOBAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
1/ “Shaping the World: Soviet-African Technologies from the Sahel to the Cosmos.” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 41, no. 1 (2021): 41-55.
2/ “Dispersed Sites: San Marco and the Launch from Kenya.” In How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology, ed. John Krige, 175-200. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
3/ “Another Space: Global Science and the Cosmic Detritus of the Cold War.” In Space Race Archaeologies: Photographs, Biographies, and Design, ed. Pedro Ignacio Alonso, 21-38. Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2016.
4/ “Another Global History of Science: Making Space for China and India.” British Journal for the History of Science: Themes 1 (2016): 116-143.
5/ “Competing Technologies: National(ist) Narratives, and Universal Claims: Towards a Global History of Space Exploration.” Technology and Culture 51, no. 2 (2010): 425-443.
6/ “An Asian Space Race: Hype or Reality?.” In South Asia at a Crossroads: Conflict or Cooperation in the Age of Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, and Space Rivalries, eds. Subrata Ghoshroy and Goetz Neuneck, 184-198. Berlin: Nomos Publishers, 2010.
7/ “Asia in Orbit: Asian Cooperation in Space.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 11, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2010): 131-139.
8/ “Spaceflight in the National Imagination.” In Remembering the Space Age, ed. Steven J. Dick, 17-35. Washington, DC: NASA History Division, 2009.
POPULAR MUSIC
1/ “M.I.A. - Paper Planes.” In One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Song, ed. Asif A. Siddiqi. Routledge, forthcoming.
2/ “Technology, Transcultural Idioms, and the Question of Authenticity: Brian Eno and David Byrne in the Studio.” In Creativity: Technology and Music, eds., Hans-Joachim Braun with Susan Schmidt-Horning, 187-207. New York: Peter Lang, 2016.
U.S. SPACE HISTORY
1/ “American Space History: Legacies, Questions, and Opportunities for Further Research.” In Critical Issues in Space History, eds. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, 433-480. Washington, DC: NASA History Division, 2006.