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Paul Josephson, currently chair of the History Department, has also chaired the International Studies and STS Programs. He is a specialist in the history of big science and technology in the 20th century. His early work concerned the history of Soviet physics He has turned more recently to the history of technology and environmental history in a comparative approach focusing on Russia, Ukraine, the U. S., Northern Europe, and Brazil. His most recent book is a history of recreational machines in postwar North America. Paul has two books in moving toward publication. One is a biography of Zhores Alferov, Russian Nobel laureate in Physics in 2001. The other is a collection of essays on technology under socialism entitled WOULD TROTSKY WEAR A BLUETOOTH?

Paul has run sixty marathons, loves to travel, and enjoys the outdoors. His hobbies include construction and sports.

Josephson is currently working on an NSF-funded project on the history of the conquest of the Russian north during Soviet power, 1930-1990.

Motorized Obsession: Life, Liberty and the Small Bore Engine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

Resources Under RegimesCambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Industrialized NatureWashington, DC: Island Press, 2002.

Red Atom,New York: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1999.

New Atlantis Revisited: The Siberian City of Science, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Totalitarian Science and Technology, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1996.

Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.