James Andrews CEAH Director
July 2010 - June 2013
James T. Andrews, full professor of Modern Russian and Comparative Eurasian
history at Iowa State University, has been named director of the Center for
Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, effective August 2010 through June
2013.
Dr. Andrews holds a Ph.D. in Modern Russian history from the University of
Chicago, and has taught as a visiting professor at several research
institutions including the University of Texas at Austin. He is the
recipient of numerous teaching awards on campus, and was awarded in 2006
the Iowa States Provosts Council Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award. He
is the author of
Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii and the Mythology of Soviet
Rocketry (2009) and
Science for the Masses: The Bolshevik State, Public
Science, and the Popular Imagination in Soviet Russia, 1917-34 (2003). He
is co-editor of
Space Exploration and Soviet Culture (Forthcoming, 2011) and
editor of
Maksim Gor'kii, Science, and Revolution (1995). He has delivered
lectures and papers globally on his research and books, including Japan,
Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and in Russian in various parts
of the former Soviet Union. Since the summer of 1995, he has been affiliated
as a senior research associate with the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute for the History of the Natural Sciences and Technology in Moscow
and St. Petersburg. He has worked extensively in Communist Party, Russian
state and provincial archives for over twenty years.
Dr. Andrews has served as a senior faculty facilitator for the Social
Science Research Council in New York City, the Canadian Federal Humanities &
Social Science Council, as well as a variety of international centers such
as the Hokkaido University Eurasian Studies Center in Northern Japan. He has
been the recipient of a variety of distinguished research fellowships that
include Fulbright-Hays, International Research Exchange Board and the Social
Science Research Council. Given his experience with grants organizations, he
hopes to cultivate the collaborative and individual grant potential of
faculty in the Colleges of LAS and Design, as well as promote the research
of Iowa State professors in those areas both within and outside ISU.
Director of CEAH Invited to Adler Planetarium
Dr. Andrews, was invited by the Adler Planetarium, co-sponsored by the
Chicago Sister-Cities Program & Mayor's Office, to moderate the entire day's
proceedings, which meant interviewing cosmonauts, fielding questions by the
press on the history of Soviet spaceflight, and giving a public presentation
on the significance of Gagarin's flight fifty years later. Andrews, signed
his recent books
Red Cosmos (2009) and
Into the Cosmos (2011)
at the event as seen below. Andrews has recently been interviewed on NPR
and BBC affiliates this past Spring, as well as Voice of America television,
regarding the significance of the 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight. In
November, he has been invited back to the Smithsonian Institution, his third
time, to present on his newest book on the history of the Moscow Metro. His
books have been featured at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington
D.C.
Dr. James Andrews (pictured above) at his book
signing featuring his books Red Cosmos (2009) and Into the
Cosmos (2011).
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