Paul Josephson, currently chair of the International Studies program, also served as chair of the STS Program from 2003-2006. 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 is now writing a biography of Zhores Alferov, Russian Nobel laureate in Physics in 200.

Paul has run fifty marathons, loves to travel and has an extreme dislike for noisy, highly polluting internal combustion engines, especially those in snowmobiles, personal water craft, ATVs, weedwackers and leafblowers.

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.