Faculty

James T. Andrews

Associate Professor
Co-Director
History of Technology and Science Program

645 Ross Hall
Dept. of History
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-3828
Email: andrewsj@iastate.edu
Website: www.history.iastate.edu/andrews3.shtml

James T. Andrews is an associate professor of Modern Russian and Comparative European history in the department of history at Iowa State University (ISU), where he is Director of ISU's Ph.D. Program and Center for the Historical Studies of Technology and Science. At ISU, he has also been Director of Russian, East European, & Central Asian Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in History.

He holds a Ph.D. in Modern Russian/Soviet history from the University of Chicago, and has taught as a visiting professor at several research institutions including the University of Texas at Austin. 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.

Dr. Andrews has also been a senior faculty facilitator for the Social Science Research Council in New York City. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards on campus, and was awarded in 2006 ISU's Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award, one of the highest distinctions for tenured faculty, awarded by the President's office, for graduate and undergraduate career achievement in teaching amongst all five-colleges of the university.

Professor Andrews' books and numerous articles have analyzed the intersection of science/technology, society, and public culture in Modern Russia and in a comparative Eurasian framework. He is the author of Science for the Masses: The Bolshevik State, Public Science, and the Popular Imagination, 1917-34 (2003), and editor of Maksim Gor'kii Revisited: Science, Academics and Revolution (1995). His newest book, to be published on Texas's University Press, is entitled Visions of Space Flight: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian Popular Culture, and the Mythology of Soviet Cosmonautics, 1857-1957 (Forthcoming, 2008). He is also currently completing another book (a synthetic historical essay) entitled Science and the Public Sphere: Technology, Science, and European Public Culture, 1543-Present.