Anna Doel

As a historian of science, Dr. Anna Doel’s scholarly interests are Cold War intellectual communication, scientific internationalism, and the history of earth and environmental sciences. Armed with an undergraduate degree in languages and intercultural communication from the Moscow State Linguistic University and knowledge of the Soviet/Russian academic system, Anna explored U.S.-Soviet scientific contacts in the earth sciences. She received a doctorate in the history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota, where her innovative research in archives, grey literature, photographic images, and first-hand accounts from the American and Russian sides of the Cold War came together in a dissertation, “A Common Language of the Earth.” She continues to explore the unlikely ties between Soviet and American scientists, engineers, and humanities scholars in a book project. At AIP, Anna’s research focuses on the faces and voices of global science in history and today—to highlight and bring into historians’ discussions the multinational, multicultural communities in the physical sciences. She works to promote the power of oral history as a living archive and its applications as a research tool and a memory preservation strategy in the history of science. An important part of Anna’s professional life is collaboration with historians and scientists across disciplines.