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Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE MICHAEL JOHN NEUFELD Space History Division (MRC 311) office: (202) 633-2434 National Air and Space Museum fax: (202) 786-2947 Smithsonian Institution [email protected] P.O. Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 EDUCATION 1970-74 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. B.A.(First Class Honours), History. 1974-76 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. M.A., History. 1978-84 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. M.A., Ph.D., History. Dissertation: "From Artisans to Workers: The Transformation of the Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg, 1835-1905." RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS 1983-85 Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York. Part-time Assistant Professor (1984-85), Part-time Instructor (1983-84). 1985-86 State University of New York College at Oswego. Visiting Assistant Professor. 1986-88 Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Visiting Assistant Professor. 1988- National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Senior Curator (2014- ), Museum Curator, (1999-2014), Chair, Space History Division (2007-11), Museum Curator in Aeronautics Division (1990-99), Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow and NSF Fellow (1989-90), A. Verville Fellow (1988-89). Fall 2001 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Senior Lecturer (visiting position). BOOKS The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial Revolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press, 1995. (Paperback edition, Harvard University Press, 1996; German translation, Brandenburgisches Verlagshaus, 1997, 2nd ed. Henschel Verlag, 1999; paperback and e-book edition, March 2015 2 Smithsonian Books, 2013). Winner of the 1995 AIAA History Manuscript Award and the 1997 SHOT Dexter Prize. Editor, Planet Dora: A Memoir of the Holocaust and the Origins of the Space Age, by Yves Béon. With an Introduction by myself, "Mittelbau-Dora: Secret Weapons and Slave Labor." Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. Editor, with Michael Berenbaum. The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? Published in association with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Paperback edition: Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003. Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. (Winner of the 2008 OAH Leopold Prize, 2008 Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize, and the American Astronautical Society’s 2007 Eugene M. Emme Award.) Paperback edition: New York: Vintage, 2008. Translated as Von Braun: Krigsingeniør og rumfartsvisionær (Copenhagen: Schønberg, 2009), Wernher von Braun: Visionär des Weltraums—Ingenieur des Krieges (Munich: Siedler, 2009), and Von Braun: Inżynier Nazistów i Amerykanów (Warsaw: Świat Ksiązki, 2011). Editor, with Alex M Spencer. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2010. Editor, Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013. Editor, Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis, MN: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in association with Zenith Press, 2014. SCHOLARLY ARTICLES "German Artisans and Political Repression: The Fall of the Journeymen's Associations in Nuremberg, 1806-1868," Journal of Social History 19 (Spring 1986), 491-502. "Weimar Culture and Futuristic Technology: The Rocketry and Spaceflight Fad in Germany, 1923-1933." Technology and Culture 31 (Oct. 1990), 725- 752. "Hitler, the V-2, and the Battle for Priority, 1939-1943." The Journal of Military History 57 (July 1993), 511-538. "The Guided Missile and the Third Reich: Peenemünde and the Forging of a Technological Revolution." In Science, Technology and National Socialism, March 2015 3 edited by Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker, 51-71, 352-356 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). "Der soziale und kulturelle Kontext der Raketen- und Raumfahrtbewegung in der Weimarer Republik." In Vernichtung durch Fortschritt: Am Beispiel der Raketenproduktion im Konzentrationslager Mittelbau, edited by Torsten Heß and Thomas A. Seidel, 19-31 (Bad Münstereifel: Westkreuz-Verlag, 1995). "Rolf Engel vs. the German Army: A Nazi Career in Rocketry and Repression." History and Technology 13 (1996), 53-72. "The Excluded: Hermann Oberth and Rudolf Nebel in the Third Reich." Quest 5 (1996), 22-27. Also published in History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, ed. by Donald C. Elder and Christophe Rothmund (San Diego: Univelt, Inc., for the American Astronautical Society, 2001), 209-222. "Heylandt's Rocket Cars and the V-2: A Little Known Chapter in the History of Rocket Technology." With Frank H. Winter. In History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth History Symposium of the International Academy of Astronautics, ed. by Phillipe Jung (San Diego: Univelt, Inc., for the American Astronautical Society, 1997), 41-72. "Rocket Aircraft and the `Turbojet Revolution': The Luftwaffe's Quest for High-Speed Flight, 1935-1939." In Innovation and the Development of Flight, edited by Roger D. Launius (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999), 207-234. “German Spaceflight Advocacy from Weimar to Disney.” In 1998 National Aerospace Conference Proceedings (Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University, 1999), 72-76. "The Reichswehr, the Rocket and the Versailles Treaty: A Popular Myth Reexamined." Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 53 (May/June 2000), 163-172. "Orbiter, Overflight and the First U.S. Satellite: New Light on the Vanguard Decision." In Reconsidering Sputnik, edited by Roger D. Launius, John M. Logsdon, and Robert W. Smith (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), 231-57. “Overcast, Paperclip, Osoaviakhim: Plünderung und Transfer deutscher Militärtechnologie.” In Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des Kalten Krieges 1945-1990: Ein Handbuch, edited by Detlef Junker March 2015 4 (Stuttgart/Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001), I:306-16. Republished as “Overcast, Paperclip, Osoaviakhim: Looting and the Transfer of German Military Technology” in The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-2000, edited by Detlef Junker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), I:197-203. “Wernher von Braun, the SS and Concentration Camp Labor: Questions of Moral, Political and Criminal Responsibility.” German Studies Review 25 (February 2002), 57-78; “Response to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger” in “Wernher von Braun and Concentration Camp Labor: An Exchange,” German Studies Review 26 (February 2003), 122-26. “Braun, Wernher von,” in Lexikon bedeutender Naturwissenschaftler, edited by Dieter Hoffmann, et al. (Heidelberg: Spektrum, 2003), I:243-49. “Peenemünde, die Rakete and der NS-Staat,” and “Das Erbe von Peenemünde in den Vereinigten Staaten,” In Peenemünde: Mythos und Geschichte der Rakete 1936-1989, edited by Johannes Erichsen and Bernhard M. Hoppe (Berlin: Nikolai, 2004), 35-42, 79-86. “Die Peenemünder Raketeningenieure und die Entwicklung ballistischer Raketen in den USA.” In Raketenrüstung und internationale Sicherheit von 1942 bis heute, edited by Thomas Stamm-Kühlmann and Reinhard Wolf (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 2004), 29-38. “The End of the Army Space Program: Interservice Rivalry and the Transfer of the Von Braun Group to NASA, 1958-1959.” Journal of Military History 69 (July 2005), 737-57. “‘Space Superiority’: Wernher von Braun’s Campaign for a Nuclear-Armed Space Station, 1946-1956.” Space Policy 22 (March 2006), 57-62. “Wernher von Braun’s Ultimate Weapon.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 63, no. 4 (July/August 2007), 50-57, 78. (Abridged version of “‘Space Superiority’.”) “Von Braun and the Lunar-Orbit-Rendezvous Decision: Finding a Way to Go to the Moon.” Acta Astronautica 63 (July-Aug. 2008), 540-50. “Wernher von Braun, Science, Technology and Defense Policy in Germany and the United States, 1932-1977.” In Who is Making Science? Scientists as Makers of Technical-Scientific Structures and Administrators of Science Policy, edited by Albert Presas i Puig, 63-75. Preprint 361. Berlin: Max- Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2008. March 2015 5 “Creating a Memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War.” In Remembering the Space Age, edited by Steven J. Dick (Washington, DC: NASA, 2008), 71-87. “The ‘Von Braun Paradigm’ and NASA’s Long-Term Planning for Human Spaceflight.” In NASA’s First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives, edited by Steven J. Dick (Washington, DC: NASA, 2010), 325-47. “Space Artifact or Nazi Weapon? Displaying the Smithsonian’s V-2 Missile, 1976-2011.” Co-authored with David H. DeVorkin. Endeavour, 35 (2011), 187-195. “‘Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron’: East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s,” in Imagining Outer Space, edited by Alexander C. T. Geppert (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 106-26. “The Nazi Aerospace Exodus: Towards a Global, Transnational History,” History and Technology 28 (2012), 49-67. “Was the Rocket Invented or Accidentally Discovered? Some Observations on its Origins.” Co-authored with Frank H. Winter (first author) and Kerrie Dougherty. Acta Astronautica 77 (2012), 131-37. “The Three Heroes of Spaceflight: The Rise of the Tsiolkovsky-Goddard- Oberth Interpretation and Its Current Validity.”
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