Current Member
Asif Siddiqi
Funding provided by the Hetty Goldman Membership Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
History of Science and Technology
Home institution
Fordham University
Asif A. Siddiqi is a historian of modern science and technology. While at IAS, he will work on "Departure Gates: Postcolonial Histories of Space on Earth," which explores the considerable infrastructural imprint of spaceflight activities on the physical and social geography of our home planet, often manifest in damage and displacement.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D.
2004
Texas A&M University
B.S.
1989
Honors
2025-2026
National Endowment of Humanities (NEH) Fellowship
2021-2022
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University
2015-2016
Long-Term Fellow, Huntington Library
2015
Guggenheim Fellowship
2013-2014
Charles Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, National Air & Space Museum
Appointments
Fordham University
2013
Professor of History
Fordham University
2010–2013
Associate Professor of History
Fordham University
2005–2010
Assistant Professor of History