Michael Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University, where he specializes in the history of modern science. During academic year 2020-21 he is Acting Chair of Princeton’s History Department. In 2013-4 he served as the inaugural director of the Fung Global Fellows Program. He came to Princeton in 2003 after earning his A.B. (1996) and his Ph.D. (2001) from Harvard University, and serving a term at the Harvard Society of Fellows. In 2011 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2019, he was elected as a member of the Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences of Germany. He has published on the history of science, Russian history, and nuclear weapons.