Anna Doel

I am applying for an Emanuel fellowship in 2025 to gain access to needed historical sources and to write a new section of a “dissertation-to-book” project on Cold War history of science; to complete a full draft of the book; receive comments from colleagues; and have the manuscript ready for submission to an academic press by the end of 2025. My dissertation explored the history of an unlikely partnership: American-Soviet inter-academy exchanges and collaboration in the earth sciences during the Cold War. New evidence led me to understand that governmental and institutional support on the one hand—and the professional engagement and personal involvement of immediate participants from both countries (core-level researchers) on the other—accounted for scientific productivity and longevity of these contacts. Recent findings uncovered other facets of U.S.-Soviet intellectual dialogue: contacts and joint research projects outside inter-academy exchanges and interactions in social sciences and humanities.