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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930, deal with the intersections of culture
and economics in U.S. international relations. Her most recent book, A Date
Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (also translated into Japanese),
examines the issue of collective historical memory in a media age. She is a coauthor
of Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (5th ed., 2007). She has
served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
(SHAFR); an editor of the Oxford Companion to United States History; a board
member of the Organization of American Historians; and coedits the American
Encounters, Global Interactions book series for Duke University Press.
Asif A. Siddiqi is assistant professor of history at Fordham University in New
York. He specializes in the social and cultural history of technology and modern
Russian history. His forthcoming book, The Rockets’ Red Glare: Spacefight and
the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) is the
frst archive-based study on the social, cultural, and technological forces that
made Sputnik possible.
Michael Soluri is a New York City-based photographer. His work has been
published in editorial magazines like Wired, Time, Discover, BBC Horizons,
and GEO, as well as in corporate, institutional, and nonproft multimedia
communications. He is a contributing editor and photographer for Discover,
Space.Com and Ad Astra. Profled in Photo District News and on Space.Com
for his expertise in the photography and editing of human and robotic space
exploration, he has lectured at the Smithsonian Institute and at the National
Science Foundation. In an 18-month photographic documentation of the
last service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, Soluri secured exclusive
access to the integration of fight hardware, EVA tools, engineering personnel,
and the crew of SM4 that resulted in the frst creatively controlled portrait
session of an astronaut crew in more than 25 years. He was also invited by the
crew to present a photo seminar on making more communicative, insightful
photographs during their historic mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. In
addition, since 2005, Soluri has been following and documenting the project
scientists and technicians with NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and
the Kuiper Belt. Currently published in eight languages, Soluri is coauthor and
picture editor of What’s Out There—Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe
and Cosmos—Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe, for which he secured
Stephen Hawking to write these books’ forewords. He was a contributing editor
for The History of Space Travel, a special edition of Discover commemorating 50
years of spacefight. A former professor of photographic studies at the Rochester
Institute of Technology, Soluri is currently adjunct faculty at Pratt Institute in
New York City. He holds an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute
of Technology.