Teaching and Research Fields

• Soviet, Russian, and Eurasian History
• Science, Society, and Culture
• History of Modern Science, especially Exact Sciences
• International Nuclear History and the Cold War

Current Projects

• Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution
• Biosocial Boundaries and Cross-Cultural Encounters
• History of Big Bang Cosmology and Quantum Theory

CHORUS — International Colloquium for the History of Russian Science. Program 2020-2023 

Books and Edited Volumes

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Olival Freire Jr, G.Bacciagaluppi, O.Darrigol, T.Hartz, C.Joas, A.Kojevnikov, O.Pessoa eds. Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations. NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.

A.Kojevnikov. The Copenhagen Network: The Birth of Quantum Mechanics from a Postdoctoral Perspective. Berlin: Springer, 2020.

(in Chinese) A.Kojevnikov. Great Science in the Soviet Era.  Beijing: China Science and Technology Press, 2019.

C.Carson, A.Kojevnikov, H.Trischler eds. Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics: Selected Papers by Paul Forman and Contemporary Perspectives on the Forman Thesis. Singapore: World Scientific, 2011.

M.Gordin, K.Hall, A.Kojevnikov eds. Intelligentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960. Vol. 23 of Osiris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

H.Trischler, C.Carson, A.Kojevnikov eds. The Cultural Alchemy of Exact Sciences. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Special issue, vol. 31, # 4 (2008).

A.Kojevnikov. Stalin’s Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. London: Imperial College Press, 2004.

A. Kojevnikov ed. Science in Russian Contexts. Special issue of Science in Context, vol. 15, # 2 (2002).

A.Kojevnikov, ed. Paul Dirac and Igor Tamm. Correspondence. Part I: 1928-1933; Part II: 1933-1936. München: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 1993-1996.

(in Russian) A.B.Kozhevnikov. Rockefeller Philanthropies and Soviet Science. St.Petersburg: MFIN, 1993.

(in Russian) A.B.Kozhevnikov, B.V.Medvedev eds. Paul Dirac and Physics of the 20th Century. Moscow: Nauka, 1990.

Articles in Journals and Books

(in press) C.P. da Silva Neto, A.Kojevnikov. “Socialist Internationalism and Science Diplomacy across the Iron Curtain: Geneva, Dubna, IUPAP.”

(in press) A.Kojevnikov, K. Rossiianov. “Abortions, Eugenics, and Artificial Reproduction in the Soviet Union, 1920-1936.”

A.Kojevnikov. “Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution.” In Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-22, edited by Anthony J. Heywood, Scott W. Palmer, and Julia A. Laius (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2022), 249-280.

A.Kojevnikov. “Quantum Historiography and Cultural History.” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 887-908.

(in Russian) “Niels Bohr, Rockefeller Postdocs, and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics.” Interview for Stimul: The Russian Journal for Innovation (October 2021).

A.Bagdonas, A.Kojevnikov. “Funny Origins of the Big Bang Theory.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2021) 51: 87-137.

C.P. da Silva Neto, A.Kojevnikov. “Convergence in Cold War Physics: Coinventing the Maser in the Postwar Soviet Union.” Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (2019) 42: 375-399.

(in Russian) A.B.Kozhevnikov. “Cultural Materiel of the Big Bang Theory.” Stimul: The Russian Journal for Innovation (Sept 2019).

(in Russian) “Meritocracy, Technocracy, Revolution: The Moments of Engineering Power.” Interview for Stimul: The Russian Journal for Innovation (January 2018).

A.Kojevnikov. “Science as Co-Producer of Soviet Polity.” Historia Scientiarum (2013) 22: 161-180; (also in Japanese) In The General Staff of Science, edited by Hiroshi Ichikawa (Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press, 2016), 125-155.

A.Kojevnikov. “La Investigación Soviética durante la Guerra Fría.” Investigación y ciencia (2014), Número 451: 40-46; “Sowjetische Forschung im Kalten Krieg.” Spektrum der Wissenschaft (2012) # 6: 66-73.

A.Kojevnikov. “Probability, Marxism, and Quantum Ensembles.” Yearbook of the European Culture of Science, 2011 (2012) 6: 211-235.

A.Kojevnikov. “Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov” (essay review). Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (2012) 13: 243-250.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Cultural Spaces of the Soviet Cosmos.” In Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 15-27, 266-286.

A.Kojevnikov. “Die Mobilimachung der sowjetischen Wissenschaft.” In Macht und Geist im kalten Krieg (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2011), 87-107.

A.Kojevnikov. “Philosophical Rhetoric in Early Quantum Mechanics, 1925-1927.” In Weimar Culture and Quantum Mechanics (Singapore: World Scientific, 2011), 319-348.

A.Kojevnikov. “A grande ciência de Stalin: tempos e aventuras de físicos soviéticos no exemplo da biografia política de Lev Landau.” Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência (2011) 4(1): 6-15.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Phenomenon of Soviet Science.” Osiris (2008) 23: 115-135; (also in Turkish) “Sovyet Bilimi Fenomeni.” Historia 1923 (Winter 2018) No. 4: 298-322.

H.Trischler, C.Carson, A.Kojevnikov. “Beyond Weimar Culture.“ Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (2008) 31: 305-310.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Little Ball Made Science Bigger.” Nature (2007) 449: 542.

A.Kojevnikov. “P.A.M. Dirac,” “David Bohm,” “Paul Ehrenfest,” “V.A. Fock,” “Pascual Jordan,” “P.L. Kapitsa,” “L.D. Landau,” and other articles for Encyclopedia Britannica.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Making of the Soviet Bomb and the Shaping of Cold War Science.” In Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections (UC Berkeley, 2005), 129-145.

R.Beyler, A.Kojevnikov, J.Wang. “Purges in Comparative Perspective: Rules for Exclusion and Inclusion in the Scientific Community under Political Pressure.” Osiris (2005) 20: 23-48.

A.Kojevnikov. “Rivolgimenti sociali e politiche della scienza” and “Manovre della guerra fredda.” Ch. LVII, LXXI in Storia della Scienza. Vol. 8: La Seconda Revoluzione Scientifica (Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2004) 472-477, 576-583, 936-940.

(in Russian) A.Kojevnikov, M.Mokrova. “It was not possible to dictate to a researcher…”  Interview with A.M. Prokhorov, Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki (2003) # 4: 105-127.

A.Kojevnikov. “Lev Landau: Physicist and Revolutionary.” Physics World (2002) # 6: 35-39; (also in Polish) Postępy Fizyki (2003) 54: 206-212.

A.Kojevnikov. “David Bohm and Collective Movement.” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (2002) 33: 161-192.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Last Century of Physics” (essay review). Annals of Science (2002) 59: 419-422.

A.Kojevnikov. “Einstein’s Fluctuation Formula and the Wave-Particle Duality.” Einstein Studies (2002) 10: 181-228.

A.Kojevnikov. “Dirac’s Quantum Electrodynamics.” Einstein Studies (2002) 10: 229-259.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Great War, the Russian Civil War, and the Invention of Big Science.” Science in Context (2002) 15: 239-275.

A.Kojevnikov. “A New History of Russian Science.” Science in Context (2002) 15: 177-182.

A.Kojevnikov. “Games of Stalinist Democracy.” In Stalinism: New Directions (Rewriting Histories), ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick (London: Routledge, 2000), 142-175.

A.Kojevnikov. “Dialogues about Knowledge and Power in Totalitarian Political Culture.” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (1999) 30: 227-247.

(in Russian) G.Gorelik, A.Kozhevnikov. “How was Soviet Physics Saved from Lysenkoism? A Dialogue.” Priroda (1999) #5: 95-104.

A.Kojevnikov. “Freedom, Collectivism, and Quasiparticles: Social Metaphors in Quantum Physics.” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (1999) 29: 295-331.

A.Kojevnikov. “Toward a Post-Cold War Historiography.” The Russian Review (1998) 57: 455-459.

A.Kojevnikov. “Rituals of Stalinist Culture at Work: Science and the Games of Intraparty Democracy circa 1948.” The Russian Review (1998) 57: 25-52; (also in Russian) Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki (1997) No. 4: 26-58.

A.Kojevnikov. “Zwischen Ruhm und Verfolgung.” Kultur und Technik: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Museums (1997) Heft 1: 50-57.

(in Russian) A.B.Kozhevnikov, T.B.Romanovskaia. “Quantum Theory (1900-1927).” In Fizika XIX-XX vv. v Obschenauchnom i Sotsialnom Kontekstakh (Moscow, 1997) vol. 2: 56-85.

A.Kojevnikov. “President of Stalin’s Academy: The Mask and Responsibility of Sergei Vavilov.” Isis (1996) 87: 18-50.

F.Krafft, S.Goldberg, D.Hoffmann, A.Kojewnikow, H.Rechenberg. “Die erste Kernwaffendetonation am 16. Juni 1945 – Vorgeschichte, Ereignis, Wirkungen.” Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (1996) 19: 157-182.

(in Russian) A.B.Kozhevnikov. “The German Atomic Project in the Light of Farm Hall Transcripts.” Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki (1994) No. 3: 165-168.

(in Russian) A.V.Andreev, A.B.Kozhevnikov, B.E.Yavelov. “The Copenhagen Mission of Soviet Intelligence.” Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki (1994) No. 2: 18-44.

(in Russian) A.B.Kozhevnikov. “Rockefeller Philanthropies and Soviet Science.” Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki (1993) No. 2: 80-111.

A.Kozhevnikov. “Piotr Kapitza and Stalin’s Government: A Study in Moral Choice.” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (1991) 22: 131-164.

(in Russian) A.B.Kozhevnikov, A.G.Petrosova. “Scientific Periodicals in the USSR (1917-1949): A Quantitative Analysis.” Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki (1991) No. 4: 44-50.

A.Kozhevnikov, O.Novik. “Analysis of Informational Dynamics in Early Quantum Mechanics (1925-1927).” Acta Historiae Rerum Naturalium Necnon Technicarum (Prague, 1989) 20: 115-159.

(in Russian) A.B. Kozhevnikov. “Dirac and the Quantum Theory of Radiation.” Einsteinian Volume, 1984-1985 (Moscow: Nauka, 1988), 246-270.

Reviews

(in press) “My Life in Fragments, by Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Izabela Wagner.” Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue canadienne des slavistes.

A.Kojevnikov. “Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR, by Tricia Starks.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (2023) 97: 518-520.

A.Kojevnikov. “Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics, by Elena Aronova.” Russian Review (2022) 81: 387-388.

A.Kojevnikov. “From Pugwash to Putin: A Critical History of    US-Soviet Scientific Cooperation, by Gerson S. Sher.” H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2022).

A.Kojevnikov. “No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, by Daniel Kennefick.” American Journal of Physics (2019) 87: 851-852.

A.Kojevnikov. “Andrei Sakharov: The Conscience of Humanity, edited by Sidney D. Drell and George P. Shultz.” Physics Today (2016) 69 (7): 61-62; (2017) 70 (2): 14-15.

A.Kojevnikov. “Revolutionary Experiments: The Quest for Immortality in Bolshevik Science and Fiction, by Nikolai Krementsov.” Isis (2016) 107: 201-202.

A.Kojevnikov. “Plutopia Forever” (review of Plutopia, by Kate Brown). Physics World (March 2014), 55-56.

A.Kojevnikov. “The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Physicists between Autonomy and Accommodation, edited by Dieter Hoffmann and Mark Walker.” Isis (2014) 105: 454-455.

A.Kojevnikov. “Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917-1989, by Paul R. Josephson.” The Slavic Review (2012) 71: 464-465.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957, by Asif A. Siddiqi.” American Historical Review (2011) 116: 1231-1232.

A.Kojevnikov. “A Nobel for Communism” (review of Lenin’s Laureate: Zhores Alferov’s Life in Communist Science, by Paul R. Josephson). Physics World (2011) 3: 46-47.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments, by Jim Baggott.” Physics Today (2011) 64(12): 56-57.

A.Kojevnikov. “A History of Agricultural Experimental Institutions in Russia, by Olga Elina.” Isis (2010) 101: 893-894.

(in Russian) A.B.Kozhevnikov. “From Enlightenment to Science, by Anastasia Korzukhina.” Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki (2009) No. 4: 180-83.

A.Kojevnikov. “Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform, by Loren Graham and Irina Dezhina.” Isis (2009) 100: 947-948.

A.Kojevnikov. “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb, edited by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann. “ Nuncius (2008) 23: 441-442.

A.Kojevnikov. “Pavlov’s Physiological Factory: Experiment, Interpretation, Laboratory Enterprise, by Daniel P. Todes.” The Journal of Modern History (2005) 77: 1170-1172.

A.Kojevnikov. “Gravity’s Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves, by Harry Collins.” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (2005) 35: 372-373; 36: 207.

A.Kojevnikov. “Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge and The Soviet Space Race with Apollo, by Asif A. Siddiqi.” The Russian Review (2004) 63: 544-546.

A.Kojevnikov. “Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir Naumov.” Russian History/Histoire Russe (2003) 30: 461-464.

A.Kojevnikov. “Andrei Sakharov: Nauka i Svoboda, by Gennady Gorelik and Sakharov: A Biography, by Richard Lourie.” Isis (2003) 94: 408-409.

A.Kojevnikov. “American Studies of Russian History: The Soviet Period, edited by Michael David-Fox.” H-Russia (2003)

A.Kojevnikov. “Einstein and Soviet Ideology, by Alexander Vucinich.” Physics Today (2002) 55: 59-60.

A.Kojevnikov. “A Portrait Gallery of Twentieth-century Physicists, by Abraham Pais.“ Endeavour: A Quarterly Magazine for the History and Philosophy of Science (2001) 25 (1): 46.

A.Kojevnikov. “Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, by Paul Lawrence Rose.” The Journal of Modern History (2000) 72: 839-841.

A.Kojevnikov. “What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience? by Loren R. Graham.” Russian History/Histoire Russe (1999) 26: 100-101.

A.Kojevnikov. “Thawing Science”(review of New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science, by Paul R. Josephson). Science (1998) 279: 189.

A.Kojevnikov. “Infinite Potential: The Life and Science of David Bohm, by David F. Peat.” Isis (1998) 89: 752-753.

A.Kojevnikov. “Essays of a Soviet Scientist, by Vitalii I. Gol’danskii.” Isis (1998) 89: 571-572.

A.Kojevnikov. “The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity, by Vojtech Mastny.” H-Russia (1998).

A.Kojevnikov. “Stalin’s Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb.” Physics Today (1997) 50: 66.

A.Kojevnikov. “Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956, by David Holloway.” Slavic Review (1995) 54: 1100-1101.

A.Kojevnikov. “Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science, by Valery N. Soyfer.” Slavic Review (1995) 54: 1098-1099.

D.Hoffmann, A.Kojevnikov. “ ‘Kalte Fusion’ des Kalten Krieges.” Physikalische Blätter (1994) 50: 638.

A.Kojevnikov. “Transformations and Survivals” (review of Science in Russia and the Soviet Union, by Loren R. Graham). Science (1993) 261: 1336-1338.

(in Russian) A.Kojevnikov. “Soviet Scientists on the Problem of Organization of Research, 1917-1930, ed. by K.G.Bolshakova.“ Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki (1992) No. 1: 151-152.

Zhanara Almazbekova, Soviet and National Kyrgyzstan: Local Agency and State-Building in Central Asia (1918-1940) (UBC, MA in History, 2021)

Ataolla Heshmati, Islamic Techno-Science: Machines, Politics, and Gender in Iran’s Cultural Revolution (1980-1983) (UBC, MA in Science and Technology Studies, 2021)

Gül Banu Kayir, Faustian Bargain: How the Academics in Turkey Dealt with University Purges, 1960s-1980s (UBC, MA in History, 2020)

Ken Corbett, The Importance of Being Punctual: Time, Trust, and Virtue in Britain, c. 1700-1900 (UBC, PhD in History, 2020)

Mariya Boyko, Soviet Mathematics Curriculum Reforms (1958-1985): Redefining the Purpose of Mathematics Education (University of Toronto, PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, 2019)

Eric Michael Johnson, The Struggle for Coexistence: Peter Kropotkin and the Social Ecology of Science in Russia, Europe, and England, 1859-1922 (UBC, PhD in History 2019)

Jean-Philippe Martinez, Antireductionism and Scientific Realism in Modern Physics: Vladimir Fock (1898-1974), Externalist Itinerary of an Internalist Thought (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France, PhD in History and Philosophy of Science 2017)

Alexey Golubev, Elemental Materialism: Objectifying Power and Selfhood in the Late USSR, 1961-1991 (UBC, PhD in History, 2016)

Climério Paulo da Silva Neto, Constructing the Soviet Laser, 1939-1961 (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, PhD in Philosophy and History of Science and Education 2015)

Somaditya Banerjee, Bhadralok Physics and the Making of Modern Science in Colonial India, 1900-1940 (UBC, PhD in History 2013)

Isabel Izquierdo Campos, Tensions, Dilemmas, and Identity Strategies: The Case of Soviet Scientists Who Immigrated to Mexico in the 1990s (UNAM, Mexico, PhD in Sociology and Education 2013)

James Barlament, Healthy Fear: Bacteria and Culture in America at the Turn of the 20th Century (University of Georgia, Athens GA, USA, MA in History 2005)

Dan Medovnikov, Theoretical Prerequisites for the Discovery of Electron in fin-de-siècle Physics (Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, MS in Physics 1994)

Undergraduate Honours Theses

Bogdan Koutsenko, Russia’s 1992 Voucher Privatization: An Intellectual History (UBC, 2022)

Kevin Lee Ang, Externally Internal: Soviet Nationalities Policy and Uyghur Uprisings in Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) 1920s-1940s (UBC, 2019)

Rebecca Silver, “Do not Divide the Dead”: Limits of Representation of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, 1960-1968 (UBC, 2019)

Connor Stewart Hunter, Warming Trends: Soviet Climate Science and State Policy (UBC, 2016)