In New Book, Fordham Professor Explores Technology and Capitalism in Pop Music
What would the biography of a pop song look like? And what could it tell…
Asif Siddiqi
Rams in the News: 50 Years Ago, a Forgotten Mission Landed on Mars
CLIPS OF THE WEEK ASIF SIDDIQI 50 Years Ago, a Forgotten Mission Landed on Mars…
Bringing Outer Space Issues Down to Earth
In the mid-1960s, when the excitement of the space race stoked his interest in becoming…
Sixty Years Later, Sputnik Declassifications Offer Primer in Fake News
On Oct. 4, the 60th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, Asif Siddiqi, Fordham professor…
History Professor Asif Siddiqi is 2015 Guggenheim Fellow
Fordham Professor of History Asif A. Siddiqi, PhD, is one of 175 scholars, artists, and…
Eight Things about Space Exploration You May Not Know
1. Humans have built five objects that have left or are about to leave the…
Those Bronx River Rats are Back on Campus
What do higher education and bar room blues have in common? The Bronx River Rats,…
History Professor Pens First Academic Study on Birth of Soviet Space Program
Space has been fantasized as the “final frontier” by some. But—as Asif Siddiqi, Ph.D., will attest—it’s one…
Sapientia et Doctrina Sputnik and American Nostalgia
On the night of October 4, 1957, a Soviet rocket lifted off from a location…
Sapientia et Doctrina: Sputnik and American Nostalgia
Asif Siddiqi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History On the night of October 4, 1957, a…