Michael J. Neufeld is a historian and author. He chaired the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s
National Air and Space Museum from 2007 to 2011, and continues to be a curator there.[1]
Biography
Neufeld was born in
Edmonton,
Alberta, in 1951.[2] He received a bachelor's degree from the
University of Calgary and an M.A. from the
University of British Columbia in 1976 with a thesis entitled "He who will not work, neither shall he eat: German social democratic attitudes to labor, 1890-1914".[3] He received his Ph.D. from
Johns Hopkins University in 1984 with a dissertation on "From artisans to workers: the transformation of the skilled metalworkers of Nuremberg, 1835-1905".[4]
Translated into German by Jens Wagner as Die Rakete und das Reich: Wernher von Braun, Peenemünde und der Beginn des Raketenzeitalters.
ISBN9783894881177
with Alex M. Spencer. (eds.) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography. Washington, D.C:
National Geographic Society, 2010.
Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013.
Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in association with Zenith Press, 2014.