After finishing Antioch College, I moved to New England for graduate work in Soviet Studies at Harvard and a PhD in history of science and technology at MIT.  

I met my wife of 32-years, Cathy Frierson, at Harvard.  We are now divorced and have a 24-year-old son, Isaac, who is working as a waiter in Cambridge, MA.  (Cathy also works in Russian and Soviet studies as a professor at UNH.)  

I teach Russian and Soviet history, history of technology, and environmental history at Colby College.  Here is my webpage:

http://web.colby.edu/history/paul-r-josephson/

My hobbies are writing, carpentry and sports.  

I've written several books on the former USSR which are increasingly comparative with the US, Brazil, Germany and elsewhere.  I will finish a book on the Soviet arctic this summer and turn to a history of Jamaican technology next; I need a warm subject for a change, and the Jamaican archives are in English.  Here's an interview about my Arctic book:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Zy8-Z2PS4&list=UUd9pm9iQsU8mna_hRpYJSuQ&index=2&feature=plcp

I also write for New England Runner.  I have just run my 91st marathon in Stockholm, and have given up having any goals.  I will just run until I cannot.  I met an 83-year old who has run 325 marathons.  He always wins his age group!   The real question is, from what am I running?  I run now about 10 marathons annually around the world.  

I still wish I could have played professional baseball, but I couldn't hit, although I got a box seat out of Forbes Field at the last game there.  

As for carpentry, I built a house on Vinalhaven, an archipelago of islands off the Maine coast.  You can tell a guy who doesn't know carpentry built it, but I am getting better, have two guest cabins, truly want guests, and love to cook.  

Maine is noteworthy for its natural beauty, snow, cold weather, but also the spectacular if brief summers.  Global warming has made storms, insects, and summers more intense, while there remain "warming deniers" against all evidence, including in Maine's eloquent governor whose first public comment was to tell Obama to "kiss my butt" over Martin Luther King Day.  

Yes, I've become even more of a bleeding-heart liberal and something of a neo-luddite as this TEDx talk might indicate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsKHaCIwyaY

The summers find me traveling in northern Europe, so please let me know if you'd like to meet in Berlin or Paris or Trondheim or...for a coffee, wine or beer.  I so look forward to the reunion.