Audra J. Wolfe

Audra J. Wolfe, Ph.D. is a Philadelphia-based writer, editor, and historian. She is the author of Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America and the forthcoming Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science. Her writing has appeared in both scholarly and more popular venues, including the Washington Post, The Atlantic.com, Slate, and the popular podcast American History Tellers. Originally from Indiana, Wolfe studied biochemistry and chemistry at Purdue University before completing her Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania.