I am an author, instructor, and a researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. I was a long-time magazine editor and writer. Some of my articles have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland, Scientific American, Wired, Quanta, Salon, Kenyon Review, Physics Today, Massive, and elsewhere.
I am working on my first book, a cultural history of particle physics in the 20th century, to be titled The Invisible World. The book will published in the US by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, in the UK by The Bodley Head, and in a dozen or so other countries and languages around the world. An excerpt from the book won an inaugural Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.
Contact: I can be reached at either joshua ‘at’ joshuaroebke.com or roebke ‘at’ austin.utexas.edu.