Stephen Buono is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where he is a scholar-in-residence at the Society of Fellows. His research and teaching interests straddle modern U.S. and international history, social and political history, and the history of science and technology, particularly spaceflight. His first book, The Province of All Mankind (forthcoming from Cornell University Press) narrates the birth of outer space as a realm of U.S. foreign policy and international law. He has begun a second book, commissioned by NASA, on global governance of the moon. Before arriving at UChicago, Dr. Buono held posts with Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
The Interplanetary School of IR,” International History Review, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2023.2251487
“‘Merely a Scrap of Paper’? The Outer Space Treaty in Historical Perspective, Diplomacy & Statecraft 31, no. 2 (June 2020): 350–72.
“‘This Grim Game’: Kennedy and Arms Control for Outer Space,” Diplomatic History 43, no. 5 (November 2019): 840–66.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“The History of Space Security,” in Oxford Handbook of Space Security (with Aaron Bateman, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2024
"The Devil's Glow: Nuclear Weapons and the Space Environment," in NASA and the Environment (forthcoming, 2025)
COURSES
Global Society I: Varieties of Social Imagination
Global Society II: Population & Society
(and listed in the History Department for Spring 2025): The History of the Future