Stephen Buono is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School. Buono is a historian of ideas, international relations, and science and technology, particularly spaceflight. He is the author of two books on the interplay of these subjects: The Province of All Mankind: How Outer Space Became American Foreign Policy (Cornell, 2025) and Governing the Moon: A History (NASA, 2025), as well as numerous articles and book chapters for both scholarly and popular audiences.

Before joining the Hamilton School, he was a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and held posts at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.