Stephen Buono is an Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is at work on two books. His first project, The Province of All Mankind, narrates the birth of outer space as a realm of American foreign policy and international law. The second, commissioned by NASA, is a history of lunar governance in the Cold War. He has been a Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a NASA Aerospace History Fellow. His work has appeared in Diplomatic History and Diplomacy & Statecraft, as well as popular outlets including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University, Bloomington.