Hugh Slotten

Hugh Slotten is honorary associate professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Slotten was the lead editor of Volume 8 of the Cambridge History of Science Series Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context (2020). He is currently editing a collection with Hamish Spencer analyzing the global history of science: Globalizing the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology). His most recent book explored the development of the first global satellite communications system: Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications (Johns Hopkins, 2022). The book won the 2023 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award from the American Astronautical Society. During 2021–2022, he was Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.