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BA(Earlham College) MS MA PhD Wisconsin
Associate Professor

Contact

Office 3N6, 3rd floor, Arts (Burns) Building
Tel +64 3 479 6546
Email hugh.slotten@otago.ac.nz

Research Interest

Associate Professor Slotten's areas of expertise include media and communication history, the history of science and technology, global media, science and technology studies, science communication, media and communication industry studies, and communication and media policy. His most recent book explores the development of the first global satellite communication system: Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).

He has held appointments at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum two different times (mostly recently for the 2022-23 academic year). He has also received grants and fellowships from the United States National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, the American Historical Association, the Huntington Library, the Spencer Foundation, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, and the Dibner Foundation.

Associate Professor Slotten was the lead editor of Volume 8 of the Cambridge History of Science Series: Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and the editor in chief of the two-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology (Oxford University Press, 2014). His book – Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey (Cambridge University Press, 1994) won an award from the Forum for the History of Science in America of the History of Science Society. Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States (History of Communication Series, University of Illinois Press, 2009) won a book award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Papers in 2023

Semester One:
On academic leave

Semester Two:
MFCO 222 Science, Technology, and Society
MFCO 313 Culture, Politics, Policy and Global Media

Publications

Slotten, H. R. (2022). Beyond Sputnik and the space race. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 256p.

Slotten, H. R. (2020). Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia: A commentary. In H. R. Slotten, R. L. Numbers & D. N. Livingstone (Eds.), The Cambridge history of science (Vol. 8): Modern science in national, transnational, and global context. (pp. 510-518). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781139044301.028

Slotten, H. R. (2020). United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania: A commentary. In H. R. Slotten, R. L. Numbers & D. N. Livingstone (Eds.), The Cambridge history of science (Vol. 8): Modern science in national, transnational, and global context. (pp. 752-759). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781139044301.038

Slotten, H. R. (2020). National scientific surveys. In H. R. Slotten, R. L. Numbers & D. N. Livingstone (Eds.), The Cambridge history of science (Vol. 8): Modern science in national, transnational, and global context. (pp. 124-136). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781139044301.010

Slotten, H. R. (2020). Introduction. In H. R. Slotten, R. L. Numbers & D. N. Livingstone (Eds.), The Cambridge history of science (Vol. 8): Modern science in national, transnational, and global context. (pp. 1-5). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781139044301.002

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