• Awards, Prizes & Grants
• Special Interest Groups
• International Scholars Program
• Travel Grants

• Benefits of Membership
• Member Services
• Officers, Committees, and Governance

Awards, Prizes, and, Grants

Each year, the Society for the History of Technology offers a number of awards, grants, and prizes, details on which may be obtained by clicking on the name of the appropriate item below.

Fellowships

Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship: Awarded annually to a student preparing a dissertation in the history of technology, broadly defined.

Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship: An annual award in support of a scholar at the beginning of his or her career.

SHOT-NASA Fellowship: A predoctoral or postdoctoral fellowship in the history of space technology.

Awards and Prizes

Leonardo da Vinci Medal: The society's highest honor, presented to an individual who has greatly contributed to the history of technology through research, teaching, publications, and other activities.

Sidney Edelstein Prize: Recognizing outstanding scholarly work in the history of technology.

Sally Hacker Prize: Established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience.

Abbot Payson Usher Prize: Awarded annually to honor the best scholarly work published under the auspices of SHOT.

Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize: Awarded for the best-presented paper at the SHOT annual meeting by a scholar of any age presenting for the first time.

Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize: For an original essay in the history of technology that examines technology within the framework of social or intellectual history.

IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History: For the best article in the history of electrotechnology—power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science.

Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits: Recognizing museums and exhibits that interpret the history of technology, industry, and engineering to the general public.

Eugene S. Ferguson Prize: For original reference works that support future scholarship in the history of technology.

International Scholars Program

International Scholars: To foster the international community of the history of technology and help non-U.S. historians of technology participate in the meetings and governance of SHOT.

Grants

SHOT offers some grant support for travel to the annual meeting; details are here. The special interest group WITH (Women in Technological History) also makes travel grants; see their web site for further information.