• Awards, Prizes & Grants
• Special Interest Groups

Fellowships:

• Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship
• Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship
• SHOT-NASA Fellowship

Prizes

• da Vinci Medal
• Edelstein Prize
• Hacker Prize
• Usher Prize
• Robinson Prize
• Levinson Prize
• IEEE Life Members Prize
• Dibner Award
• Ferguson Prize

Grants & Other Funding

• International Scholars Program
• SHOT Travel Grants
• Women in Technological History Travel Grants

 

The Edelstein Prize

The Edelstein Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology published during the preceding three years (so, for example, books eligible for the 2010 award will have been published in 2007–2009). Non-English language books are eligible for three years following the date of their English translation. Previously known as the Dexter Prize, the Edelstein Prize was established in 1968 through the generosity of the late Sidney Edelstein, a noted expert on the history of dyes and dye processes, founder of the Dexter Chemical Corporation, and 1988 recipient of SHOT's Leonardo da Vinci Award. The prize, donated by Ruth Edelstein Barish and her family in memory of Sidney Edelstein and his commitment to excellence in scholarship in the history of technology, consists of a cash award and a plaque (pictured at left, SHOT president Arne Kaijser and 2009 Edelstein Prize recipient William Kelleher Storey, near left).

Publishers and authors are invited to nominate titles for this prize. To nominate a book, please send one copy to each of the committee members listed below. The deadline for receipt of books is 15 April.

For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.975.2190, shot@virginia.edu.

2010 Edelstein Prize Committee

Francesca Bray (chair) Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh 5.02 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LD U.K. francesca.bray@ed.ac.uk	Eda Kranakis Department of History University of Ottawa 155 Séraphin Marion St. Ottawa Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada kranakis@uottawa.ca
William K. Storey History Department Millsaps College 1701 North State St Jackson, MS 39210 storewk@millsaps.edu

Previous Recipients of the Edelstein Prize*

2009	William Kelleher Storey, Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
2008	Christine MacLeod, Heroes of Invention: Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
2007	Gregory Clancey, Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 (University of California Press, 2006)
2006	Christine Cogdell, Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
2005	Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 (MIT Press, 2002)
2004	Angela Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
2003	Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
2002	Martin V. Melosi, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
2001	Gabrielle Hecht, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (The MIT Press, 1998)
2000	Paul Israel, Edison, A Life of Invention (New York: John Wiley, 1998)
1999	Francesca Bray, Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 1997)
1998	Ken Alder, Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 (Princeton University Press, 1997)
1997	Thomas J. Misa, A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); and Michael J. Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era (Harvard University Press, 1995)
1996	Jeffrey Meikle, American Plastic: A Cultural History (Rutgers University Press, 1995)
1995	Claude Fischer, America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 (University of California Press, 1992)
1994	John H. White, Jr., The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car to the Coming of Steel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
1993	David Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology (MIT Press, 1990)
1992	Donald Reid, Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations (Harvard University Press, 1991)
1991	Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Cornell University Press, 1989)
1990	Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
1989	Judith A. McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 (Princeton University Press, 1987), and Anthony F. C. Wallace, St. Clair: A Nineteenth-century Coal Town's Experience with Disaster-prone Industry (Knopf, 1987)

*Formerly the Dexter prize