• 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 Ferguson Prize

The Eugene S. Ferguson Prize is awarded biennially by SHOT for outstanding and original reference work that will support future scholarship in the history of technology. The Ferguson Prize recognizes work that is in the tradition of scholarly excellence established by Eugene S. Ferguson (1916–2004), SHOT's pioneering bibliographer, a founding member of the Society (President, 1977–78; da Vinci Medalist, 1977), museum curator and exhibit catalog author, editor, annotator, university professor, and scholar of the history of engineering and technology. The prize consists of a plaque and a cash award.

Reflecting the scope of Eugene Ferguson's contributions to the history of technology, submissions and nominations for the following types of reference and scholarly works and tools will be considered for the Ferguson Prize:

• Bibliographies
• Biographical dictionaries
• Critical editions of primary source materials in English
• Exhibition catalogues
• Guides to the field of the history of technology
• Historical dictionaries and encyclopedias
• Subject guides to archival repositories and library sources
• Topical atlases
• Translated works (into English) with substantial annotation and other scholarly apparatus

Works that extend beyond the printed text, including other media, such as CDs, World Wide Web sites, and electronic data bases and tools, keeping in mind that the principal criterion of "support [of] future scholarship" for judging excellence requires that such works exhibit a degree of permanence similar to that of books.

In light of Eugene Ferguson's noteworthy contributions to our understanding of visual thinking and visual display, nominations of works that demonstrate commitment to and achievement of nonverbal knowledge generation and transmission are especially encouraged.

Works published in the four calendar years prior to the year of the award are eligible for consideration. Publication date shall be interpreted as the year in which the work to be considered first appeared (i.e., first edition, first issuance, first availability, first uploading to the World Wide Web, etc.)

All works considered must be in English.

Awarded biennially, the next Ferguson Prize will be awarded in 2011, and so publishers and authors are now invited to nominate titles or other works 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 1 April 2011. If you wish to nominate an item other than a book, please contact the committee chair for instructions on how to submit an official nominations letter.

A brochure describing the Eugene S. Ferguson prize is also available. For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.975.2190, shot@virginia.edu.

2011 Ferguson Prize Committee

Carolyn C. Cooper (2009-2011) Research Affiliate Department of Economics Yale University 55 S Fair St Guilford, CT 06437 carolyn.cooper@yale.edu

Darwin Stapleton (2009-2011) Executive Director Emeritus Rockefeller Archive Center 25 Wolden Rd Ossining, NY 10562 stapled@rockefeller.edu

A third member of the 2011 committee has yet to be announced.

Previous Recipients of the Ferguson Prize

2009	John Peter Oleson, The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (Oxford University Press, 2008)
2007	The Papers of Joseph Henry, ed. Nathan Reingold (vols. 1–5) and Marc Rothenberg (vols. 6–11)
2005	James R. Hansen, ed., The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America (NASA History Series, 2004)
Special retrospective award	The Papers of Thomas A. Edison (Johns Hopkins University Press)