The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience. Any book published in the three years preceding the year of the award is eligible (for example, books eligible for the 2013 award would have been published in 2010–2012). The prize consists of a cash award and a certificate (At left, 2012 recipient, Molly Berger).
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, postmarked by 15 April. While each book is eligible for three years after its publication date, it must be specifically renominated in years two and/or three of eligibility in order to be reconsidered. Renomination requires that a copy of the book be sent to any new committee members, and any returning committee member who previously received the book must receive a letter renominating the book.
For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.987.6230, shot@virginia.edu.
2013 Hacker Prize Committee
Per Högselius (2011-2013)
c/o Cheng Jinfa
No. 161, Tianmushan Rd.
Huifen gongyu,
nan lou 2 dan yuan 1602 shi
310013 Hangzhou, China per.hogselius@abe.kth.se
Tel: +86 153 55039636
David Mindell, Chair (2013-14)
MIT E51-185
70 Memorial Drive
Cambridge MA 02139 mindell@mit.edu
Joyce Bedi
Lemelson Center
NMAH Rm 1210, MRC 604
U.S. Postal Service:
P.O. Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012 Fed Ex, UPS, etc.:
14th Street & Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20560-0604 bedij@si.edu
Previous Recipients of the Sally Hacker Prize
2012
Molly Berger, Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
2011
James R. Fleming, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control (Columbia University Press, 2010)
2010
Susanne Freidberg, Fresh: A Perishable History (Harvard University Press, 2009)
2009
David Nye, Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (MIT, 2006)
2008
W. Bernard Carlson, Technology in World History (Oxford University Press, 2005)
2007
Mark Katz, Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (University of California Press, 2004)
2006
Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (W.W. Norton, 2005)
2005
David Herlihy, Bicycle: The History (Yale University Press, 2004)
2004
Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Viking, 2003)
2003
Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color (Farrar Strauss and Giroux 2002)
2002
Bella Bathurst, The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson (Harper Collins, 1999)
2001
David A. Mindell, War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
2000
Susan J. Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (Times Books 1999)
1999
Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age (Norton 1997)