The Hacker Prize
The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy to toward a broad audience. Any book published in the three years preceding the year of the award is eligible (so, for example, books eligible for the 2009 award would have been published in 2006–2008). The prize consists of a cash award and a certificate.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 April 15. 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 re-nominating the book.
For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.975.2190, shot@virginia.edu.
2009 Hacker Prize Committee
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Ben Cohen
(chair) Department of STS A237 Thornton Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22904 bcohen@virginia.edu |
David Hochfelder
Department of History SUNY Albany 1400 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12222 dhochfelder@albany.edu |
Christine MacLeod Historical Studies University of Bristol 13-15 Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1TB England/UK c.macleod@bris.ac.uk |
Previous Recipients of the Sally Hacker Prize
| 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) |