• 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 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 (pictured at right, SHOT president Arne Kaijers and 2009 Hacker Prize recipient David Nye, far 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, 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.

2010 Hacker Prize Committee

Nathan Ensmenger Department of History and Sociology of Science 303 Claudia Cohen Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 nathanen@sas.upenn.edu

Christine MacLeod (chair) Historical Studies University of Bristol 13-15 Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1TB England/UK c.macleod@bris.ac.uk

David Nye Center for American Studies University of Southern Denmark Odense 5230 M Denmark nye@hist.sdu.dk

Previous Recipients of the Sally Hacker Prize

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)