• 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 Hindle Fellowship

The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology honors the contribution of Brooke Hindle to the work of the Society for the History of Technology and awarded every other year (at left, 2010 Hindle Fellowship recipient Allison Marsh with SHOT president Arne Kaijser). The Fellowship, made possible thanks to the great generosity of his family, is for $10,000 and may be used, as further detailed below, for any purpose connected with research or writing in the history of technology for a period of not less than four months during the year following the award. The Brooke Hindle Fellowship will be awarded next in 2012.

Applicants must hold a doctorate in the history of technology or a related field, normally awarded within the preceding four years, or expect to have graduated by the time of the award. (Those who graduated earlier and can demonstrate good reason why they should be considered as being at an early stage in their postdoctoral career—e.g., because of family commitments—may apply at the discretion of the committee chair.) Other awards may be held in conjunction with the Fellowship.

The proposal must be in a field related to the history of technology. Applicants should be intending either to prepare a dissertation for publication as articles or as a monograph, whether or not this involves fresh primary research, or to develop a new project based on primary research. Applications must be in English. The deadline for proposals is 1 April 2012.

For those expecting to graduate, the application should include:

1. A 2500–word summary of the dissertation and a sample chapter (no more than 50 pages)
2. A plan of work (1000–1500 words) for the period of the fellowship
3. Two letters of recommendation, one from a scholar not on the applicant's dissertation committee or thesis advisory panel, and one as appropriate from the chair of the dissertation committee or the thesis supervisor, certifying that the applicant will complete the dissertation by the deadline and explaining the dissertation's strengths

For those holding the doctoral degree and intending to publish their dissertation as articles or a book, the application should include:

1. A 2500–word summary of the dissertation and a sample chapter (no more than 50 pages)
2. A plan of work (1000–1500 words) for the period of the fellowship
3. Two letters of recommendation. For applicants in full-time employment, one letter must include confirmation that an appropriate period of release will be granted. Ideally, the second letter should come from a colleague outside the employing institution.

Applicants are strongly urged to also submit copies of letters of interest from potential publishers or similar supporting material.

For those holding the doctoral degree and working towards a new project beyond the dissertation, the application should include:

1. A 2500–word summary of the dissertation and a statement concerning published work derived from it
2. An outline (2500–5000 words) of the new project's focus, relevant literature, source material, and a plan of work for the period of the fellowship
3. Two letters of recommendation. For applicants in full-time employment, one letter must include confirmation that an appropriate period of release will be granted. Ideally, the second letter should come from a colleague outside the employing institution.

2012 Hindle Fellowship Committee

Gerry Fitzgerald (2012-2014), gjf9tg@cms.mail.virginia.edu	Christine MacLeod, Chair (2012-2014), c.macleod@bristol.ac.uk
Eric Schatzberg (2012-2014), eschatzb@wisc.edu

Previous Recipients of the Hindle Fellowship

2010	Allison C. Marsh	2009	Hyungsub Choi
2008	Gabriella M. Petrick	2007	Heather Perry
2006	Sonja Schmid	2005	Ann Greene
2004	Sara B. Pritchard	2003	Anique Hommels
2002	Kathleen Franz	2001	Suzanne Moon

For more information, please contact the committee chair or Bernie Carlson, SHOT Secretary, 434.987.6230, shot@virginia.edu.