• 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 Levinson Prize

The Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize is awarded each year for a single-authored, unpublished essay in the history of technology that explicitly examines, in some detail, a technology or technological device or process within the framework of social or intellectual history. It is intended for younger scholars and new entrants into the profession.

Manuscripts already published or accepted for publication are not eligible. In order to be considered, manuscripts must be in English and of a length suitable for publication as an article in Technology and Culture—approximately 7,500 words (not including notes) and 100 notes. The winning manuscript will be considered for publication in Technology and Culture.

To nominate an essay, please send it by e-mail, in MS Word or PDF format, to the SHOT office (shot@virginia.edu), clearly stating that this is a nomination for the Levinson prize. Please also send one paper copy to: SHOT Office, Dept. of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia, PO Box 400744, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4744

The judging will be blind, so authors should avoid self-identification in the text of the article. Please put your name at the top of your e-mail and on a cover sheet to the paper copy; this information will be detached before the manuscript is forwarded to the committee.

The closing date for nominations is 15 April; all entries must be received by this deadline. The award consists of a cash award and a certificate, to be presented at the Society's annual meeting.

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

2013 Levinson Prize Committee

Scott Knowles (2013-15) Scott Gabriel Knowles Drexel University Department of History and Politics 3141 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA, 19104 sgk23@drexel.edu	Frank Schipper, Chair (2012-2014) Institute for History, Economic & Social History Leiden University Johan Huizinga-building 124b Doelensteeg 16, 2311VL Leiden The Netherlands f.schipper@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Julie Wosk (2011-2013) Department of Humanities State University of New York, Maritime College Dept. of Humanities 6 Pennyfield Avenue Throggs Neck, NY 10465 JWosk@sunymaritime.edu

Previous Recipients of the Levinson Prize

2011	Christopher S. Leslie, "as We Should Have Thought: The Intellectual Legacy of the Memex"
2009	Finn Arne Jørgensen, "Simple Comforts: Technology, Convenience, and Simplicity in Norwegian Leisure Cabins, 1950-1980"
2008	Christopher Beauchamp, “Who Invented the Telephone? Lawyers, Patents, and the Judgments of History”
2007	Eric Hintz, “Portable Power: Inventor Samuel Ruben and the Birth of Duracell”
2006	Jonathan Hagood, “Bottling Atomic Energy: Distinguishing Between Science and Technology in Perónist Argentina, 1948–1952”
2005	Christopher W. Wells, "Inventing the Automobile: Culture, Road Conditions, and Innovation at the Dawn of the Motor Age, 1895–1907"
2004	Matthew Adams Axtell, "In Pursuit of a Barren Scepter: The Life and Death of the James River and Kanawha Canal in Antebellum Virginia's Forsaken West, 1784-1860"
2003	Scott Gabriel Knowles, "The One Place Where It Pays to Play with Fire? Underwriters Laboratories and the Invention of Fire Safety"
2002	Timothy S. Wolters, "Beyond the Line: Signalling Technology and Professionalization in the Eighteenth Century Royal Navy"
2001	Gerard Fitzgerald, "Babies, Barriers, and Bacteriological Engineers: Instrumental Technologies at LOBUND, 1930-1952"
1999	William Boyd, "The Real Subsumption of Nature? Science, Technology, and the Industrialization of the American Chicken"
1998	Toby Jones, "Path to peace? Britain, Technology, and Resistance in Palestine, 1929-1939"
1997	Linda Nash, "The Changing Course of Nature"
1996	Miranda Paton, "Seeing How to Listen"
1995	Michael Allen, "The Golleschauer Portland Cement Factory: Modern Management, Technological Modernization, and Concentration Camp Labor in the SS Business Administration Main Office"
1994	Greg Clancey, "The Balloon Frame Revisited: Mechanization, Mass-Production, and Prefabrication in American Building-Carpentry"
1993	Cheenu Raman Srinivasan, "No Free Launch: Designing the Indian National Satellite"
1992	David Jardini, "From Iron to Steel: The Recasting of the Jones and Laughlin Work Force between 1885 and 1896"
1991	Gabrielle Hecht, "Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in France"