• 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 Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize

Established in 1980 by Dr. Eric Robinson in memory of his wife, the Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize is awarded annually for the best-presented paper by an individual delivering his or her first paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Candidates for the award are judged on the quality of the historical research and scholarship of the paper, but special attention is paid by the awards committee to the effectiveness of the presentation. The only requirement to compete for the Robinson prize is that a candidate must not have previously presented a paper at any annual SHOT conference. There are no age restrictions on competing for this prize. The prize consists of a check for a cash award and a certificate.

Eligible presenters are encouraged to nominate themselves for the Robinson Prize. You may indicate your desire to be a candidate for the Robinson Prize by checking the appropriate box in the on-line submission form for an individual paper or full session. 

If your paper is accepted by the Program Committee, your name will be automatically forwarded to the Robinson Prize Committee. This procedure will allow the Program and Robinson Prize Committees to arrange the program schedule so that more judges can hear all of the Robinson presentations.

As first-time presenters, Robinson Prize candidates may benefit especially from Paul Edwards's "How To Give A Talk: Better Academic Speaking in a Nutshell" (PDF) or these observations from Jonathan Shewchuk.

2013 Robinson Prize Committee

Greet de Block (2013-15) University of Leuven Greet.DeBlock@asro.kuleuven.be	Ann Greene (2011-2013) University of Pennsylvania angreene@sas.upenn.edu
Matthew Hersch (2011-13) University of Pennsylvania mhersch@sas.upenn.edu	Chihyung Jeon (2013-15) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology chihyung.jeon@gmail.com
Henrik Knudsen (2013-14) Aarhus University henrik.knudsen@ivs.au.dk	Vincent Lagendijk (2012-14) Maastricht University vincent.lagendijk@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Erinn McComb (2013-15) Mississippi State University ecm127@msstate.edu	Allan Meyer (2013-15) Auburn University ADM0027@auburn.edu
Amy Slaton, Chair (2011-2013) Drexel University slatonae@drexel.edu	Adelheid Voskuhl (2013-15) Harvard University avoskuhl@fas.harvard.edu

Previous Recipients of
the Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize

2011	Whitney E. Laemmli (University of Pennsylvania), “A Case in Pointe: Making Streamlined Bodies and Interchangeable Ballerinas at the New York City Ballet,”
2010	Aditi Raghavan (Northwestern University), "‘The Theodolite Coolie’ and Other British Mapping Devices"
2009	Madhumita Saha (Iowa State University), "The State of India, Postcolonial Agricultural Policy and Pre-Green Revolution Wheat Technology"
2008	Matthew Hersch, "High Fashion: The Women's Undergarment Industry and the Foundations of American Spaceflight"
2007	Kara Swanson, "Human Milk as Technology and Technologies of Human Milk: Milk Banks in the 20th-Century United States"
2006	Anna Storm (KTH), “Interpretation Processes in Re-used Industrial Areas”
2005	Peter A. Shulman (MIT), “Alaska: Infinite Coal Mine of the Imperial Imagination.”
2004	Jamie Pietruska (MIT), "Every man his own weather clerk: Weather Information Systems, Local Communications Technologies, and a National Weather Service for Agriculture, 1870-1891."
2003	Matthew Harpster (Texas A&M University), "New rules for old boats: Proportional rules in early-medieval ship design."
2002	Hyungsub Choi (Johns Hopkins University), "Rationalizing the 'Guerilla State': North Korean Factory Management Reform in the 1960s."
2001	Lara Freidenfelds (Harvard University), "Technology and the Production of Gendered and Classed Subjects: Tampons in the Twentieth Century United States."
2000	Devorah Slavin, "'Housekeeperly Instincts': 19th Century Women Inventors and the Myth of the Ingenious Woman."
1999	Greg Downey, "Human Labor and Human Geography in the Study of Information Internetworks."
1998	Nina Wormbs, "A New Technology to Save Old Values: The Nordic Direct Broadcasting Satellite."
1997	Thomas Kaiserfeld, "Mining, Manure and the Military: The Science of Saltpeter and Gunpowder."
1996	Killian Anheuser, "Fire-Guilding—Technology of an Ancient Craft."
1995	Barbara L. Allen, "Oil and Water: An Environmental and Cultural History of the Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana."
1994	Greg Clancey, "The Balloon Frame Revisited: Mechanization, Mass Production, and Prefabrication in American Building-Carpentry."
1993	Regina Blaszczyk, "Reign of Robots: The Homer Laughlin China Company and Flexible Mass Production, 1916-1948."
1992	Molly Berger, "Leaving the Light On: The Modern Hotel in America."
1991	Brett Steele, "A Pioneering Engineer: Benjamin Robins and Eighteenth Century Ballistics."
1990	Meg Sondey, "An Initial Investigation of Welded Homes in the United States."
1989	Arwen Mohun, "Women Workers and the Mechanization of Steam Laundries."
1988	Raman Srinivasan, "Technology Sits Cross-Legged: The History of the Jaipur Foot."
1987	Diane Q. Webb, "Two Paths to Building National Science and Technology Capabilities: South Korea and Brazil, 1960-1985."
1986	James H. Capshew, "Engineering a Technology of Behavior: B.F. Skinner's Kamikaze Pigeons in World War II."
1985	Not presented
1984	Susan Smulyan, "The Rise and Fall of the Happiness Boys: Sponsorship, Technology, and Early Radio Programming."
1983	Larry Owens, "Vannevar Bush and the Differential Analyzer: The Text and Academic Context of an Early Computer."
1982	Mona Spangler Phillips, "Geometry in Gothic Design."
1981	Christopher Hamlin, "Recycling as a Goal of Sewage Treatment in 19th Century Britain."
1980	J. Lauritz Larson, "Inventing Technological Systems: A Railway Example."