• Awards, Prizes & Grants
• Special Interest Groups
• International Scholars Program
• Travel Grants

• Benefits of Membership
• Member Services
• Officers, Committees, and Governance

Guidance for Aspiring Presenters

• How to Get Your Proposal Accepted at SHOT (PDF)
• How to Give an Academic
  Paper (PDF)
• How to Give an Academic Talk

Travel Grants

The Society for the History of Technology normally awards some grants to support travel to its annual meeting. The program is focused on graduate students, independent scholars, and young professionals just beginning their careers, as well as SHOT International Scholars. Eligible members residing outside the US, Canada, and Western Europe are especially encouraged to apply.

The travel fund was initiated by Hugh Aitken in 1988 and has been supported by individual SHOT members, royalties from two anthologies of articles from Technology and Culture, and generous contributions from the Dibner Fund. Additional funds come from the National Science Foundation.

Travel grant funds may be used only for travel expenses and basic conference registration. Grant funds may not be used for tours, the awards banquet, lodging, or meals. SHOT grants are not meant to cover the full cost of attending meetings; they are intended as encouragement, not a complete subsidy. Reimbursement normally will be made upon submission of travel receipts to the SHOT secretary after the meeting; in exceptional circumstances reimbursement may be made in advance of the meeting.

Grants may range up to $750 for travel on the same continent (for example, to Pittsburgh, from within elsewhere in North America) and up to $1,000 for travel from a different continent. Under special circumstances, which should be explained in the application, the committee may make a larger grant for international travel. Amounts depend in part on the number of applications, and the committee may make partial awards.

Please note that HSS and 4S also award NSF grants and that you may not receive more than one travel grant in a calendar year. We regularly receive more grant requests than we can fulfill. Submitting this application does not guarantee that you will receive a grant.

Eligibility

SHOT's travel grants are intended to assist younger members of the field who face the most severe constraints in finding travel support. The committee considers applicants in this order of priority:

1. Current SHOT International Scholars
2. Graduate students
3. Scholars from outside the United States and Canada and Western Europe who are part of the annual meeting, without regard to their academic rank or position
4. Postdocs, independent scholars, temporary faculty, adjunct faculty, and part-time faculty (in all cases not more than five years past their terminal degree)
5. Members of the field who are currently unemployed
6. Retired members of the society
7. Assistant professors not more than six years past their Ph.D.

All travel grant recipients must be participating in the meeting program in some capacity. In order of descending priority, the committee will consider whether an applicant is:

1. Giving a paper and conducting society business, including organizing a session
2. Giving a paper, including at a "Works-in-Progress" session
3. Commenting at a session and doing society business
4. Commenting at a session
5. Moderating a session and doing society business
6. Doing society business (serving on a committee, etc.) or moderating a session

Current SHOT International Scholars are strongly encouraged to apply for travel support even if they are not on the program.

Only current SHOT members may apply. If you are not currently a SHOT member, you may join the society or renew an expired membership. If you are unsure of your current membership status, call the Johns Hopkins University Press Journal Division at 1-800-548-1784 (U.S. and Canada only) or (410) 516-6987 (all others) or e-mail jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu

Preference will be given to those who have not received a SHOT travel grant in the past.

Application

Application forms are available in PDF or MS Word. E-mail applications are greatly encouraged. The completed application form must be emailed to shottravelfund@gmail.com AND the SHOT office, at shot@virginia.edu. Alternatively, the completed form may be mailed to:
SHOT Office
Dept. of Science, Technology, & Society
University of Virginia,
PO Box 400744
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4744 USA

Graduate students must also have their adviser send an e-mail to the selection committee at shottravelfund@gmail.com AND the SHOT office at shot@virginia.edu, certifying that the student is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program.

Deadline for applications and endorsements is 15 June 2012. The Secretary will notify recipients at the beginning of August.

2012 Committee on Young Scholars Travel Fund:

Sabine Höhler (2012-14) sabine.hoehler@abe.kth.se	Erik Rau, Chair erau@hagley.org
Leslie Tomory, ltomory@gmail.com	Hugh Gorman (ex officio) hsgorman@mtu.edu

2011 Travel Grant recipients:

Colin Agur, Columbia University Alexandra Bekasova, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia Lynn Berger, Columbia University Andrew Bozanic, University of Delaware Cari Casteel, Auburn University Christina Dunbar-Hester, New York University Leif Fredrickson, University of Virginia Yulia Frumer, Princeton University Francesco Gerali, National University of Mexico Sophie Gerber, Deutsches Museum Katie Day Good, Northwestern University Hansen Hsu, Cornell University Har Ye Kan, Harvard University Nina Lorkowski, Deutsches Museum Simeon Maravanyika, Wageningen University Erinn McComb, Mississippi State University Sharrona Pearl, University of Pennsylvania Richard Perry, Elon University Joanna Radin, University of Pennsylvania Lisa Ruth Rand, University of Pennsylvania Madhumita Saha, Iowa State University Jaume Sastre-Juan, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Matteo Serafini, University of Bologna Ignacio Siles, Northwestern University Darla Thompson, Cornell University Honghong Tinn, Cornell University Leslie Tomory, McGill University Henry Trim, University of British Columbia Heidi Tworek, Harvard University Jawn Tze-hin Lim, Harvard University Liesbeth Van der Grift, Utrecht University Patryk Wasiak, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam Peter Zelchenko, University of Chicago

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