SHOT Awards and Fellowships 2024
SHOT is pleased to announce the 2024 Award and Fellowship winners. The fellowship will be announced during the SHOT Awards and Fellowships Event at the joint ICOHTEC-SHOT Annual Meeting that takes place 9-14 July in Viña del Mar (Chile). Citations will be published on the website after the conference. The ICOHTEC-SHOT Awards and Fellowships Event is scheduled for Saturday 13 July.
Please note that the recipients of the Hindle Fellowship and the Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize will be announced late June. The NASA Fellowships in Aerospace History will be announced by the American Historical Association.
SHOT Awards and Fellowships 2024
Da Vinci Medal
Bill Leslie (Johns Hopkins University)
Melvin Kranzberg Fellowship
Emre Karaşahan
For the project ‘Prophets of a Righteous Civilization: Re-imagining Technology with an Islamic Mindset, 1870-1950’
Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Hindle Fellowship will be announced late June.
NASA Fellowship
The NASA Fellowships will be announced by the American Historical Association.
Sidney Edelstein Prize
Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy, and Tiago Saraiva
For Moving Crops and the Scales of History (Yale University Press 2023)
Sally Hacker Prize
David Nemer
For Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (The MIT Press, 2022)
Abbot Payson Usher Prize
Faisal Husain
For “To Dam or Not to Dam: The Social Construction of an Ottoman Hydraulic Project, 1701-1702,” Technology and Culture 64, no. 2 (2023): 456-484.
Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize
Madeleine Ware
For “Kegel’s Perineometer: Reframing Vaginal Disability in the Postwar United States”
Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize
The Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize will be announced late June.
Martha Trescott Prize
Camilla Mørk Røstvik
For “Tampon Technology in Britain: Unilever’s Project Hyacinth and the ‘7-Day War’ Campaign, 1968–1980.” Technology and Culture 63, no. 1 (2022): 61–86
Race and Histories of Technologies Prize
Xin Peng
For the unpublished essay ‘The Chinaman and His Phone’: Noise, Gibberish, and the Telephone’s Social Use’