2025 SHOT Awards
SHOT proudly announces the following 2025 Awards and Fellowships:
- 2025 Leonardo da Vinci Medal:
The Leonardo da Vinci Medal is the highest recognition from SHOT. It is presented to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the history of technology, through research, teaching, publications, service to the Society, and other activities. SHOT is extremely pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal is: John Krige, the Melvin Kranzberg Professor emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology. - 2025 Robinson Prize: The Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize is awarded annually for the best-presented paper by an individual delivering their first paper at the SHOT annual meeting. The 2025 Robinson Prize is awarded to: Jakob Henningsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): Will the Engineer Manage? The Early Years of Industrial Economy Education in Stockholm, 1911—1945.
- 2025 Mevin Kranzberg Fellowships: The Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship is presented annually to a doctoral student engaged in the preparation of a dissertation on the history of technology, broadly defined. This award is in memory of the co-founder of the Society and honors Melvin Kranzberg’s many contributions to developing the history of technology as a field of scholarly endeavor and SHOT as a professional organization. This year we had a very large number of applications of exceptional quality. The Kranzberg Committee in response proposed awarding two fellowships. The endowment which supports this fellowship, normally can support only a single award but with support of an anonymous gift (in memory of Marie Bashara) SHOT is able to support two awards this year.
- Karolina Partyga, Columbia University for her dissertation project titled: “Starting from Scrap. Material politics of Polish reconstruction and the industrial remaking of East Central Europe, 1944-1950.”
- Thomas McLamb, University of California, San Diego for his dissertation project titled: “The Ksara Observatory: Technology, the Observatory Sciences, and Private Property in Syria and Lebanon under French Mandate.”
- The 2025 Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship is awarded to Cecilia Passanti, Centre Population et Développement, Institut de recherche pour le développement, Université Paris Cité for her project “How Biometrics Became a Technology for Civilians (1950-1990): Notes on the Postcolonial History of the Biometric Industry.”
- The first SIGCIS Dissertation Fellowship in memory of Melvin Kranzberg has been awarded to Jeffrey Rubel, New York University for his dissertation project “The Dating Trade: A History of Technology-Mediated Dating in America.”