SHOT is greatly saddened by the passing of Professor Joy Parr, a luminous member of our community. Joy Parr’s exceptional scholarship earned her many awards throughout her career, including SHOT’s 2011 Edelstein Prize for Sensing Changes:Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (University of British Columbia Press, 2010). In 2018 SHOT awarded her the da Vinci…
Read MoreDear SHOT community, It appears that a side-effect of presidenting a professional society is vulnerability to impersonation by spam bots. This is just to confirm what you’ve probably already figured out: any recent injunctions you may have received to get in touch with me right away are nothing more than the electronic version of canned…
Read MoreThe ASU Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes in Washington, DC has a position available for a postdoctoral research scholar (“postdoc”) for 2024-2025 to join a project examining the history of science and technology policy (S&T policy) in the United States. The project is led by CSPO Director Prof. Arthur Daemmrich and is funded through…
Read MoreThe School of History and Sociology (https://hsoc.gatech.edu) at Georgia Tech invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor, one in the History of Science, Technology, or Medicine and a second in the Sociology of Science, Technology, or Medicine. We seek candidates with expertise in twentieth and/or twenty-first century science, technology,…
Read MoreCFR’s David Rockefeller Studies Program has launched a search for a fellow or senior fellow for technology (NY). The David Rockefeller Studies Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is seeking to hire a fellow or senior fellow for technology, with the title depending on the successful candidate’s level of experience. The fellow will…
Read MoreThe 65th annual meeting of the Midwest Junto for the History of Science will be held 22-24 March, 2024 at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. For more than six decades, the Midwest Junto has fostered an informal, congenial environment where students, faculty, independent scholars, and other research professionals can gather to discuss their research.…
Read MoreDear SHOT community, It was a delight to see some 300 of you in Los Angeles! Despite many unexpected hurdles, everyone I’ve talked to agrees that the meeting as a whole was a huge success, in no small part thanks to the sheer joy of finally coming together. We were especially happy to welcome many…
Read MoreSHOT GLOBAL COMMUNITY SCHOLARS 2023-2025 Each year, SHOT designates selected Global Community Scholars for a two-year term. These scholars act as ambassadors for the society in their countries and regions, both by informing SHOT about the history of technology in their regions, and by helping to disseminate information about the society and its activities. In…
Read MoreJoint annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 9-14 July 2024 in Viña del Mar, Chile Reparando / Repair in the History of Technology The technological environments we inhabit require continual repair and maintenance in order to function. Yet the people…
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