ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars [2016]
The ICOHTEC-Book (Dissertation) Prize is sponsored by
the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 2,500 Euro. The prize winning
book will be presented and discussed at a special session of the next ICOHTEC
symposium, in Porto, Portugal, from 26 to 30 July 2016. An additional
500 Euro is available to the winner in support of travelling to the conference
to receive the prize.
ICOHTEC, the
International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the
history of technology, focusing on technological development as well as its
relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The
history of technology covers all periods of human history and all populated
areas. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.
Eligible for
the prize are original book-length works in any of the official ICOHTEC
languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish) in the history of
technology: published or unpublished Ph.D. dissertations or other monographs
written by scholars who, when applying for the prize, are not older than 37
years. Articles and edited anthologies are not eligible.
For the
ICOHTEC Prize 2016, please send an electronic copy (Pdf or Word) of the work
you wish to be considered for the prize to each of the three Prize Committee
members. (Note: Hard copies are only accepted for published works not available
electronically.) Your submissions must be emailed no later than 15 February
2016. If your book is in Spanish or Russian, please also supply a summary
in English, French or German of about 4500 words. In that case, the prize
committee will find additional members, who are familiar with the language in
which your book is written. Please also include an abstract of no more
than a half-page in length.
If the work
is a Ph.D. thesis, it should have been accepted by your university in 2014 or 2015;
if it is a published work, the year of publication should be 2014 or 2015. The
submission should be accompanied by a CV (indicating also the date of birth)
and, if applicable, a list of publications. Applicants are free to add
references or reviews on the work submitted.
Any
materials sent to the prize committee will not be returned.
Send a
complete application by email to each of the following Prize Committee
members:
Dr. David Zimmerman, Prize Committee Chair
Professor of Military History at the University of Victoria
Department of History
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4
Canada
E-mail: dzimmerm@uvic.ca
Professor of Military History at the University of Victoria
Department of History
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4
Canada
E-mail: dzimmerm@uvic.ca
Dr. Jeremy Kinney
Curator, Aeronautics Department,
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
P.O. 37012, MRC 312
Washington, DC 20013-7012
USA
E-mail: kinneyj@si.edu
Curator, Aeronautics Department,
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
P.O. 37012, MRC 312
Washington, DC 20013-7012
USA
E-mail: kinneyj@si.edu
Dr. Klaus Staubermann
Principal Curator of Technology
National Museums of Scotland
Chambers Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1JF
UK
E-mail: K.Staubermann@nms.ac.uk
Principal Curator of Technology
National Museums of Scotland
Chambers Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1JF
UK
E-mail: K.Staubermann@nms.ac.uk
Dr. Irina
Gouzevitch
Centre Maurice Halbwachs
École Normale Supérieure
48, boulevard Jourdan
75014 PARIS
E-mail: igouzevitch@ens.fr
Centre Maurice Halbwachs
École Normale Supérieure
48, boulevard Jourdan
75014 PARIS
E-mail: igouzevitch@ens.fr
2015 : Karena
Kalmbach, Meanings of a Disaster: The Contested 'Truth' about Chernobyl.
British and French Chernobyl Debates and the Transnationality of Arguments and
Actors, a dissertation completed in September 2014 at the European
University Institute, Florence, Department of History and Civilization.
2014 : Dora
Vargha, Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: Governing Polio in Cold War Hungary
1952-1963, a dissertation completed at Rutgers University in 2013, under
the direction of Paul Hanebrink.
2013 : Laura
Ann Twagira, Women and Gender at the Office du Niger (Mali),
dissertation defended at Rutgers University.
2012 : Hermione
Giffard, The development and production of turbojet aero-engines in
Britain, Germany and the United States, 1936-1945, dissertation defended at
Imperial College, University of London, in 2011 (not yet published)
2011: Christopher Neumaier, Dieselautos
in Deutschland und den USA, Zum Verhältnis von Technologie, Konsum und Politik,
1949 –2005 (Stuttgart, 2010).
2010 : Anne-Katrine Ebert, Ein Ding der Nation? Das Fahrrad
in Deutschland und den Niederlanden, 1880-1940: Eine vergleichende
Konsumgeschichte, dissertation defended at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
2009 : Anna
Storm, Hope and Rust: Reinterpreting the Industrial Place in the Late
20th Century (Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology, 2008).