WITH TRAVEL AWARD – A Call for “New Voices” in Technological History

The SHOT Special Interest Group Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel award for 2010. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. WITH invites applications from scholars presenting topics or perspectives underrepresented in SHOT as well as from individuals who can contribute to the annual meeting’s geographic and cultural diversity.

The 2010 SHOT meeting will be held in Tacoma, Washington, September 30-October 3, 2010. See http://historyoftechnology.org.

Eligibility for the WITH Travel Award is open to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Priorities for the WITH award will go to: (1) a scholar or graduate student new to SHOT belonging to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology; (2) a non-US, non-Western graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.

Up to two awards will be made.  Awardees will receive a check for $300, with the possibility of additional funds depending on the awardee’s stated need and WITH’s resources.

The winner(s) will also be honoured as our guest(s) at the annual WITH breakfast or lunch.  Application deadline for the WITH Travel Award is June 15, 2010. For more information and the application form, go to the WITH homepage at http://www.women-in-technological-history.net/ or contact Arwen Mohun, chair of the award committee, at Mohun@udel.edu.

Download the Announcement and Application:

2010 WITH Announcement (pdf) (doc)

2010 WITH Travel Award Application (pdf) (doc)

WITH TRAVEL AWARD - A Call for “New Voices” in Technological History

The SHOT Special Interest Group Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel award for 2009. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT]. WITH invites applications from scholars presenting topics or perspectives underrepresented in SHOT as well as from individuals who can contribute to the annual meeting’s geographic and cultural diversity.

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The 2009 SHOT meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 15-19, 2009. See http://historyoftechnology.org.

Eligibility for the WITH Travel Award is open to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Priorities for the WITH award will go to: (1) a scholar or graduate student new to SHOT belonging to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology; (2) a non-US, non-Western graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.

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The award will include registration for the Pittsburgh meeting, a year’s membership to SHOT and WITH, the WITH breakfast or lunch, the graduate student breakfast (if appropriate), and the awards banquet; the balance of funds will be allocated to travel expenses.

Application deadline for the WITH Travel Award is June 15, 2009. For more information and the application form, go to the WITH homepage at http://www.women-in-technological-history.net/ or contact Joan Rothschild, chair of the award committee, at jrjar@nyc.rr.com wanted dvd .

Download the Announcement and Application:

2009 WITH Announcement (PDF) (DOC)

2009 WITH Travel Award Application (PDF) (DOC)

The SHOT Special Interest Group Women in Technological History [WITH] announces its travel grant for 2008. The purpose of the award is to encourage participation of “new voices” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology [SHOT].

The 2008 meeting will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-14, 2008 (See http://www.historyoftechnology.org/annualmtg.html)

“New voices” seeks topics or perspectives underrepresented in SHOT, and invites scholars from underrepresented constituencies, geographic and cultural. Eligibility for the WITH Travel Award is open to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Graduate students and other scholars new to SHOT are particularly encouraged to apply for the award. Seeking to foster exchange of ideas among cultures and to help broaden the intellectual scope of our field, the WITH Travel Award will support papers that especially consider questions of ethnicity, gender, and modes of difference in the history of technology, and scholars who come from non-US and non-Western venues.

The award will include registration for the Lisbon meeting, a year’s membership to SHOT and WITH, the WITH breakfast or lunch, the graduate student breakfast (if appropriate), and the awards banquet; the balance of funds will be allocated to travel expenses.

Priorities for the WITH award will go to:

1. a scholar or graduate student new to SHOT belonging to a group underrepresented in SHOT, whose paper addresses issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and/or difference in the history of technology;
2. a non-US, non-Western graduate student or scholar new to SHOT presenting on any topic.

The WITH award is to be granted to individuals who are giving a paper at the SHOT annual meeting. Deadline for papers-proposals for the SHOT 2008 annual meeting is March 14, 2008, for further information please see http://shotnews.net/?p=401.

How to apply:

Download an application form:
WITH_travel_award_form_08.pdf
WITH_travel_award_form_08.doc

The application deadline for the WITH Travel Award will be June 15th 2008.

For more information about the WITH Travel Award and the application form, please go to the WITH-Homepage at http://www.women-in-technological-history.net or contact Martina Blum, email: t7911ai@mail.lrz-muenchen.de.

Dr. Martina Blum
Zentralinstitut für Geschichte der Technik
c/o Deutsches Museum
80306 München

Travel Award History

The WITH Travel Award was established in 2005. The winners to date:

2005: Tanfer Emin-Tunc, “Beyond the First Trimester: Technological Change in Mid to Late Term Pregnancy Termination” Ph.D. candidate, SUNY at Stony Brook

2006: Mara Mills, “’The Deaf May Lead the Way’: Sound Spectography and Visible Speech” Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, Department of the History of Science

2007: No award.

2008: Could be you!