In association with SHOT, Envirotech has established the Envirotech Prize to recognize the best article, published in either a journal or edited volume, on the relationship between technology and the environment in history. We are particularly seeking innovative publications that explore new ways of thinking about the interplay between technological systems and the natural environment. Articles may be submitted in any language; however, for articles not written in English, the applicant will need to provide a translation. Younger scholars are especially encouraged to submit their publications.

The prize is given out every year and a half (alternating between SHOT and ASEH conferences). The winner receives a $250 award. The next award will be given at the ASEH 2010 conference in Portland, Oregon. The deadline for the 2010 award is November 15, 2009. Submit a copy of your article to prize@envirotechweb.org for consideration.

Previous winners

2008 – Paul Sutter, “Nature’s Agents or Agents of Empire? Entomological Workers and Environmental Change during the Construction of the Panama Canal,” Isis 98 (2007): 724-754. (read citation)

2007 - Joe Anderson, “War on Weeds: Iowa Farmers and Growth Regulator Herbicides,” Technology & Culture 46.4 (October 2005): 719-744.

2005 – Sara Pritchard, “Reconstructing the Rhone: The Cultural Politics of Nature and Nation in Contemporary France, 1945-1997,” French Historical Studies 27.4 (Fall 2004): 765-799 and Roger Horowitz, “Making the Chicken of Tomorrow,” in Industrializing Organisms (Routledge, 2003)

2004 – Jessica B. Teisch, “Great Western Power, ‘White Coal,’ and Industrial Capitalism in the West,” Pacific Historical Review 70 (May 2001): 221-253.