In association with SHOT, Envirotech has established a prize for articles published in the last three years. The Envirotech Prize recognizes the best article, including both journal articles and book chapters, on the relationship between technology and the environment in history published in the three previous calendar years. 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.

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.