Call for Nominations: 2015 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize

Envirotech, a special interest group within the Society for the History of Technology and the American Society for Environmental History, invites nominations for the 2015 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Article Prize. The Tarr Prize recognizes the best article published in either a journal or article collection on the relationship between technology and the environment in the past. The prize committee will consider all publications that address the intersections of environment and technology and is particularly interested in those that give new insights into interactions between histories and their publics. Articles originally published in any language are welcome, but applicants must provide a translation of non-English articles. To be eligible for the 2015 prize, the article must be published between June 16, 2014 and November 15, 2015.

The Tarr Prize carries a cash award of $350 and will be conferred at the American Society for Environmental History meeting in Seattle, Washington.

Send one copy of your article and a brief curriculum vitae (one page Word or PDF files only please) to tarrprize2015@gmail.com to be considered. The deadline for submissions is December 18, 2015. Winners will be announced in early February.