The Forum for History of Human Science (FHHS) is an interest group of the History of Science Society (HSS).
During the past annual meeting of the History of Science Society in Phoenix, FHHS met for its business meeting on November 21, 2009, and awarded the following prizes:
2009 FHHS Article Award went to Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen (Roskilde University, Denmark),"Leopold Ranke's Archival Turn: Location and Evidence in Modern Historiography," Modern Intellectual History 5 (2008): 425-453.
2009 FHHS/JHBS John C. Burnham Early Career Award went to an Instructor at École Normale Supérieure, Paris: Stéphanie Dupouy, for her manuscript: “Darwin, Observer of Expressions,” now submitted for publication in JHBS.
After the business meeting the Forum and guests enjoyed the FHHS Distinguished Lecture, byHamilton Cravens (Iowa State U.): "Imagining the Good Society: The Social Sciences in the American Past and Present"
Call for submissions:
2010 FHHS/JHBS John C. Burnham Early Career Award
The Forum for History of Human Science (an interest group of the History of Science Society) invites submissions for the John C. Burnham Early Career Award for 2010. This award is intended for scholars, including graduate students, who do not hold a tenured position and are not more than seven years past the Ph.D. Unpublished manuscripts dealing with any aspect of the history of the human sciences are welcome. The winning article will be announced at the annual History of Science Society meeting, 4-7 November 2010, in Montreal, and will be submitted to the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences with FHHS endorsement, to undergo the regular review process; when the article is accepted for publication, the publisher of JHBS will announce the award and issue a US $500 honorarium. Email manuscript and curriculum vitae (PDF format) by June 15, 2010, to weidman@fas.harvard.edu. Further information athttp://www.fhhs.org 2010 FHHS Dissertation Award
The Forum for History of Human Science (an interest group of the History of Science Society) awards US $100 for the best doctoral dissertation in history of the human sciences. (This award alternates annually in rotation with the FHHS’s award for best published article.) Entries are encouraged from authors in any discipline, as long as the dissertation is related to the history of the human sciences, broadly construed. The winner will be announced at the annual History of Science Society meeting, 4-7 November 2010, in Montreal, and the prize will be publicized by FHHS and in publications of several other organizations (HSS and Cheiron, for example). To be eligible, the dissertation must have been formally filed within the three years previous to the year of the award—in this case, 2007, 2008, or 2009. Send three copies of the dissertation (PDF format on CD, if possible) by June 15, 2010, to Nadine Weidman, Secretary of FHHS,138 Woburn St., Medford MA 02155. Further information at http://www.fhhs.org
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