The Winners
Laudatio
The Maurice Daumas prize was created in 2011 to award the best history of technology papers published by young scholars. It is sponsored by the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), in France. This prize attracts a great interest among young researchers around the world. The papers presented show the dynamism and the high standard of the young scholars.
In the 2024 appeal, 11 papers from scholars working in 7 countries had been presented. The subjects deal with a number of interesting questions in several fields of history of technology, including social and political discussions: The Retreat from ‘High Technology’ in Post-War Britain; Motorization of Small Scale Agriculture in Galicia, Spain, in 1939-2000; Electricity, Agency and Class In Lagos Colony, c.1860s–1914; The Opposition to Solar Techniques in Architecture as a Case of Persistence and Renewal of Mentalities; Instrumental Jawārī: On Gender, Slavery, and Technology in Medieval Arabic Sources; Finalism and Design in Étienne OEhmichen, 1884-1955; Integrating Interwar Czechoslovaquia. A View from Slovakian Roads;
French Tile Workshops in the XIX Century; French and German Seaplanes in Flanders during the I World War; Games and the Rise of Systems Thinking; Technical Leadership and Sanitary Renewal in Mexico City from 1953.
Given that the papers presented were published in peer-reviewed journals and books, the standard of all of them is very high. Thus, the committee has had actual difficulties to select the best among the papers presented.
In 10 May 2024, after the corresponding deliberations, the committee has decided to award a paper and an honorarium mention.
Thus, the ICOHTEC Maurice Daumas Article Prize 2024 (the fourteenth) is awarded to:
Adewumi Damilola Adebayo “Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, c.1860s–1914”, Past & Present, no. 262 (February 2024), p. 168-206.
Adewumi Damilola Adebayo is Assistant Professor, Department of History, York University, Toronto, Canada. From 2008 to 2012 he studied his bachelor of arts in the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Afterwards, from 2014 to 2016, he gained his M.A. on International History at the Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland. From 2016 to 2020 he prepared his Ph.D. on History, at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Damilola Adebayo is a historian of Anglophone West Africa, particularly Nigeria. His research and teaching interests are at the intersection of three fields namely social and economic history; science, technology and society (STS); and the role of international organizations in the African past.
An honorarium mention is given to:
Marcos Camolezi “« Si nous avions à construire un oiseau… » : finalisme et dessin chez Étienne Œhmichen, 1884-1955”, in: Jérôme Baudry, Valérie Nègre (dir.) Dessiner la technique, Pensée et discours visuels (XVIe-XXe siècles), Paris, Presses des Mines, collection Histoire, sciences, techniques et sociétés, 2024, p. 197-227.
Marcos Camolezi is Teaching assistant at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. From 2006 to 2010 he studied his Bachelor of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo. From 2011 to 2017 he gained a double degree as PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His expertise is the fields of History of science and technology, philosophy of science and technology; history of ideas; history of French publishing; history of the construction of scientific instruments.
We received 11 applications, 5 in English, 4 in French, and 2 in Spanish from 8 countries.
Antoni Roca Rosell
Call for Submissions
The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative scholarship in the history of technology.
ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture, and the environment. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.
The prize will be awarded to the author of the best article submitted which deals with the history of technology in any period of the past or in any part of the world and which was published in a journal or edited volume from 2022 to 2024. Eligible for the prize are original articles published in (or later translated into) any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). Submissions are welcomed from scholars of any country who are currently in graduate school or have received their doctorate within the last seven years. Please send your submission and a brief (not to exceed one-page) cv to the chair of the Prize Committee ( antoni.roca-rosell@upc.edu ) no later than 1st March 2024. The winner will be contacted in late May 2024.
The prize will be awarded at our 51 st Annual Meeting, will take place in Viña del Mar, Chile, in person and also virtually, from 9 to 14 July 2024. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). The winner will receive a cash prize of 500€. Alongside the first prize, papers in the second and third-ranking positions would receive an honorarium/diploma award.
The Daumas Prize is sponsored by the Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France.
The Prize Committee:
Antoni Roca-Rosell (Chair) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
antoni.roca-rosell@upc.edu
Guillermo Guajardo Soto, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
guillermo.guajardo@unam.mx
Bertrand Guillaume, Université de Technologie Troyes
guillaume@crans.org
Eike-Christian Heine, Historical Institute of the Universität der Bundeswehr München
eikechristian.heine@googlemail.com
Laurent Heyberger, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
laurent.heyberger@utbm.fr
Sarah Qidwai, Universität Regensburg
sarahaqidwai@gmail.com
Thomas Schuetz, University of Stuttgart
thomas.schuetz@hi.uni-stuttgart.de
Liliia Zemnukhova, Dr, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
l.zemnukhova@gmail.com