The Forum for History of Human Science (FHHS) and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Science (JHBS) encourage researchers in their early careers to submit unpublished manuscripts for the annual John C. Burnham Early Career Award, named in honor of this prominent historian of the human sciences and past-editor of JHBS. The publisher provides the author of the paper an honorarium of US $500 (see details below).
Here are the guidelines for the award: Unpublished manuscripts dealing with any aspect of the history of the human sciences are welcome. Eligible scholars are those who do not hold tenured university positions (or equivalent); graduate students and independent scholars are encouraged to submit. “Early career” is interpreted to include the period up to seven years beyond the Ph.D. Since competition may be high in any given year, people are encourage to re-submit in subsequent years, as long as the manuscript has not been already submitted to some other journal and the submitting scholar is still in early career. The paper submitted is the most important aspect of the competition, but since this is an “early career award,” the prize committee will also consider professional activities, including (though not limited to) participation in annual meetings of the History of Science Society and other scholarly work. The paper must meet the publishing guidelines of the JHBS; for example, conference papers would have to be revised and expanded to article length. The committee will acknowledge receipt of each submission and will promptly confirm its eligibility. The committee's selection of the prizewinner (the nominee to JHBS editors) will be announced at the annual History of Science Society meeting (held October or November). (If there are no submissions of suitable quality in any given year, no award will be given for that year.) The winning article will be submitted to JHBS with FHHS endorsement and will 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. Although it is technically possible that someone might win the Burnham Early Career Award and not receive the honorarium, FHHS and JHBS do not expect this to happen under normal circumstances.
Deadline: Submit manuscript and curriculum vitae (PDF format by email) by June 15, to weidman@fas.harvard.edu. Further information @ http://www.fhhs.org
The Forum for History of Human Science awards a prize (a nonmonetary honor) for the best article published recently on some aspect of the history of the human sciences. The prize alternates annually in rotation with the Forum's prize for best doctoral dissertation. The winner of the prize (dissertation or article, as scheduled for that year) is announced at the annual History of Science Society meeting, held in October or November. Winners are publicized in the FHHS Newsletter and in newsletters and journals of several other organizations (HSS and Cheiron, for example).
Entries are encouraged from authors in any discipline, as long as the work is related to the history of the human sciences, broadly construed. To be eligible, the article must have been published within the three years previous to the year of the award. The FHHS article prize is awarded in odd-numbered years and the FHHS Dissertation Prize is awarded in even-numbered years.
The Forum for History of Human Science 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, November 6-8 in Pittsburgh, and the prize will be publicized in the FHHS Newsletter 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, 2005, 2006, or 2007. Send three copies of the dissertation (PDF format on CD, if possible) by June 15, 2008, to Nadine Weidman, Secretary of FHHS, 138 Woburn St., Medford MA 02155. Further information at http://www.fhhs.org