Call for 2019 Joel Tarr Envirotech Article Prize Nominations

Envirotech, a special interest group within the Society for the History of Technology and the American Society for Environmental History, invites nominations for the 2019 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 history.


To be eligible for this prize, the article must have been published between October 1, 2017, and March 31, 2019. Articles originally published in any language are welcome, but applicants must provide a translation of non-English articles. The Tarr Prize carries a cash award of $350 and will be conferred at the Society for the History of Technology meeting in Milan, Italy, October 24-27, 2019.


To apply, send your article and a brief curriculum vitae (one page Word or PDF files only please) to envirotechtarrprize@gmail.com. The deadline for nominations is June 15, 2019. The winner of the prize will be notified by the end of July.