For the 2019 prize, the Award Committee received 62 books to consider for the prize and shortlisted 7 works. Books were evaluated for their overall scholarly quality, their contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies, and their capacity to cast social or political issues in a new light. The Committee chose Aya Kimura’s book Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination (Duke University Press, 2016).
Committee members feel the volume of books to review has become unmanageable. For the 2021 prize, nominations must be made by a 4s member and not from a book press. We are also working with the Fleck Prize committee to better distinguish between the two prizes since books are often submitted for both.
2019 Carson Prize Committee: Roopali Phadke (Chair, Macalester College, US), Gloria Baigorrotegui, (Univ. de Santiago de Chile, Chile), Gwen Ottinger (Drexel Univ., US) , and Rohit Negi (Ambedkar Univ., Delhi, India)
