Lawrence Badash Prize
DonateThe Lawrence Badash Prize recognizes the outstanding
graduate student essay in history of science, technology or
medicine in any era or geographical arena, or on
weapons control. It honors Lawrence Badash, Professor
Emeritus of the History of Science.
Present and previous recipients:
2012
Hanni Jalil Paier, "Sin Salud no es posible cultivar la tierra: Sanitary units and Rural Health
Commissions in Colombia, 1934-1938."
2011
Roger Eardley Pryor, “Better to Cry than Die?: the Paradoxes of Tear Gas in the Vietnam Era and Today.”
2010
Jill Briggs, "Birth Control in Jamaica."
2009
Nicole Pacino, "Healing the Nation: The Bolivian Revolution, Public Health, and the
Process of Nation Formation 1952-1964."
2008
Jill Briggs," ‘An Agreed-on Program:’ Eugenics and Public Discourse in the late 1930s.”
2007
Nicole Ann Archambeau, “The Cycle of Negative Emotions: Comparing Sufferers’
and University Trained Practitioners’ View of Tristitia.”
2006
Paul Hirsch, "Weird Science: Uncensored Representations of the Atomic Bomb in American Comics, 1945-1954.”
2005
Donald Raymond Burnette
2004
Jason Kelly, "The Society of Dilettanti."