Forwarded to HES from H-Ideas by Ross Emmett 
 
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FORUM FOR HISTORY OF HUMAN SCIENCE ANNOUNCES DISSERTATION PRIZES 
 
        The Forum for History of Human Science (an interest group 
affiliated with the History of Science Society) has just awarded its 
second annual prize for the best recent dissertation in the history of 
the human sciences. The prize went to Lynette Louise Schumaker (Wellcome 
Unit for History of Medicine, Manchester), author of "The Lion in the 
Path: Fieldwork and Culture in the History of the Rhodes-Livingstone 
Institute, 1937-1964" (Department of History and Sociology of Science, 
University of Pennsylvania). The Forum's first annual dissertation prize 
(awarded fall 1994) went to John Carson (Science and Technology Studies, 
Cornell University) for his "Talents, Intelligence, and the Construction 
of Human Difference in France and America, 1750-1920" (Department of 
History, Princeton University).