Maurice Daumas Prize – ICOHTEC’s Article Prize

Call for submissions 2026

The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative scholarship in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture, and the environment. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.

The prize will be awarded to the author of the best article submitted which deals with the history of technology in any period of the past or in any part of the world and which was published in a journal or edited volume from 2024 to 2026. Eligible for the prize are original articles published in (or later translated into) any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). Submissions are welcomed from scholars of any country who are currently in graduate school or have received their doctorate within the last seven years. Please send your submission and a brief (not to exceed one-page) cv to the chair of the Prize Committee ( antonirocarosell@gmail.com ) no later than 22nd March 2026. The winner will be contacted in late June 2026.

The prize will be awarded at our 53rd Annual Meeting, will take place in Alexandroupolis, Greece, 8–11 October 2026. The winner will receive a cash prize of 500€. Alongside the first prize, papers in the second and third-ranking positions would receive an honorarium/diploma award.

The Daumas Prize is sponsored by the Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France.

MAURICE DAUMAS (1910 - 1984) – The French Trailblazer

The history of technology would never have become a prominent field of historical research without energetic pathbreakers. Maurice Daumas was one of them. One of his better known early works is: Les instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, which was also published in English. Between 1962 and 1978, he edited a highly acclaimed history of technology, Histoire générale des techniques, in five volumes, which has been translated into English and Spanish, and used as a textbook in various countries. In France, Daumas was also the pioneer of industrial archaeology. Daumas was the first secretary general of ICOHTEC and the host of its symposium at Pont- à-Mousson in 1970.

For further information about Maurice Daumas:

https://www.persee.fr/doc/rhs_0151-4105_1984_num_37_3_2044

For information about ICOHTEC: http://www.icohtec.org

MAURICE DAUMAS PRIZE COMMITTEE 2026

• Antoni Roca-Rosell, Dr. [Prize Committee Chairperson]

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Email: antonirocarosell[at]gmail.com

• Rodrigo Booth, Dr.

Universidad de Chile, Chile

Email: rodrigo.booth[at]uchilefau.cl

• Guillermo Guajardo Soto, Dr.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Email: guillermo.guajardo[at]unam.mx

• Bertrand Guillaume, Prof.

Université de technologie de Troyes (UTT), France

Email: bertrand.guillaume[at]utt.fr

• Laurent Heyberger, Dr.

Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France

Email: laurent.heyberger[at]utbm.fr

• Cecilia Ibarra, Dr.

Universidad de Chile, Chile

Email: ceciliaibarra[at]uchile.cl

• Sarah Qidwai, Dr.

University of York, United Kingdom

Email: sarah.qidwai[at]york.ac.uk

• Thomas Schuetz, Dr.

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Email: thomas.schuetz[at]hi.uni-stuttgart.de

• Liliia Zemnukhova, Dr.

Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

Email: l.zemnukhova[at]gmail.com