NEWS | Boyd Ruamcharoen PhD ’25 wins SHOT Paper Prize

Boyd Ruamcharoen PhD ’25 wins SHOT Paper Prize

Boyd Ruamcharoen PhD ’25 has been awarded the Society for the History of Technology’s (SHOT) Bernard S Finn IEEE History Prize. Given annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology, the prize recognizes Ruamcharoen’s article “Tropicalizing the Portable Radio: Electronics and the US Military’s Battle against Fungi in the Pacific War.” The article appeared in the April 2024 issue of Technology and Culture.

Ruamcharoen is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. The HASTS community congratulates him on this wonderful achievement.