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.