UChicago historians win two major prizes at the HSS annual meeting

At this year’s History of Science Society annual meeting, which just took place in New Orleans, UChicago historians won two of the society's major awards. Professor Adrian Johns, won the Pfizer Prize for his book, The Science of Reading, and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj, a PhD student, received the Rainger Prize for the best early career work on the history of the earth and environmental sciences, for a paper he co-wrote with Associate Professor Elizabeth Chatterjee, “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene,” in Past & Present 268:1 (August 2025), 181-224. The Pfizer is the field’s primary annual book prize, and Prof. Johns is the first UChicago person since 1999 to receive the award. Congratulations!