The Robert Nesbit Graduate Student Paper Award is named in honor of long-time SAHMS member, Dr. Bob Nesbit, who has been a stalwart member of SAHMS nearly from its beginning. We recognize his many contributions to the organization and his consistent and steadfast leadership. The award named for him recognizes graduate student papers that engage with the scholarship of the history of medicine, science, and technology—or related fields—and that present a compelling contribution to the field. It is open to all graduate students who present at the annual conference, and we invite our winners to publish in the SAHMS journal.

TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK FOR THE PRIZE, EMAIL EDWARD SLAVISHAK: slavishak@susqu.edu

Recipients:

2025 - Nick Elwing (University of Alabama), “‘Lord have mercy on me! I have given the wrong medication’: Alabama’s Legal and Institutional March Towards Professionalization.”

2023 -  Ametasree Bhattacharya (West Virginia University), "Harnessing Objectivity: The Role of Political Propaganda in the Framing of Public Health in Bengal (1935-1955)"

2022 -  Shirley Kinney (University of Toronto), ""Prognosticating Rabies with Chickens in an Early Medieval Herbal"

2021 -  Ryan Barker (Purdue University), "Terra Australis Jam Cognita: Matthew Flinders and Exploration’s Constructed Environment"