The Sidney Prize is an award given monthly for journalism that exposes social and economic injustices. Nominations are accepted each month and must be submitted by the last day of the month. The winner will be announced the following month.
Winners and finalists are presented with a medal, a certificate, and an STBA seal. Their works are also published in AJL and displayed at the Society’s annual meeting. In addition to the Sidney Prize, the Society offers a number of other literary prizes and fellowships, such as the Leonardo da Vindi Medal, Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship, Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize, Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize, Abbot Payson Usher Prize, Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize, Martha Trescott Prize, and the Race and Histories of Technologies Prize. More information on these can be found at the various prize pages.
In 2024, the Sydney Taylor Book Award is a special award recognizing an outstanding children’s book in any genre that reflects the values and ideals of the late New York Times and Newsday journalist and columnist Sydney Taylor. The award was founded by her widow, Jane Freiman Schanberg. It honors the legacy of excellence in journalism, and in particular, long-form investigative or enterprise reporting on armed conflicts; local, state or federal government corruption; military injustice; war crimes or sedition; or authoritarian governments.
Awarded for the best article in a journal on a topic of relevance to the field of history. The article should display scholarly quality, originality and significance in relation to the history of technology, broadly defined. It should have been written in the past three years, and it should be available for wide dissemination.
This prize honors a distinguished scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the advancement of historical studies of science and technology through research, teaching, service to the Society and other activities. It is named in memory of the late Dr. Sidney Hook.
Named in honor of Professor Sidney Thomas, the award is awarded annually to an undergraduate student for the best paper in art history. Named in honor of the former chairman of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Syracuse University, this award recognizes national distinction by a single scholar in the fields of history of science, undergraduate teaching and the promotion of liberal arts education.
The Hillman Foundation was established in 1984 to commemorate Baltimore businessman and humanitarian Sidney Hollander (1881-1972). The Hillman Foundation awards Hillman Prizes in the areas of dance, drama, comedy, music and opera, visual arts, photography and puppetry, as well as its monthly Sidney Prize for journalism on issues that affect people of all ages.
The Philip Sidney Ardern Memorial Prize is given in memory of the distinguished Old and Middle English teacher at Auckland University College. It is open to students of English at all levels and for papers on any aspect of the study of Old and Middle English, but not restricted to linguistics or literature.
