Subject: CASTAC - Forsythe Prize (Hess)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:06:48 -0500
From: Joseph Dumit <dumit@MIT.EDU>
To: castac <castac-l@mitvma.mit.edu>

Dear CASTAC Members:

A prize to honor the memory of Diana Forsythe is being created.  The
bulk of the endowment for the prize will come from Bern Shen, but
contributions will be welcomed from others.  A subcommittee of CASTAC
consisting of Hess, Dumit, Downey, Suchman, and Hakken has put together
proposed wording for the prize.  If you would like to contribute to
deliberations on the wording for the prize, would you please contact me
with your suggestions?  The proposed wording is attached below.

Thanks,

David Hess
Chair, CASTAC

The Diana Forsythe Prize shall be given to celebrate the best book or
series of published articles most in the spirit of Diana's Forsythe's
feminist anthropological research on work, science, and/or technology,
including biomedicine.

The prize will be awarded annually.  It will consist of a cash amount
and a certificate.

The committee awarding the prize will consist of three members, two from
CASTAC (or its successor organization) and one from SAW (or its
successor organization), with the understanding that among the the
members research in the fields of science, technology, and work will be
represented.  The prize will be considered a joint prize of CASTAC and
SAW.