AHA Award Recipients

Fellowship in Aerospace History


YEAR FELLOW RESEARCH TOPIC
2008-09 Jenifer Van Vleck No Distant Places: Commercial Aviation and American Globalism, 1915-1968
2007-08 Slava Gerovitch Designing a Cosmonaut: The Technopolitics of Automation in the Soviet Human Space Program
2006-07 Victoria Vantoch Ambassadors of the Air: The Airline Stewardess, Glamour, and Technology in the Cold War, 1945-1969
2005-06 Alexander Brown Accidents, Engineering and History at NASA, 1967–2003
2004-05 Amy Foster Sex in Space: The First Class of Women Astronauts
2003-04 Asif A. Siddiqi Interrelationship between technology, modernization, and the state in post-revolutionary Russia
2002-03 Yasushi Sato Nature and structure of engineering communities and practices. Comparative study of NASA's four major centers in the 1960s
2001-02 David Courtwright Frontiers
2000-01 Ryan McMillen Putting the Angels Back in Heaven:  NASA’s Resacralization of Outer Space, 1963-1986
1999-00 David H. Onkst The Triumph of the 'Squares': Grumman Engineers and Production Workers in the Space Race of the 1960s
1998-99 Hugh Slotten Communications, Satellites, Broadcasting, and Policy Decision-Making in the United States
1997-98 Margaret Weitekamp The Right Stuff, the Wrong Sex: The Science,Politics and Culture of the Lady Astronaut Trainees, 1959-1963
1996-97 Jill Snider Race, Aviation, and Foreign Policy: An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Three Latin American Goodwill Flights
1995-96 Stephen Waring The Space Shuttle Challenger Accident and Investigation
1994-95 Erik P. Rau From the Endless Frontier to the Final Frontier: The Promise and Practice of Systems Management through the Age of Apollo, 1958-1969
1993-94 Chris Hables Gray Cyborgs in Space: Space Research and the Spread of Cybernetic Organisms
1992-93 Suzanne Kolm The Cultural History of Flight Attendants in the United States, 1930-1978
1991-92 Roger Bilstein A History of the American Aerospace Industry
  Timothy R. Mahaney American Beatles: From Popular Culture to Counterculture
1990-91 * none
1989-90 David L. Hay Bomber Businessmen: The Army Air Forces and the Ascendancy of Quantitative Management Control
1988-89 Michael A. Dennis A Change of State: University Laboratories,Technical Knowledge, and the Shape of the American Polity, 1935-55
  Eric Schatzberg Technical Choice in American Transport Airplanes between the World Wars
1987-88 Glenn E. Bugos Testing the F-4 Phantom II: Engineering Practice in the Development of American Military Aircraft, 1954-72
1986-87 Norriss S. Hetherington The Ames Research Center: Intellectual, Political,and Military Origins

* declined: Robert Wohl, Aviation and the Western Imagination. DeWitt Douglas Kilgore, Beyond Earth: Visions of an American Future in Space, 1945-85.


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