The 2019 Edge Prize for an exemplary STS article (published 2017-2018)
has been awarded to Professor Etienne Benson (University of
Pennsylvania). His article, "A Centrifuge of Calculation: Managing Data
and Enthusiasm in Early Twentieth-Century Bird Banding,” was published
in Osiris.
This selection is also timely given the article’s focus on
collaboration between diversely situated knowledge-makers, depending on
“a fragile balance between the centripetal effects of national
coordination and the centrifugal effects of volunteer enthusiasm.”