Victor Seow Wins Sarton Prize for the History of Science

Faculty Associate Victor Seow, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ Sarton Prize for the History of Science. Recognized for his promise as an emerging scholar in the field, Seow “specializes in the history of technology, science, and industry, focusing on China and Japan in their global contexts, with particular interest in histories of energy and work.” His recent book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia, received multiple prizes across different fields.