Victor Seow Wins Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History

Faculty Associate Victor Seow, associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2023 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History for his book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press). The prize committee deemed Seow’s book “to be a highly original study emphasizing the centrality of energy extraction to questions of international politics, war, and diplomacy.” The award was presented at the annual SHAFR (Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations) Conference.