Polonsky academy fellow, Dr. Alma Igra is recipient of the Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy 2023 Early Career Prize for her article British Scientific Humanitarianism in Vienna: Milk and Standards in Exchange.
“The winner of the STAND Early Career Prize 2023 is an outstanding work in the field of humanitarianism, in the interwar period. It is well researched, based on evidence, and draws interesting conclusions relating to the historical and the historiographical scene on international nutrition. This paper explores a novel topic in relation to science diplomacy, considering food and food related problems on an international and global scale. By doing so, the author also integrates discussion of scientific issues such as standardization, questioning the linearity of scientific objectivity. Another contribution of this paper was its analysis of a case focusing on the early interwar period, a period that has not featured prominently in scholarship on science diplomacy.”