The European Society for the History of the Human Sciences is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Early Career Award.

This year, the award attracted an unusually large number of submissions of a very high standard, making the selection process especially challenging. In recognition of the exceptional quality of the applications, the jury decided to award two joint prizes.

The winning papers are:

Jimin Choi, “Putting Psychoanalysis in Its Place: The Ambiguity of Telephone Use in Freudian Psychoanalytic Training in South Korea, 1980–2010”
D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia; Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

and

Cecile Judith Hauser, “Specimen of Reality: Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Aggression in the Kalahari”
Doctoral Candidate, Chair of the History of Science, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

ESHHS warmly congratulates both winners on this excellent achievement!