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Awards, Grants & Distinctions

Selection of The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (Oxford UP 2012, Eds. T. Pinch & K. Bijsterveld) for CHOICE (Current Reviews for Academic Libraries) List of Outstanding Academic Titles 2012.

NWO Nomination and Selection for AcademiaNet 2012 (Expert Database of Outstanding Female Scientists and Scholars, Robert Bosch Stiftung), see http://www.academianet.de/ and http://www.academia-net.Org/alias/Profil/Prof-Dr-K-Th-Biisterveld/l 163375.

NWO Cultural Dynamics Outreach Grant 2011 (€ 5,000) for Workshop Staging Sound in the Museum (K. Bijsterveld & A. Fickers).

Citation of honour as finalist (“runner-up”) in the competition 2010 for the Sidney M. Edelstein Award by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) for Bijsterveld, K. Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 2008).

Maastricht University Incentive Grant 2010 (€ 200,000) for a post-doc position in the NWO project Sonic Skills, see below (K. Bijsterveld).

NWO VICI Grant 2010 (€ 1,069,000) for Sonic Skills: Sound and Listening in the Development of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1920-now (K. Bijsterveld).

Maastricht University A-Status Grant 2009 (€ 25,000) for Sonic Skills: Sound and Listening in the Development of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1920-now, assessed as eligible (excellent/very good) for funding in the VICI-NWO competition, but not funded (K. Bijsterveld).

NWO Cultural Dynamics Grant 2008 (€ 464,900) for Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage (K. Bijsterveld & A. Fickers).

NWO Language Correction Grant 2007 (€ 3,500) for Bijsterveld, K. (2008). Mechanical Sound. Technology, Culture and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 2008).

NWO Cultural Dynamics Elaboration Grant 2007 (€ 1,600) for the Workshop Soundscapes of the Urban Past, Maastricht, September 7, 2007 (K. Bijsterveld & A. Fickers).

Maasticht University A-Status Grant 2007 (€ 25,000) for K. Bijsterveld, The Sound of Europę: Recording Amateurs and the Invention of Europę on Tape, Individual Project 4 in the ESF-Eurocores proposal Transmitting and Receiving Europę (EUROTRANS), assessed as internationally competitive, but not liinded by ESF (A. Fickers, N. Wormbs, F. Hausjell, K. Bijsterveld & C. Henrich-Franke).

NWO Open Competition in the Humanities Grant 2006 (€ 413,504) for Selling Sound: The Standardization of Sound in the European Car Industry and the Hidden Integration of Europę (K. Bijsterveld & G. Mom).

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