The Society for American City & Regional Planning History (SACRPH), an interdisciplinary society of scholars and planning practitioners, announces its biennial awards competition. The awards will be presented at SACRPH’s 17th National Conference on Planning History, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, October 26-29, 2017. For more information, see http://www.sacrph.org/awards.
Deadline to apply for Publication Prizes and Teaching Award: August 1, 2017
Deadline to apply for Conference Paper Prize and Student Travel Awards, August 15, 2017
1. PUBLICATION PRIZES
(For work published between August 2015 and July 2017)
Lewis Mumford Prize ($250)
Best book on American city and regional planning history. Please send or direct your publisher to send three copies to the following addresses:
Robert Fishman, Chair
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069
Brent D. Ryan
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Room 10-485, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139.
Lily Geismer
5180 High Crest Avenue
Los Angeles, CA. 90041
Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize ($250)
Best scholarly article on American city and regional planning history in any journal. Please send a PDF of your published article to Matthew Lasner: mlasner@hunter.cuny.edu.
Matthew Lasner, Chair
Hunter College, CUNY
Anthony Raynsford
San Jose State University
Aaron Shkuda
Princeton University
John Reps Prize ($250)
Best master’s thesis and best doctoral dissertation in American city and regional planning history. Please submit one copy of your manuscript to each of the addresses below:
Greg Hise, Chair
972 S. Orange Grove Blvd., Unit D
Pasadena, CA 91105
David Sloane
Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 313
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626
June Williamson
39 Claremont Ave #103
New York, NY 10027
Journal of Planning History Prize ($100)
Best article published in the Journal of Planning History. Authors do not need to submit copies. All articles published between August 2015 and May 2017 (inclusive) will be considered.
Eric Sandweiss, Chair
Indiana University
Elizabeth Macdonald
University of California Berkeley
Renia Ehrenfreucht
University of New Mexico
2. CONFERENCE PAPER PRIZE
(for papers accepted for presentation at the 17th National Conference on Planning History, Cleveland, Ohio, October 26-29, 2017)
Student Paper Prize ($100)
Best conference paper submitted by a full-time student. For consideration, students should send their paper as a PDF to Kristin Larsen: Klarsen@ufl.edu.
Kristin Larsen, Chair
University of Florida
Mariana Mogilevich
Oculus, NYAIA
Brian Goldstein
Swarthmore College
3. TEACHING AWARDS
Lawrence Gerckens Prize ($250)
Awarded to a scholar-teacher who has demonstrated sustained teaching excellence and educational leadership in the field of planning history. Teaching excellence refers to the nominees influence in the classroom. Educational leadership involves, among other things, curriculum development, colleague and student mentoring, and pedagogical publishing.
Letters of nomination should be sent electronically to Domenic Vitiello:
vitiello@design.upenn.edu.
Domenic Vitiello, Chair
University of Pennsylvania
Mary Ryan
Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University
Lawrence Vale
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Longstreth
George Washington University
4. Student Travel Awards (up to $250 each)
The Robert S. Birch Endowment supports the activities of students within SACRPH and helps fund travel to the conference for students whose proposals have been accepted by the program committee. Individual grants will not exceed $250. Students presenting papers should send an electronic copy to Sara Stevens: sstevens@sala.ubc.ca.
Sara Stevens, Chair
University of British Columbia
David Smiley
Columbia University
Jennifer Hock
Maryland Institute College of Art