The François-Auguste de Montêquin Prize was awarded to the best paper accepted for presentation at the biennial conference on the topic of North American colonial planning history.
With funds donated for this award noq spent, SACRPH is no longer accepting new nominations for the de Montêquin Prize.
Past Winners
2013: Benjamin Sacks, Princeton University, “Constructing the West Indies: Utopian Island Plans and Sustainable Development in the Ceded Islands, 1763-1783”
2005: Richard Harris, University of Toronto, “The Evolution of British Housing Policy in the Colonial Caribbean, 1929-1960s”
2003: Thomas Campanella, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “City by the Sea: The Origins and Influence of the 1643 Plan for Gravesend, Brooklyn”
1999: Martha McNamara, University of Maine, “Courts and Commerce: Public Space in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts”
— 1999 honorable mention: Michael T. Lewis, University of Maryland, “A Rare and Occasional Settlement: An Historical and Archaeological Interpretation of Colonial Town Planning at Mount Calvert, Maryland”