The Graduate Student Paper Prize is awarded to best paper by a full-time student that has been accepted for presentation at the biennial conference.
Nomination instructions are posted after the acceptance of papers for each conference program.
Past Winners
2024: Genevieve Kane, Boston University, “To Contrast the Twisting Streets of Boston: Landmaking and the Urban Grid in Early Nineteenth Century East Boston, Massachusetts”
2019, co-winner: Candace Borders, Yale University, “Towards a Method of Refusal: Black Women’s Public Housing Activism in St. Louis”
2019, co-winner: Michael R. Glass, Princeton University, “Suburban Slumlords: Racial Capitalism and Informal Housing in Roosevelt, New York”
2017: Pedro A. Regalado, Yale University, “Fixed Capital: Building Transition and Drug Capitalism in New York City, 1961-1997″
2015: M.E.L. Speller, Johns Hopkins University, “From Redliners to Reinvestors: Subdividing the City of St. Louis in the 1970s”
2013: Michael P. McCulloch, University of Michigan, “Detroit’s Other Industry: Real Estate and the Culture of Elusive Security”
— 2013 honorable mention: Katie Schank, George Washington University, “‘Better Than 10,000 Words’: Photographs, The Atlanta Housing Authority, and the Construction of Public Housing’s Early Image, 1938-1948”
2011: Chloe Taft, Yale University, “Following the Star: Christmas Tourism, Urban Renewal, and Community Identity in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania”
2009: Francesca Russello Ammon, Yale University, “Unearthing Benny the Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar Children’s Books”
2007: Brian Robick, Carnegie Mellon University, “Urban Blight and Community Reaction to the Gateway Center Redevelopment Project, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1946-1950”
2005: Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, University of Michigan, “Temporary Housing, Permanent Communities: Public Housing Policy and Design in Puerto Rico”
1999: Michael Dudley, University of Manitoba, “The Widening Gyre: Defensive Dispersal and the City Planning Profession in the Early Atomic Era, 1945-1960”
1994: Jason H. Cohen, Rutgers University, “From Utopia to Suburbia: The Architecture and Planning of Roosevelt, New Jersey”
1992: Suzanne Braley, Columbia University, “Philanthropy and Finance in the Development of the Modern Subdivision: A Study of the Harmon”