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. The Call for 2026 Nominations is available here, with a submission deadline of September 15, 2026.
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”