2021 Awards

2021 SACRPH Award Winners

SACRPH offers biennial awards for the best scholarship and service in planning history. Congratulations to all our prize winners and thank you to the prize committees who spent considerable time selecting them.

Laurence Gerckens Prize for teaching excellence and leadership

Lewis Mumford Prize for best book

Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for best article

John Reps Prize for best dissertation

Journal of Planning History Prize for best article in the JPH

Prize Committee Members


Laurence Gerckens Prize

Awarded to a scholar-teacher who has demonstrated sustained teaching excellence and educational leadership in the field of planning history.

Winner:

Lawrence Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lawrence Vale, 2021 Gerckens Prize Winner.

Lewis Mumford Prize

Awarded to the best book on American city and regional planning history published between August 1, 2019 and July 31, 2021.

Winner:

Paige Glotzer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Honorable Mention:

Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallmann, A People’s Atlas of Detroit

Cover design: Rachel Ross.
Photograph: Amy K. Senese. Yusef Shakur’s twelfth annual backpack giveaway and neighborhood festival, August 2018. 

A People’s Atlas of Detroit Editors, clockwise from the top-left: Linda Campbell, Detroit People’s Platform and the Building Movement; Tim Stallman, Research Action Design; Sara Safransky, Vanderbilt University; and Andrew Newman, Wayne State University.


Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize

Awarded to the best scholarly article on American city and regional planning history in any journal, published between August 1, 2019 and July 31, 2021.

Co-Winners:

Dylan Gottlieb, Hagley Library

LaDale Winling, Virginia Tech, and Todd Michney, Georgia Institute of Technology

LaDale Winling (left) and Todd Michney (right), 2021 Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize Co-Winners.
Federal Housing Administration mapping and drafting division staffers circa 1937-1938. Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
LC-H22-D-3422, Harris & Ewing Collection.

Honorable Mention:

Matthew Gordon Lasner, Hunter College, CUNY

Matthew Gordon Lasner, Honorable Mention, Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize
Post Village, Smyrna, Ga., 1980-1988. Photograph by Carol Christensen, 1996. Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Garden Club of America collection.

John Reps Prize

Awarded to the best doctoral dissertation in American city and regional planning history, completed between August 1, 2019 and July 31, 2021.

Co-Winners:

Michael Glass, Boston College

School board election flier from Levittown, NY, 1959
Michael Glass, 2021 Co-Winner of the John Reps Prize.

Angela S. Stiefbold, University of Cincinnati

Bucks County Farm, 1939. Library of Congress.
Angela S. Stiefbold,
2021 Co-Winner of the John Reps Prize.

Journal of Planning History Prize

Awarded to the best article published in the Journal of Planning History, published between August 1, 2019 and July 31, 2021.

Co-Winners:

Anastasiya Ponomaryova and Brent D. Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Anastasiya Ponomaryova and Brent D. Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

2021 Journal of Planning History Prize Co-Winners.


Prize Committee Members

Thank you to the many SACRPH members who served on prize committees:  

  • Robert Freestone, University of New South Wales
  • Joseph Heathcott, The New School
  • Meredith Drake Reitan, University of Southern California
  • Robin Bachin, University of Miami
  • Angel Nieves, Northeastern University
  • Elihu Rubin, Yale University
  • Megan Asaka, University of California, Riverside
  • Alex Sayf Cummings, Georgia State University
  • Pedro Regalado, Harvard University
  • Evan Friss, James Madison University
  • Guadalupe García, Tulane University
  • Rebecca Summer, Portland State University
  • Douglas Appler, University of Kentucky
  • Paige Glotzer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Rosemary Ndubuizu, Georgetown University