Each year ACSP is proud to honor faculty and students who have distinguished themselves or made major contributions to the academy or to the profession. This year ACSP will award the following prizes for papers prepared as part of research projects, academic studies, outreach efforts, or public service OR for service to ACSP, the Academy, or the Profession.

Faculty Awards

• ACSP Distinguished Educator Award
• Paul Davidoff Book Award
• Margarita McCoy Advancement of Women in Planning Award
• Jay Chatterjee ACSP Distinguished Service Award
• Marcia M. Feld Leadership Award
• Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Planning Article in JPER this year 
• Edward Blakely Award
• Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education

Student Awards

Please note that 2013 student paper award winners will receive complimentary conference registration to the 2014 Annual Conference in Philadelphia if they are able to attend to present their winning paper. We are unable to provide complimentary registration to the Joint Congress in Dublin.

• Ed McClure Award for Best Masters Student Paper
• Marsha Ritzdorf Award for the Best Student Work on Diversity, Social Justice and the Role of Women in Planning
• Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for the Best Dissertation in Planning
• Don Schön Award for Excellence in Learning from Practice
• Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning
• Karen R. Polenske Best Student Paper Award for Outstanding Paper on a China Planning Related Topic

Travel Scholarships

ACSP Scholarship for Student Travel - deadline May 15, 2013. Please note that 2013 Travel Awards do not include conference registration waiver.

• Committee Chair: Nabil Kamel, Arizona State University, nabil.kamel@asu.edu [2009-present]
• Committee Member: Mai Nguyen, University of North Carolina, nguyen@unc.edu [2009-present]
• Committee Member: Kate Lowe, University of New Orleans, kate.lowe@uno.edu [2013-present]

Gill-Chin Lim Travel Award - deadline June 1, 2013. Please note that 2013 Travel Awards do not include conference registration waiver.

• Committee Chair: Deden Rukmana, Savannah State University, rukmanad@savannahstate.edu
• Committee Member: Enrique R. Silva, Boston University, ersilva@bu.edu  
• Committee Member: Divya Chandrasekhar, Texas Southern University, chandrasekhard@tsu.edu

ACSP-POCIG Scholarship for Student Travel - deadline May 15, 2013. Please note that 2013 Travel Awards do not include conference registration waiver.

• Committee Chair: Sigmund C. Shipp, Hunter College, sshipp@hunter.cuny.edu [2007-present]

ACSP Book Fair Publishers Student Travel Scholarship - there will be no Book Fair Publishers Student Travel awards for 2013.