Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning

Deadline: July 1, 2009

Recognizes superior scholarship in a doctoral dissertation completed by a student enrolled in an ACSP-member school. The committee seeks a thesis that is original, well written, employs methods elegantly, offers lessons pertinent to central issues in the field of planning, and provides guidance about how planners or governments should make choices. Nominees must have received the doctoral degree in the two years preceding the deadline (May 2007 through June 2009). The award will be announced in Fall, 2009. There is an option to present the work at the 2009 ACSP Conference.

The committee will accept for review no more than one nomination from each doctoral program. Initial nominations, to come jointly from the dissertation committee chairperson and the department chair or director of graduate studies, are to consist of three copies of ONLY the table of contents and the introductory and concluding chapters, together with two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the chair of the nominee’s dissertation committee, and a university document indicating the date of award of the degree. The committee may then ask for the full thesis from selected finalists. These materials should be sent before July 1, 2009 to:

Pierre Clavel, Chair
ACSP Jones Award Committee
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Cornell University
West Sibley Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-6701
pc29@cornell.edu

*Please include an up-to-date address/email address for the nominee. *
 

The 2009 Barclay Gibbs Jones Award Committee:

Chair and Term

Pierre Clavel                                                              Term:   2004-
Department of City and Regional Planning                      Voice:   607-255-6212
Cornell University                                                          Fax:      607-255-2848
202 W. Sibley                                                                Email:   pc29@cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY  14853-6701

Committee Members and Terms

Linda Lacey                                                                Term:   2004-
The Graduate School                                                     Voice:   505-646-4150
MSC 3G PO Box 30001                                                            Cell:      505-649-8081
New Mexico State University                                        Email:   lacey@nmsu.edu
Las Cruces, NM  88003-8001

Douglass B. Lee                                                         Term:  
U.S. DOT/Volpe Center, DTS-49                                  Voice:   617-494-2762
Kendall Square                                                              Fax:      617-494-3260
Cambridge, MA  02142                                                  Email:   leed@volpe.dot.gov