Deadline: July 1, 2012
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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 2010 through June 2012). The award will be announced in the fall, 2012. There is an option to present the work at the 2012 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 must be received in electronic form by July 1, 2012. Please send them to

*Make sure to include the most current address/email address for the nominee.*

The Barclay Gibbs Jones Award Committee:

William W. Goldsmith, Committee Chair
2012 - present
Department of City and Regional Planning
Cornell University
wwg1@cornell.edu

Linda Lacey
2004-Present
The Graduate School
New Mexico State University
lacey@nmsu.edu

Douglass B. Lee
U.S. DOT
leed@volpe.dot.gov