ACSP Award History | ACSP: Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

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. ACSP awards the following prizes for papers prepared as part of research projects, academic studies, outreach efforts, public service or for service to ACSP, the Academy, or the profession.

ACSP Faculty Awards

ACSP Distinguished Educator Award

2011 Peter Marcuse, Columbia University
2009 Eugenie Ladner Birch, University of Pennsylvania
2007 Lewis D. Hopkins, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2006 Martin Wachs, University of California, Berkeley
2005 Lawrence E. Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 Susan Fainstein, Columbia University
2003 Paul Niebanck, University of Washington
2002 David Godschalk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2001 No presentation
2000 Melvin M. Webber, University of California, Berkeley
1999 Lisa Redfield Peattie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998 Michael Teitz, University of California, Berkeley
1997 Lloyd Rodwin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 Martin Meyerson, University of Pennsylvania
1995 Alan Feldt, University of Michigan
1994 John A. Parker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1993 Ann Strong, University of Pennsylvania
1992 Melville Branch, University of Southern California
1991 Britton Harris, University of Pennsylvania
1990 Barclay Jones, Cornell University
1989 John Dyckman, Johns Hopkins University
1987 John Friedmann, University of California, Los Angeles
1986 F. Stuart Chapin, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1984 John Reps, Cornell University
1983 Harvey Perloff, University of California, Los Angeles

Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service

2011 No winner
2009 Ed Blakely, University of Sydney
2008 Bruce Stiftel, Florida State University
2007 Sandi Rosenbloom, University of Arizona
2006 Eugenie L. Birch, University of Pennsylvania
2005 Marcia Marker Feld, University of Rhode Island
2004 G. William Page, University of Buffalo
2002 Michael P. Brooks, Virginia Commonwealth University
2001 Rolf Engler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999 Jerome Kaufman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1998 Michael Teitz, University of California, Berkeley
1997 Award re-named to honor Jay Chatterjee
1991 Jay Chatterjee, University of Cincinnati
1987 Carl Goldschmidt, Michigan State University

Margarita McCoy Award (by Faculty Women’s Interest Group)

2010 Hemalata Dandekar, California State Polytechnic University, San Louis Obispo
2008 Daphne Spain, University of Virginia
2006 Patricia Pollak, Cornell University; Dolores Hayden, Yale University
2005 Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota
2004 No Winner
2001: Margot Garcia, Virginia Commonwealth University; Karen Polenske, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Marcia Marker Feld, University of Rhode Island; Marsha Ritzdorf, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1995: Eugenie L. Birch, Hunter College-CUNY; Sandra Rosenbloom, University of Arizona

Paul Davidoff Award

2011 Three Winners: 1) Susan Fainstein, The Just City; 2) Christopher Klemek, The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin; and 3) Ananya Roy, Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development
2009 Tom Angotti, Hunter College
2007 Xavier de Souza Briggs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Charles Connerly, Florida State University; Jason Corburn, University of California at Berkeley; and Randolph T. Hester, University of California at Berkeley
2005 Edward G. Goetz, University of Minnesota; Leonie Sandercock, University of British Columbia; and Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003 Gerald E. Frug, Harvard Law School
2001 Elise M. Bright, University of Texas at Arlington
1999 June Manning Thomas, Michigan State University
1997 Philip Nyden, Anne Figert, Mark Shibley, and Darryl Burrows
1995 Rob Mier, University of Illinois, Chicago
1993 Edward Blakely, University of Southern California; and William Goldsmith, Cornell University
1991 Norman Krumholz, Cleveland State University; John Forester, Cornell University
1989 Lisa Peattie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1987 Peter Marris, University of California, Los Angeles
1985 Pierre Clavel, Cornell University
1983 Chester Hartman, Institute for Policy Studies
1981 Dolores Hayden, University of California, Los Angeles

Chester Rapkin Award

2011 No winner
2010 Joe Grengs, University of Michigan; Jonathan Levine, University of Michigan; Qing Shen, University of Washington; Qingyun Shen, University of Michigan, "Intermetropolitan Comparison of Transportation Accessibility: Sorting Out Mobility and Proximity in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Wol. 29(4).
2009 Donald Shoup, University of California Los Angeles, "Graduated Density Zoning" JPER v28
2008 Emily Talen, School of Geographical Sciences and School of Planning, Arizona State University, “New Urbanism, Social Equity, and the Challenge of Post-Katrina Rebuilding in Mississippi,” JPER 27:27:3 (Spring, 2008)
2008 Honorable Mention - Sukumar Ganapati, School of Public Administration, University of South Florida
2008 Honorable Mention - Vikas Mehta, School of Architecture and Community Design, University of South Florida
2008 Honorable Mention - Stephen M. Wheeler, Landscape Architecture Program, University of California at Davis
2007 Matti Siemiatycki, University of British Columbia, “Implications of Private-Public Partnerships on the Development of Urban Public Transit Infrastructure: The Case of Vancouver, Canada”
2006 Andrejs Skaburskis, Queen’s University, “New Urbanism and Sprawl-A Toronto Case Study”
2005 Robert H. Thompson, University of Rhode Island, “Overcoming Barriers to Ecologically-Sensitive Land Management: Green Developments and the Development of a Land Ethic”
2004 Jeffrey Brown, Florida State University; Daniel Baldwin Hess, University of Buffalo; and Donald Shoup, UCLA, “Fare-Free Public Transit at Universities: An Evaluation”
2003 Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, University of Southern California; Robin Liggett, UCLA; and Hiroyuki Iseki, UCLA
2002 Karen Umemoto, University of Hawai at Manoa
2001 Robyne S. Turner and Margaret S. Murray, Florida Atlantic University
2000 Patsy Healey, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1999 Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Arizona State University
1998 Jack Byers, University of Minnesota
1997 Lawrence Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 Kenneth Temkin and William Rohe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1995 Insung Lee, Sang- Myung University, Korea; and Lewis D. Hopkins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1994 Howell S. Baum, University of Maryland at College Park; Honorable Mention: Eric J. Heikkila, University of Southern California, and Mark Griffin, University of San Francisco
1993 Karen S. Christensen, University of California, Berkeley
1992 Catherine Hill, Rutgers University, Sabina Dietrick, University of Pittsburg, and Ann Markusen, Rutgers University
1991 Gerrit Knaap, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Honorable Mention: Thomas L. Harper and Stanley M. Stein, University of Calgary
1990 John M. Bryson, Philip Bromley, University of Minnesota, and Yoon Soo Jung, University of Pennsylvania; Honorable Mention: Linda C. Dalton, California Polytechnic Statte University, San Luis Obispo
1989 Bish Sanyal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988 Ann R. Markusen, Northwestern University
1987 Janice Perlman, New York Academy of Sciences

Marcia M. Feld Award

2011 Cheryl K. Contant, University of Minnesota

Martin Meyerson Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education

2011 No award given in 2011
2008 Jay Chatterjee, FAICP; Professor, School of Architecture and Interior Design and School of Planning, University of Cincinnati
2007 Linda C. Dalton, Executive Vice Provost and Chief Planning Officer, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo (currently Vice President, Planning & Enrollment Management, California State University, East Bay)
2005 Carl V. Patton, President, Georgia State University

Student Awards

Marsha Ritzdorf Award

2011 Isabelle Anguelovski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010 Mia White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 Auvinet Kaur Tehara, University of Toronto
2007 Ahmed Abukhater, University of Texas at Austin
2006 Jordana Ross
2005 Elsie Achugbue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 Tara Kumar
2003 Karen Pooley, University of Pennsylvania
2002 Susan Chivaratanond, University of California, Berkeley
2001 Isabel Domeyko, University of Illinois at Chicago
2000 Richard S. Cho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999 Ivan Banda, Thomasz Bielecki, Tanya Boyce, Katie Chin, Lise Dorestant, Colette Gill, Drew Kirlazides, Rigoberto M. Lopez, Sarah Massey, Chris Ryan, Sumona Samanta, Robert Tyrell; Hunter College, CUNY
1998 Stacy Harwood, University of Southern California

Ed McClure Award for Best Masters Student Paper

2011 Adam Yagelski, University at Albany, SUNY
2010 Troels Adrian, Georgia Institute of Technology
2009 Bryan Rodda, University of Pennsylvania
2008 Maggie Chien, York University
2007 Martine August, University of Toronto
2006 Benjamin Saltsman, University of Southern California
2005 John B. Richardson, Florida State University
2004 Jessica Zenk, University of California, Berkeley
2002 Kate Fichter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001 Philip D’Anieri, University of Michigan
2000 Joshua Drucker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1999 Anne Dibble, University of Michigan
1998 Edward “Ted” Kamp, University of Colorado, Denver
1997 Susan Silberberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jack Sylvan, University of California, Berkeley
1996 Lynn Pikholz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1995 Philippa Campsie, University of Toronto
1994 Dora Epstein, University of California, Los Angeles
1993 Stephen Rebori, University of Tennessee
1992 Michael Parke, University of Hawaii
1991 Michael Doughty, University of Ohio
1990 Deanna Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles
1989 Stan Fritterman, Georgia Institute of Technology
1987 David Blatt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1985 John Metzger, University of Illinois at Chicago

Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for the Best Dissertation in Planning

2011 - to be announced
2010 Jinhua Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 Gerardo Sandoval, Iowa State University
2008 Ralph Buehler, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2007 No winner
2006 Philip Ashton, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2005 Kurt G. Paulsen, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
2004 Anna Laura Wolf-Powers, Pratt Institute and Annette Miae Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003 Joe Grengs, University of Michigan
2002 Mizuki Kawabata, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kevin Krizek, University of Washington
Karen Chapple, University of California, Berkeley
Sumila Gulyani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998 Sydney Wong, University of California, Berkeley and Grant Saff, Hofstra University

Don Schon Award for Excellence in Learning from Practice

2010 Kas Aruskevich, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2008 Amy Stitely, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006 Barbara Brown, University of Texas
2002 Natasha Freidus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sarah Cohen, University of Michigan; Catherine Geisen-Kisch, University of Minnesota
2001 Sara Cohen, University of Michigan, "Developing Community Ownership of an Urban Vegetable Garden: A Participatory Action Research Project in Detroit"
1999 Jeffrey Burdick, Chae Gun Chung, Edward Hug, Eric Laube, Karin Morris, Gregory Nishimura; University of Michigan

Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning

2011 Co-winners Pietro Calogero, University of California, Berkeley and Andrew Rumbach, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honorable Mention - Kyung-Min Nam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010 Mi Shih, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Honorable Mention - Roberto Pires, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 Anupama Mann, University of Southern California; Honorable Mention - Anuradha Mukherji, University of California, Berkeley
2008 Georgeta Vidican, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007 Michael Geiger Donovan University of California, Berkeley; Honorable Mention - Sharlene Louis Mollett, University of Toronto
2006 N. Emel Ganapati, University of Southern California; Honorable Mention - Tanja Winkler, University of British Columbia
2005 Theresa Denise Williamson, University of Pennsylvania
2004 Mufid Qassoum, University of Illinois at Chicago

Gill-Chin Lim Grants for Student Travel to the ACSP Conference

2011 Fatima Wajahat, Florida State University; Nishtha Mehta, University of Texas at Austin; Liang Ma, Portland State University; Hiba Bou Akar, University of California, Berkeley
2010 Yu Min Joo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Husein Rahmawati, Texas A&M University; Salila Vanka, University of Michigan; Nicholas R. Smith, Harvard University
2009 Isabelle Anguelovski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kenneth Cheruiyot, University of Cincinnati; Xin Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Charles Oduro, Florida State University
2006 Das Ashok, University of California, Los Angeles; Sandra Lee Pinel, University of Wisconsin; Zhilin Liu, Cornell University; Surajit Chakravart, University of Southern California
2005 Nora Libertun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mi Shih, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Anirban Pal, University of Colorado; Deden Rukmana, Florida State University
2004 Murtaza Hatim Baxamusa, University of Southern California; Ramya Ramanath , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nazife Emel Ganapati, University of Southern California; Yiping Fang, University of Colorado

POCIG Student Travel Awards

2011 Sheryl Ann Simpson, Cornell University; Edward Tarlton, Texas A&M University; Jasmine Williams, Jackson State University; Dungwoo Yang, University of California, Irvine
2010 Andrew Greenlee, University of Chicago; LaTonya Green, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kwang OkLee, University of Southern California; Aftab Erfan, University of British Columbia; Donovan Anderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Student Travel Scholarships

2011 Sweta Byahut, University of Cincinnati; Jia Ching Chen, University of California, Berkeley; Bum Seok Chun, The Ohio State University; Tabitha S. Combs, University of North Carolina; James Connolly, Columbia University; Debra Flanders Cushing, University of Colorado Denver; Yu Ge, Texas A&M University; Sunita Kalsariya, University of Southern California; Kristian Larsen, University of Toronto;Zachary Taylor, University of Toronto

2010

Jason Burke, University of Toronto;
DONG Hongwei, Portland State University
Keren mertens Horn, New York University
Kanako Iuchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Junfend Jiao, University of Washington
Adam Millard-Ball, Stanford University
Meredith Drake Reitan, University of Southern California
Andrew Rumbach, Cornell University
Laura Russ, University of California, Los Angeles
Jocelyn Widmer, University of Florida

2009

Kenneth Joh, University of California Irvine
Youngkook Kim, Ohio State University
Rachel Meltzer, New York University
Ahmed Abukhater, University of Texas at Austin
Paavo Monkkonen, University of California at Berkeley
Kelly Draper Zuniga, University of Colorado
Suzanne Lanyi Charles, Harvard University
Sade Owolabi, Cornell University
Jieun Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
In Kwon Park, Ohio State University

2008

Ralph Buehler, Rutgers University
Idalina Bap tista, UC Berkeley
Gil Tal, UC Davis
Miwa Ma tsuo, Harvard University
J. Rober t (Bobby) Cochran, Portland State University
Ca thy Yang Liu, University of Southern California
Diana Mi tsova-Boneva, University of Cincinnati
Chang Yi , UT Austin
Fusun Erkul, UM Ann Arbor
Jung Eun Kang, Texas A & M

2007

Ajay Agarwal, University of Southern California
Ana Baptista, Rutgers University
Rachel Berney, University of California-Berkeley
Annalise Fonza, University of Massachusetts
Zhan Guo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heather Khan, Florida State University
Sameer Sharma, University of Cincinnati
Hoda Shawki , Ohio State University
Mark Stevens, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andree Tremoulet, Portland State University ACSP

2006

Andrew Karvonen, University of Texas, Austin
Louna Khirfan, University of Michigan
Katherine Lieberknecht, Cornell University
Jeremy Nemeth, Rutgers University
Doan Nguyen, University of Maryland
Sung Ho Ryu, University of Southern California
Chris Hawking, Florida State University
Uddhab Bhandary, University of Colorado, Denver
Sarah Dooling, University of Washington
Abhishek Tiwari, University of California, Irvine

ACSP—FMF Student Travel Awards (combined) – 2005

Jainey K. Bavashi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clarinda Barnett, Wayne State University
Yanmei Li, Ohio State University
Jennifer Ball, University of Guelph
Mook Kim, Rutgers University
Rodney Harrell, University of Maryland
Shanna Eller, Portland State University
Michelle Kondo, University of Washington
Rahsaan Arscott , Texas Southern University
Yang Zhang, Texas A&M University

2004

Katrin Anacker , Ohio State University
Kristin Crossney, Rutgers University
Ashok Das, University of California, Los Angeles
Sugie Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Vikas Mehta, University of Maryland
Lynn Patterson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Deden Rukmana, Florida State University
Jeffrey Vincent, University of California, Berkeley
Leela Viswanathan, York University
Xifang Xing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Historic Awards

AICP-ACSP Collaborative Projects Award
This project was presented as a conference session at the APA National Conference in Chicago on April 17th and will also be presented during a special conference session at ACSP. The AICP-ACSP Collaborative Projects Awards program considers only projects that involve collaboration between a practitioner and an academic.

ACSP/AICP Institute for Business and Home Safety Awards
The winner will be announced during the Saturday Awards Luncheon. The Institute for Business and Home Safety will make the awards to a student who presents a conference paper on the nexus of natural hazards and land-use planning. The winning student will be expected to present the paper in a session scheduled during the conference.

2007 Award was discontinued
Winner 2006 - None
Winner 2005 - Juchul Jung, University of Texas at Austin “The Impact of Institutional Settings on Local Hazard Mitigation Efforts: A New Institutional Perspective”
Winner 2004 - Lorelei Juntunen, University of Oregon “Addressing Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards”

Funding was dropped in 2006 for all Fannie Mae awards

Fannie Mae Foundation Best Paper Prizes & Travel Scholarships
Each year the Fannie Mae Foundation funds ACSP to award three cash prizes for the best papers given at the ACSP conference which address housing or community development issues. Papers may be given in any track. The 2004 Fannie Mae Foundation Prize Coordinator is Professor Mickey Lauria, Clemson University. Winners of all awards will be announced at the Saturday Awards Lunch. Best Student Paper

A $1,000 prize is awarded for the best paper by a student or group of students addressing housing or community development issues.

2005 - No winner
2004 - Philip Ashton, Rutgers University “Advantage or Disadvantage? The Changing Institutional Landscape of Central City Mortgage Markets.” Best Action Research Paper

A prize for the best paper evaluating how new knowledge was created by practice, or how academic thought and knowledge significantly improved practice in a housing or community development project, with preference given to authors involved in the project.

2005 - No winner
2004 - Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Hunter College and Asma Ali, University of Illinois, Chicago “E-Planning with Youth: Creating Spaces of/for Engagement” Overall Best Conference Paper

A $1,000 prize is awarded for the best paper given at the ACSP Conference on housing or community development issues. It may have been given in any track.

2005 - No Winner
2004 - Michela Zonta , Virginia Commonwealth University “The Role of Ethnic Banks in the residential Patterns of Asian Americans: Loan Approvals by Asian Banks in the Los Angeles Region”

Best Dissertation Addressing Housing and Community Development Issues
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, with the generous funding of the Fannie Mae Foundation, will award a $5,000 dissertation grant to a doctoral student in North America whose thesis directly addresses housing or community development issues. The award is designated to aid the winner in conducting his or her dissertation research or in accessing data sources otherwise unavailable. Candidates whose dissertations are substantially completed, or which do not require data collection efforts are not eligible. The Fannie Mae Foundation Dissertation Grant Award Committee is chaired by Professor Susan Roakes, University of Memphis.

2005 - No winner
2004 - Karen Beck Pooley, University of Pennsylvania “The Spending Decisions and Neighborhood Impacts of Today’s Community Development Corporations.”