Ph.D. in Architecture Awards

2022 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Dicle Taskin – 2022 Carter Manny Writing Award for “The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric (Dis)Integration, 1923–70”

Jessica Puff – 2022 Carter Manny Research Citation for her dissertation “Settler Colonialism and the National Historic Preservation Act: Preserving History and Historic Preservation Policy in the Pacific Islands”

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2020 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Azadeh Omidfar Sawyer – Distinguished Dissertation Award in Architecture

2019 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Maria Taylor – Distinguished Dissertation Award in Architecture

2018 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Maria Taylor – Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton

Alaa Algargoosh – Doctoral Student Award in Architecture

2017 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Lori Smithey – Doctoral Student Award in Architecture

Elizabeth Keslacy – Distinguished Dissertation Award in Architecture

Benjamin Smith – Distinguished Dissertation Award in Architecture

Emine Seda Kayim – Rackham Dr. Helen Wu Award

Alaa Algargoosh – Acoustical Society of America: Student Council Travel Award; The International Student Fellowship

2016 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Michael Abrahamson – Doctoral Student Award in Architecture

Irene Brisson – Doctoral Student Award in Architecture

2014 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Kush Patel – ARCC/King Student Medal

Azadeh Omidfar – Doctoral Student Award

Matthew Heins – Distinguished Dissertation Award

2013 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Laura Smith – ARCC/King Student Medal

Joss Kiely – Doctoral Student Award

Robert Walsh – Distinguished Dissertation Award

2012 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Elizabeth Keslacy – Doctoral Student Award

Pirasri Povatong – Distinguished Dissertation Award

2011 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Jennifer Lynn Chamberlin, Ph.D. – ARCC/King Student Medal

Kush Upenda Patel, M.S. – Doctoral Student Award

LaDale C. Winling – Distinguished Dissertation Award

2010 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Stephanie Zeier Pilat – 2010 Distinguished Dissertation Award

Kristina Luce – Ph.D. Student Award

Ross Christopher Hoekstra – Master of Science Student Award

Diaan Louis van der Westhuizen – ARCC/King Student Medal

2009 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Stephanie Pilat – Ph.D. Student Award

Anirban Adhya – ARCC/King Student Medal

Kush Patel – UM Spectrum Center and Kellogg Foundation Scholarship

2008 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Didem Ekici – Rackham Graduate School, One Term Dissertation Fellowship

Kristina Luce – Rackham Graduate School, Predoctoral Fellowship

2007 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Itohan Osayimwese – Carter Manny Award: Citation of Special Recognition, 2007

Kristina Luce – The Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellowship

Didem Ekici – Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowship

Itohan Iriagbonse Osayimwese – Distinguished Dissertation Award

Stephanie Pilat – Ph.D. Student Award

Jatuwat Varodompun – ARCC/King Student Medal

K. Fusun Erkul – ACSP Scholarship for Student Travel

Suma Pandhi – UM Center for Japanese Mellon Fellowship

2006 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Stephanie Pilat – American Academy in Rome, Predoctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies

Omar Baghdady – American Research Center in Cairo, Kress Foundation Fellow

K. Fusun Erkul – UM Rackham Graduate School, Barbour Scholarship for Women

2005 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Didem Ekici – Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service), Graduate Study Scholarship

Itohan Osayimwese – Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service), Graduate Study Scholarship

Stephanie Pilat – Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago scholarship, for language study at Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri, Rome

Kristina Luce – Robert F. Goheen Prize in Classical Studies, Woodrow Wilson Foundation

LaDale Winling – SAH/HABS (Society of Architectural Historians/Historic American Buildings Survey), Tompkins Fellowship

Itohan Osayimwese – Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship

K. Fusun Erkul – UM International Institute, Seminar on Global Transformations Fellowship

2004 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Itohan Osayimwese – Arts of Citizenship, Civitas Fellowship in Public Cultural Scholarship; Center for African and African American Studies, African Initiative Grant; International Institute, Predissertation Research Award

Kristina Luce – Taubman College, Levine Architectural Research Fellowship

2003 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

June Komisar – Society of Architectural Historians, DeMontequin Fellowship

K. Fusun Erkul – UM Rackham Graduate School, Discretionary Fellowship

2002 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Kristina Luce – Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Mellon Fellowship

Stephanie Pilat – Rackham Graduate School, Discretionary Funds; Rackham Graduate School, Shapiro Award

2001 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Vandana Baweja – Architectural Association, London, Anthony Pott Memorial Award

June Komisar – Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS); Rackham Graduate School, Predoctoral Fellowship; Rackham Graduate School, One Term Dissertation Fellowship

Vandana Baweja – Rackham Graduate School, Discretionary Grant

1998 Architecture Doctoral Studies Award Recipients

Ela Cil – Republic of Turkey, High Education Council, Scholarship (until 2002)

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