2024 Anthony Leeds Prize Winner
Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, and Sapana Doshi’s
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City
2023 Anthony Leeds Prize Winner
Deniz Yonucu’s
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press 2022)
City & Society Best Paper Prize
Winner:
Samantha Maurer Fox
Paper title:
A City of Newcomers: Migration and Solidarity in the Former East Germany
2024 Best Graduate Student Paper Prize
Winner:
Lauren Baumgardt, Rice University
Paper title:
Temporalities of Design and Repair: Reimagining Reclaim the City’s Building Occupation in Cape Town
Honorable Mentions:
Tayeba Batool, University of Pennsylvania
Paper title:
Climate Shaping: “Political” Trees, Landscaping, and a Traffic Circle (in Islamabad, Pakistan)
2023 Best Graduate Student Paper Prize
Winner:
Vanessa Koh
Paper title:
Governing the Ground: Urban Environmental Governance in Singapore
Honorable Mentions:
Matthew Demaio
Paper title:
Accumulating Place: Multiplicities of Movements and Attachments among Palestinian Refugees from Syria
Xuyi Zhao
Paper title:
A Timespace of Zero-COVID: Urban Governance and Community Building in Southwest China
2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Bob Rotenberg, Professor Emeritus, De Paul University
Deborah Pellow, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizen & Public Affairs
Past Awards
David Boarder Giles Awarded 2022 Leeds Prize
Maurice Rafael Magaña Awarded 2021 Leeds Prize
Rebecca Louise Carter Awarded 2020 Leeds Prize
Hiba Bou Akar Awarded 2019 Leeds
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