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STUDENT PAPER AWARDS & GRANT COMPETITIONS

The CGSG Awards and Grants Program is one of the group's most important functions. Each year, dues from CGSG members support paper awards and research grants for students enrolled in accredited Geography programs (and closely related graduate fields). Applicants must be members of the AAG and the CGSG by the time an award is made. Both competitions will close on January 4, 2012 with award announcements made at the 2012 AAG Meeting in New York City. For more information, please contact the Awards Director Sarah Smiley.

Summary of Programs

Past Recipients

Paper Awards. The CGSG offers an award for outstanding paper by a doctoral student and a masters student pursuing degrees in Geography. Papers are evaluated by a four-member panel of judges representing major emphasis areas in cultural geography. The MA Level Paper Award is $200, and the Terry Jordan-Bychkov PhD Award is $250. The entire application process is now paperless, and a single set of application guidelines is available for both the Doctoral and Masters competitions by clicking the links immediately below or in the Summary of Programs.

  • CGSG 2012 Paper CFP & Application [PDF] [Word]

Research Grants. The CGSG offers small grants to support student research projects at the doctoral and masters levels. Proposals are evaluated by a four-member panel of judges representing a wide range of emphasis areas in cultural geography. PhD award amounts are up to $500, MA award amounts are up to $250, and multiple grants may be made in years when budget and application quality support it. The entire application process is now paperless, and a combined PhD-Masters application form is available by clicking on the links immediately below or in the Summary of Programs.

  • CGSG 2012 Grant CFP & Application (Masters & PhD) [PDF] [Word]

Summary of Programs

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DEADLINE & LINK
Terry Jordan-Bychkov Award Jan 4, 2012
Given annually to the best paper at the Doctoral Level ($250) Application Form
      [PDF] [Word]
   
Masters Level Paper Award Jan 4, 2012
Given annually to the best paper at the Masters Level ($200) Application Form
      [PDF] [Word]
         
Denis E. Cosgrove Research Grant    
Awarded annually to support doctoral research leading to PhD (~$500) Jan 4, 2012
      Application Form
      [PDF] [Word]
         
Masters Level Research Grant    
Given annually to support research leading to an MA Degree ($250) Jan 4, 2012
      Application Form
      [PDF] [Word]

 


Past Recipients

2004 :: 2005 :: 2006 :: 2007 :: 2008 :: 2009 :: 2010 :: 2011
       

YEAR

Recipient & Institution Award Advisor
       
2011 Ann Epperson, Western Kentucky U. MA Paper Katie Algeo
  "Internet GIS as a Place-Making Tool for Mammoth Cave National Park"
       
  Timur Hammond, UCLA Denis Cosgrove Grant Lieba Faier
  "Making Eyup Islamic: History, Piety, and the Tranformation of the Built Environment"
       
  Amy Miller-Gray, Indiana University Research Grant (PhD) Dan Knudson
  "The Host Gaze in Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands)"  
       
2010 Sharon Wilcox Adams, Univ. of Texas Jordan-Bychkov Award (PhD) Leo Zonn
  "Spotted in the Wilderness: Documenting the Jaguar in the Nineteenth Century"
       
  Lachlan Barber, U. of British Columbiua Research Grant (PhD) David Ley
  "Pathways to Hong Kong's Past: Politics of Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Global City"
       
  Margaret Pettygrove, UW-Milwaukee Rsch Grant (Masters) Rhina Ghose
  "Spatial and Cultural Dimensions of Food Access in Urban Milwaukee"
       
2009 Joomi Lee, University of Texas Research Grant (PhD) William Doolittle
  "Constructing a New Medieval City in Morocco"  
       
  James Looney, University of Kentucky Research Grant (PhD) Richard Schein
  "Visions of Place, Senses of Landscape: More-than-representational Ethnography on Ocracoke Island, NC"  
       
  Sharon Wilcox, University of Texas Research Grant (PhD) Leo Zonn
  "Encountering El Tigre: Jaguars and People in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"
       
  Nick Bausch, UCLA Research Grant (PhD) Michael Curry
  "An Historical Geography of Digestion: Kellogg and the Making of the Modern Stomach, 1875-1900  
       
2008 Ann Bartos, University of Washington Research Grant (PhD)  
       
  Grant Wilson, University of Toledo Rsch Grant (Masters)  
       
  Alan Marcus, U. Massachusetts Jordan-Bychkov Award (PhD)  
       
  Katherine Williams, U. of Texas Paper Award (Masters)  
       
2007 Michelle Brym, University of Tennessee Research Grant (PhD) Lydia Pulsipher
  "The European Union Integration of Borderlands"
       
  Emily Murai, University of Minnesota Research Grant (PhD) G. Henderson
  "Computing Technologies and Technologies of the Self"
       
  Caroline Faria, University of Washington Research Grant (PhD) Lucy Jarosz
  "Gendering Peace in the 'New Sudan': The Diasporic Politics of Body and Nation"
       
  Ramin Zamanian, Louisiana State Univ. Paper Award (Masters) A. Sluyter
  "A Material/Conceptual Analysis of the Virgin Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City"
       
  Soyini Ashby, Univ. West Indies

Rsch Grant (Masters)

Susan Mains
  "Beyond Language: The Construction of Caribbean Identity"
       
  Erin Gorman, Wittenberg University Paper (Undergrad) A. Keiffer
       
2006 John Davenport, University of Kentucky Jordan-Bychkov Award (PhD) J. Phillips
  "New Orleans' Historic Bywater District"
       
  Sarah Ives, University of Washington Paper Award (Masters)  
       
  Constance Buckner, Oklahoma State U. Paper Award (Undergrad)  
  Nicholas Howe, UCLA Research Grant (PhD) N. Entrikin
       
  Sara Beth Keough, Univ of Tennessee Research Grant (PhD) Tom Bell
       
  Sharon Wilcox, University of Texas Rsch Grant (Masters) Leo Zonn
       
2005 Joshua F.J. Inwood, U. of Georgia Jordan-Bychkov Award (PhD)  
  "Whitewash: Investigating the Role of White Privilege in Racialized Landscapes"
       
  Pablo Mendez, U. of British Columbia Paper Award (Masters)  
  "The Export-Processing City: Contradictory Space & the Logic of 'Bringing-Together'"
       
  Trushna Parek, U. of Texas-Austin Research Grant (PhD)  
  Working Class Residents in a Gentrifying Neighborhood: The Case of Treme, New Orleans
       
  Rashi Sharma, UW-Milwaukee Research Grant (Masters)  
  "Values and Meanings Attached to Late Twentieth-Century Bungalow Neighborhoods"
       
2004 Brian King, U. of Colorado-Boulder Jordan-Bychkov Award (PhD)  
  "Conservation & Community in the Former KaNgwane Homeland, South Africa"
       
  Seonhee Jeong, U. of Illinois-Champaign Paper Award (Masters)  
  "Cultural Politics and Contested Place Identity"
       
  Rebecca Sheehan, Louisiana State Research Grant (PhD)  
  "Contesting Public Space: New Orleans' Jackson Sqaure"
       
  Stephanie McGinn, U. South Carolina Research Grant (Masters)  
  "Ecological Practices & Cultural Adaptation to Depopulation: Swaziland & HIV/AIDS"
       
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