Carter Manny Awards go to architectural dissertations from Taubman College and Columbia GSAPP

The Graham Foundation has just announced its field of winners for the 26th edition of the Carter Manny Awards, which annually recognizes emerging talent in the field of doctoral dissertation writing as well as research into architecture and design. Named for the Foundation's longtime director emeritus, the award promotes itself as “the only predoctoral award dedicated to architectural scholarship” and supports “projects that are poised to impact how architecture is studied and practiced.”

This year’s winners dissected the role of architecture as it relates to the arts, culture, and society.

University of Michigan's Taubman College doctoral candidate Dicle Taskin took home the Writing Award for her dissertation on Pan-Americanism and the post-war development of infrastructure networks through a geopolitical lens. She was joined by Columbia GSAPP doctoral candidate Robin Hartanto Honggare, who was given the Research Award for an investigation into the colonial plantation system in East Sumatra between 1869 and 1942.

The jury panel also announced citation awards, which went to the following:

• Giulia Amoresano of the University of California, Los Angeles for Cultivating the Italian Empire: Architecture and the Origins of the Global South, 1861–1914
• Ana Gisele Ozaki of Cornell University for New Brazils in Africa: Transatlantic Tropical Futurities, Racial Miscegenation, and Plantation Legacies, 1910–74
• Jessica L. Puff of the University of Michigan for Settler Colonialism and the National Historic Preservation Act: Preserving History and Historic Preservation Policy in the Pacific Islands
• Caroline Filice Smith of Harvard University for Planning Participation: Urban Design, Black Power, and the Struggle for Community Control During the American Century
• Elliott Sturtevant of Columbia GSAPP for Empire’s Stores: Graphic Methods, Corporate Architecture, and Entrepôt Urbanism in America, 1876–1939
• Taylor Van Doorne of UC Santa Barbara for Ephemeral Monuments, the Modern French State, and the Parisian Public, 1789–1848
• Y. L. Lucy Wang of Columbia University for Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949

This year's cycle was judged by Syracuse University associate professor Lawrence Chua, UMass Dartmouth's Pamela Karimi, and Jamila Moore Pewu of Cal State Fullerton. The application for next year's cycle is available now and closes on November 15th.