This award has been discontinued as of 2025

Philosophy and Research Approach of Professor Stan Czamanski

In his Introduction to Regional Science (Prentice-Hall, 1975, p. 2), Walter Isard wrote:

“In brief, regional science as a discipline concerns the careful and patient study of social problems with regional or spatial dimensions, employing diverse combinations of analytical and empirical research.”

Professor Czamanski’s research exemplified the analysis of social and economic problems with regional and spatial dimensions. In doing so, he chose judiciously the right combination of analytical and empirical research methods from his tool box to address the specific issue at hand.  

Dissertation proposals submitted for the Czamanski Dissertation Award will be judged with regard to how the student proposes to bring an appropriate combination of analytical and empirical methods to bear on a social and economic problem with spatial or regional dimensions, and how this combination of methods is expected to deliver greater insights into the problem in question.

Winners

2020								2019
					Sicheng Wang is the 2020 Czamanski Dissertation Award for his dissertation entitled "Travel behavior of ridesourcing: A data-driven analysis". He was supervised by Robert B. Noland from Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy								Haotian Zhong is the 2019 Czamanski Dissertation Award for his dissertation entitled "Autonomous vehicles and urban form". He was supervised by Wei Li from Texas A&M University.
2018								2015
					Viola von Berlepsch is the winner of the 2018 Czamanski Dissertation Award for her dissertation entitled “The long-term economic impact of migration and its significance for US prosperity”. She was supervised by Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Prof. Neil Lee.								The proposal of Steven R. Gehrke (Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA) best represented the approach of Professor Czamanski. Gehrke’s proposal was entitled “Active Travel Behavior and Spatial-temporalLand Use Mixing.”