The Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science was established in 1998 in memory of Dr. Benjamin H. Stevens (1929–1997), an intellectual leader whose selfless devotion to graduate students as teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend continues to have a profound impact on the field of Regional Science. Graduate students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in North America who have completed their coursework are eligible to compete for the Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in support of their dissertation research in Regional Science. For more details about applying: https://www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/stevens-graduate-fellowship/applications/
Fundraising to support the Stevens Fellowship Fund, begun in 1998, is ongoing. Donations may be made either by sending a check to: The Stevens Fellowship Fund / First Financial Bank, Attn: Danville Trust Department / One Towne Center / Danville, IL 61832 USA, or via credit card through the members area of the NARSC website. For more details about the Fund and donations: https://www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/stevens-graduate-fellowship/donation-to-narscs-stevens-graduate-student-fellowship-fund/
The Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science has been awarded to the following students:
2000 Michael J. Greenwald (University of California,Irvine; Marlon Boarnet, advisor)
2001 Rachel Franklin (University of Arizona; Brigitte Waldorf, advisor)
2002 Jung Won Son (University of California-Los Angeles; Leobardo Estrada, advisor)
2003 Alison Davis Reum (North Carolina State University; V. Kerry Smith, advisor)
2004 Nicholas Nagle (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara; Stuart H. Sweeney, advisor)
2005 Xiaokun Wang (University of Texas at Austin; Kara Kockelman, advisor)
2006 Joshua Drucker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Harvey Goldstein and Edward Feser, advisors)
2007 Alvin Murphy (Duke University; Patrick Bayer, advisor)
2008 Paavo Monkkonen (University of California, Berkeley; David E. Dowall, advisor)
2009 Elizabeth Mack (Indiana University; Tony H. Grubesic, advisor)
2010 Adam Storeygard (Brown University; J. Vernon Henderson, advisor)
2011 Peter Richards (Michigan State University; Robert Walker, advisor)
2012 Ran Wei (Arizona State University; Alan Murray, advisor)
2013 Zhenhua Chen (George Mason University; Kingsley Haynes, advisor)
2014 No award made
2015 Ahmadreza Faghih Imani (McGill University; Naveen Eluru, advisor)
2016 Nick Tsivanidis (University of Chicago; Chang-Tai Hsieh, advisor)
2017 Lindsay E. Relihan (University of Pennsylvania; Gilles Duranton, advisor)
2018 Daniel Crown (The Ohio State University; Mark Partridge, advisor)
2019 Prottoy A. Akbar (University of Pittsburgh, Randall Walsh, advisor)
2020 Margaret Bock (West Virginia University, Joshua Hall, advisor)
2021 Melissa Haller (University of California, Los Angeles, David Rigby, advisor)
2022 Xuequan Elsie Peng (University of Pennsylvania, Gilles Duranton, advisor)
2023 Seohee Kim (Duke University, Daniel Yi Xu, advisor)
2024 Ashleigh Price (University of Alabama; Kevin Curtin, advisor)