Past Award & Competition Winners

AAG Conference Registration Award

2023 Manan Sarupria, University of Delaware

2022 Morgan L. Rogers, University of California, Los Angeles

2021 Joshua Z. Merced, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

AAG Membership Award

2022 Wei Chen, Iowa State University

2021  Desiree Valadares, University of California, Berkeley 

Student Presentation Competition

2021  First Place: Sanober Mirza, University of Montana

      Runner-up: Key MacFarlane, University of California - Santa Cruz


2019  First Place: Ryan Good, University of Florida

      Runner-up: Yang Liu, University of Alabama


2018  First Place: Rachel Lamb, University of Maryland

          Runner-up: Sean Pries, University of California-Davis


2017  Best Student Presentation Award:  Marie Louise Ryan, Penn State University


2016  Best Student Presentation Award:  Yinan He, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

          Student Short Paper Competition Award:  Mark Rhodes, Kent State University


2013  Student Paper Award:  Melissa Belz, Kansas State University


2011  Student Paper Award:  Stephanie Wilbrand, University of Girona 


Photography Competition

Congratulations to María Ruiz de Gopegui Aramburu from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona for winning First Place in the competition for her photo.

Photograph showing a large grey-blue skyscraper with multiple shorter buildings behind it. The buildings are alongside water and a walkway is visible in the foreground along adjacent to the water. In the lower righthand corner there is thick green grass and some shrubs. The sky is a bright blue with white fluffy clouds. There is one person visible on the walkway.
Winter in Hunters Point South Park, Queens, NYC. This photo speaks about learning and evolution in urban planning, a landscape of coexistence between human and non-human living beings.This photo is not to be distributed, edited, or reused for any purpose without  permission.

Congratulations to Archana Singh from University of Delhi for winning Runner-up.

Photograph of a pathway raised on pylons on the left and a stretch of buildings with green trees behind them on the right. In the foreground is patchy green ground cover and some sort of beige metal. The sky is a hazy grey.
The construction of mega projects like the Riverfront (right) and Ganga pathway (left) in Patna have led to the physical erasure of river Ganga from its ghats. What remains in the form of a dry bed today is a memory of a river that was once an inseparable part of the city.This photo is not to be distributed, edited, or reused for any purpose without permission.

Congratulations to Rabindra Parajuli  from Florida Atlantic University for winning People's Choice.

Photograph of a woman with a flat circular basket raised above her head. Behind her is a grey house and stone walls and further behind this are mountains with dense, dark green foliage and a blue sky with some clouds. In the foreground is a white plastic bag. She is standing on a blue tarp with brown piles in front of her.
An indigenous woman in Langtang Village of Nepal’s Himalayas is winnowing to separate buckwheat. In the Himalayas, people have evolved traditional practices to thrive amicably with topographically, climatically, and biologically diverse landscapes – exemplifying the coexistence of nature and humankind. This photo is not to be distributed, edited, or reused for any purpose without permission.

2023 First Place of Photography Competition:  María Ruiz de Gopegui Aramburu, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 

Runner-up: Archana Singh, University of Delhi

People's Choice:  Rabindra Parajuli, Florida Atlantic University


2022 First Place of Photography Competition:  Mitchell Synder,  UC Davis 

Runner-up: Wellington Romão Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Ceará 

People's Choice: Wellington Romão Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Ceará 


2021 First Place of Photography Competition:  Preston Welker, University of Calgary 

      Runner-up: Pankaj Bajracharya, University of North Carolina Greensboro


2019  First Place of Photography Competition: RJ Rowley, Illinois State University

      Runner-up: Adam Hasan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


2018  First Place: Savannah Collins-Key, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

      Runner-up: Abel Ayon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte