Call for proposals: The 2023 Arcus / Places Prize

We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Arcus / Places Prize.

Established in 2014, the prize is a collaboration between the Diversity Platforms Committee of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley and Places. It is funded by CED’s Arcus Endowment, which launched in 2000 with a generous gift from the Arcus Foundation.

The prize is open to mid-career and senior scholars and supports forward-thinking public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. We strongly encourage applicants to browse the journal and to read our statement on public scholarship in advance of submission.

The winner will receive an honorarium of 7,500 USD to produce a major work of public scholarship for Places and present a related lecture to be given in the College of Environmental Design.

Previous recipients include Alice T. Friedman, for “Queer Old Things,” in 2014; Jack Halberstam, for “Unbuilding Gender,” in 2018; Lucas Crawford, for “The Crumple and the Scrape,” in 2019; and Susan Stryker, for “At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor,” in 2021.

Application requirements
–An up-to-date CV, including a bibliography of recent publications
–A sample of published writing, ideally a work of public scholarship
–An abstract of the proposed article, no longer than 500 words
–A cover letter outlining the applicant’s qualifications and the significance of the proposed topic

Submission information
Applications will be accepted until 5pm Pacific Time on September 15, 2023. Applications should be submitted by email to arcus.research [​at​] gmail.com with the subject line: Arcus_Places_Scholar. Writing samples that exceed the attachment file size should be submitted via a file-sharing system referencing the same email address. For more details and full application requirements, see the competition guidelines.