Applications Are Open for the 2023 Arcus | Places Prize

Places Editors

June 14, 2023

Clockwise from top left: The intersection of Turk and Taylor Streets, ca. 1972–1985. [Courtesy Nick DeWolf Archive]; Frank Gehry, Dr. Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology Sydney, 2014. [Wikimedia Commons]; Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, portrait by Cecil Beaton. [Cecil Beaton Archive]; Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974 [Courtesy The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner, © The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark/Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York]
Clockwise from top left: The intersection of Turk and Taylor Streets, ca. 1972–1985 [Courtesy Nick DeWolf Archive]; Frank Gehry, Dr. Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology Sydney, 2014 [Wikimedia Commons]; Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, portrait by Cecil Beaton [Cecil Beaton Archive]; Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974 [Courtesy The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner, © The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark/Artist’s Rights Society (ARS), New York].

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 or 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 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.

Applications will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. PDT on September 15, 2023. For more details and full application requirements, see the competition guidelines.