FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 30, 2007
College Park, MD -- American Studies at the University of Maryland is pleased to announce that Kelly Quinn, a 2007 Ph.D. graduate, has won a
national dissertation prize for the best dissertation completed between
July 2005 and June 2007 in the field of planning history.
Dr. Kelly
Quinn was awarded the John Reps Dissertation Award for “Making Modern
Homes: A History
of Langston Terrace Dwellings, A New Deal Housing Program in
Washington, D.C." by the Society for American City and Regional
Planning History, the premier professional society in planning history
in North America. The prize was awarded at last week's Twelfth
National Conference on Planning History, held in Portland, Maine.
"Quinn’s work provocatively places African American reformers including architect Hilyard Robinson, and the African American tenants themselves at the center of the conception, design, and management of the Langston Terrace Dwellings in Washington D.C., despite its federal origins in the Public Works Administration," said Dr. D. Bradford Hunt of Roosevelt University of Dr. Quinn's project. "In this way, her study pushes our understanding of race and planning in new directions and recovers the agency of African Americans who not only lived in but also shaped public housing."
Dr. Quinn is now an Assistant Professor in American Studies at
Miami University of Ohio.
Recently ranked as the third best program of its kind in the country, the American Studies Department and Program at the University of Maryland is one of the oldest such programs in the United States, having operated continuously since 1945. For much of its history, the Program has been nationally recognized for its contributions to the field, which initially entwined history and literature. The Department offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees.
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