TWO BRYN MAWR SCHOLARS WIN PUBLICATION AWARDS

Learned societies have recently recognized two Bryn Mawr scholars with important publication awards. Assistant Professor Carola Hein of the Growth and Structure of Cities Program won the "Planning Perspectives Best Article Prize 2002-03" from the International Society of Planning Historians. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies Alan Keenan won the First Book Award from the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association.

Carola Hein

Hein's "Best Article" prize was awarded at the biennial conference of the ISPH, which took place in Barcelona this summer. She was the first-ever recipient of this award, which will be given each time the society convenes to the author determined to have written the best paper published in Planning Perspectives in the two calendar years before the conference. Planning Perspectives is an internationally renowned peer-reviewed journal. Hein received the award for her two-part article titled "Maurice Rotival: French Planning on a World-Scale," published in the journal in 2002. At the conference, Hein also presented a paper on a different topic, titled "Brussels, the Headquarters City of the European Union — A New Capital Paradigm?" Hein's research for the presentation was partially funded by a three-month grant awarded by the Brussels-Capital Region government.

Alan Keenan

Keenan's award, presented in Chicago in early September at the 100th annual meeting of the APSA, was for "the best first book published in 2003 by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career in the area of political theory/philosophy," the APSA Web site says. The prizewinning publication is titled Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure. Reviewers have praised its "provocative and excellent" examination of the "tension between the requirement that the people have a stable identity based on particular traditions and institutions and the basic openness at the heart of democracy, including an openness to revising the very boundaries of the 'we' who rule."

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