Honors, prizes, research grants, and fellowships awarded to Yonah Freemark.

Awards

1. President’s Evidence to Impact Award

   Urban Institute

   With Sam Batko, Alex Berger, Laurie Goodman, Lauren Lastowka, Aniket Mehrotra, Jim Parrot, Janneke Ratcliffe, Kate Reynelds, and Michael Stegman.

   2026

2. The 100 Most Influential Urbanists, Past and Present

   Planetizen

   Also named to The Most Influential Contemporary Urbanists.

   2023
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3. Outstanding PhD Dissertation

   MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

   Best dissertation in the department.

   2021
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4. 30 Under 35 Rising Stars of Real Estate

   Business Insider

   2021
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5. Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award

   Urban Affairs Association

   For work “exemplif[ying] outstanding scholarship in urban affairs,” given to one scholar in the nation.

   2019
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6. Excellence in Teaching by a Teaching Assistant

   MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Student Council

   2018

7. Top Ten Websites

   Planetizen

   Awarded to The Transport Politic.

   2010 and 2016

8. Flora Crockett Stephenson Writing Prize

   MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

   2013

Grants and Fellowships

1. Edward H. Linde (1962) Presidential Fellow

   MIT

   Funding for doctoral program.

   2016–2020

2. Dissertation Research Fellowship

   Harvard Center for European Studies

   Declined.

   2019–2020

3. Moody Foundation Research Grant

   Moody Foundation

   Funding for research at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

   2019

4. Lynne Sagalyn and Gary Hack Fund Research Award

   MIT

   Funding for dissertation research.

   2019

5. Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Award

   MIT

   Funding for dissertation research.

   2019

6. Summer Study Fellowship

   MIT Center for International Studies

   Funding for dissertation research.

   2019

7. International Policy Lab Grant

   MIT

   With Professor Jinhua Zhao. Engagement with municipalities on preparations and regulations related to autonomous vehicles.

   2018

8. William Emerson Travel Grant

   MIT

   Archival research examining the history of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962, at the New York City Public Library and the Rutgers University Archives.

   2017

9. William Emerson Travel Grant

   MIT

   Archival research examining the history of New York's Urban Development Corporation, at the Yale University Library and the University at Buffalo.

   2012

10. William Emerson Travel Grant

    MIT

    Archival research examining New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, at the Rockefeller Archive Center and the New York City Archives.

    2011

11. Gordon Grand Fellowship

    Yale University

    Post-graduate interview-based research studying housing development and community response in Paris.

    2008–2010

12. Mellon Fellowship

    Yale University

    Archival research on New York City housing, specifically on the history of Roosevelt Island.

    2008

13. David W. Baer Fellowship

    Yale University

    Site-based research examining the modernist architecture movement in France.

    2007

14. Leitner Research Grant

    Yale University

    Interview-based research studying decisions made about transit system construction in Charlotte, North Carolina.

    2006