The Masonry Society’s (TMS) Student Thesis Awards are presented annually by TMS’s Research Committee to the best doctoral dissertation and master’s thesis on masonry topics.
Masters theses or reports will be considered that were submitted for degree requirements between May 16, 2023 and June 1, 2024. Masters reports must be publicly available (referenceable) to be eligible.
Ph.D. dissertations that are submitted for degree requirements between June 1, 2022 and May 31st, 2024 are eligible for this award. Ph.D. dissertations previously sent to TMS for award selection and that meet the current Ph.D. completion date requirements, are still eligible and will be automatically considered without the need for resubmittal.Theses must be submitted to TMS no later than June 1st of the award year. Upload your thesis as a PDF in the form below (no larger than 20 MB) or email it to info@masonrysociety.org.
Recipient Summary
- 2023: Chiara Ferrero
- 2022: Demiana Tse and Ali Dalalbashi Esfahani
- 2021: Karren Izquierdo and Larisa Garcia-Ramonda
- 2020: Nader Aly and Clayton Pettit
- 2019: Shady Hesham Abdel-Mohaimen Bakr Salem, Daniele Malomo, Sarah Elizabeth Jemison, and Amir Rezaeivahdati
- 2018: Ala’ Taleb Mufleh Obaidat, Savvas Saloustros, and Hannah Keelson
- 2017: Ahmed Ashour and Dafne C. Martin-Alarcon
- 2016: Susana Maria Trinidade Moreira and Tamás Forgács
- 2015: Saman Babaeidarabad and Bennett Banting
- 2014: Charlotte Louise Knox and Madeleine P. Joyal
- 2013: Najif Ismail and Rashid Popal
- 2012: Ioannis Koutromanos and Sarah E. Ebright
- 2011: Dziugas Reneckis, Alistair Peter Russell, and Kawsar Ahmed
- 2010: Seongwoo Jo, Andreas Stavridis, and Benchmark Harris
- 2009: Vladimir Guilherme Haach and Courtney Lynn Davis
- 2008: Jennifer B. Popehn and Jon Mjelde
- 2007: Kok Choon Voon and Marwan Mohamed Tarek Shedid
- 2006: Omer Onur Erbay, Gavin D. Wight, and Saman Afqahi Aryana
- 2005: Gregory L. Cohen and Matthew K. Snook
- 2004: Franklin L. Moon, Jennifer E. Tanner, and Ian K. Eikanas
- 2003: Eleni-Eva Toumbakari and Bruce Chen
- 2002: Junyi Yi and Owen Arthur Rosenboom
- 2001: Augustin Dukuze and Eric John Seaverson
- 2000: Francisco Javier Crisafulli and Ben Roberts
- 1999: Chin K. Shea and Jason J. Thompson
- 1998: Andrew C. Costley and Christian C. R. Badger
- 1997: Armin Mehrabi and Jose Madero
- 1996: Khaled S. Ibrahim and Daniel E. Domalik
- 1995: Magdy M.S. Khattab and John D. Brunner
- 1994: Sean Liaw
- 1993: Gilberto Leiva and Scott Turner
- 1992: Pin Guo