Outstanding Student Thesis Award
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.
Deadline
Theses must be submitted to TMS no later than June 1st of the award year. Click the link below to upload your thesis as a single PDF. Files should be no larger than 20 MB.
Eligibility Requirements
Masters Theses
- Must have been submitted for degree requirements between May 16, 2024 and June 1, 2025
- Must be publicly available
Ph.D. Dissertations
- Must have been submitted for degree requirements between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2025
- Ph.D. dissertations previously submitted to TMS for consideration and meet the current Ph.D. completion date requirements are eligible and will be automatically considered without the need for resubmittal.
Recipient Summary
- 2024: Georgios Karanikoloudis and Aristeidis Dalianis
- 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