PhD Candidate M.C. Overholt Receives 2025 Carter Manny Award Citation of Special Recognition in Writing

M.C. Overholt, PhD candidate in Architecture, has been honored by the 2025 Carter Manny Award Citation of Special Recognition in Writing from the Graham Foundation for her dissertation Sex Under Construction: Architecture, Sexual Science, and Queer Environments in the Twentieth-Century American City.

Overholt’s work examines how environmental conceptions of human sexual and gendered subjectivity—emerging from behavioral science and its peripheries—shaped architectural theory and practice in the United States.

Established in 1996, the Carter Manny Award supports the completion of outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The only predoctoral award dedicated exclusively to architectural scholarship, it recognizes emerging scholars whose work promises to challenge and reshape contemporary discourse and impact the field at large. The Carter Manny program is administered by the Graham Foundation in Chicago.