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.