RSAI Fellows

RSAI members are invited to nominate distinguished scholars for consideration to become RSAI Fellows in the 2012 election. A nomination can be initiated by any member of RSAI, and consists of a letter of nomination, detailing the scientific merit and contribution of the nominee, and an up-to-date curriculum vitae. Current Fellows are not allowed to submit nominations. To ensure full consideration by the committee, these materials should be provided in electronic format (pdf preferred) by January 31, 2012 to Piet Rietveld, Chair 2012 Fellows Election Committee at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

RSAI is pleased to announce the election of the following Fellows in 2011:

Åke E. Anderson, Jönköping International Business School, SWEDEN
Gordon Mulligan, University of Arizona, USA

RSAI is delighted to announce the following have been elected as Fellows from 2010:

Paul Krugman, Princeton University, USA
Diego Puga, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies, SPAIN
Aura Reggiani, University of Bologna, ITALY
Robert Stimson, University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Gerald Carlino, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, USA
Richard Morrill, University of Washington, USA
Michael Sonis, Bar-Ilan University, ISRAEL
David Plane, University of Arizona, USA
Eric Verhoef, VU University Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Henk Folmer, Wageningen and Groningen Universities, THE NETHERLANDS

RSAI send its congratulations to the new set of 2009 Fellows:

Antoine Bailly, University of Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Richard Church, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Bernard Fingleton, University of Strathclyde, UK
Reginald Golledge, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Peter Gordon, University of Southern California, USA
Daniel Griffith, University of Dallas, USA
Keith Ihlanfeldt, Florida State University, USA
James LeSage, Texas State University, USA
Janice Madden, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Piet Rietveld, VU University Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Anthony Venables, University of Oxford, UK

In 2008, seven new Fellows of the RSAI were honoured. They are:

T.R.Lakshmanan, Boston University, USA
Daniel McMillen, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
John McDonald, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jan Oosterhaven, University of Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
Harry W. Richardson, University of Southern California, USA
Roger Stough, George Mason University, USA
Takatoshi Tabuchi, University of Tokyo, JAPAN

In 2007, five new Fellows of the RSAI were honoured at the North American Meetings for a world-wide total of 32 from six disciplines and eight countries. They are:

Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Harry H. Kelejian, University of Maryland, USA
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts, USA
Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou, McMaster University, CANADA
Alan Wilson, University College London, England, UK

In 2006, ten new Fellows of the RSAI were honoured at the North American Meetings for a world-wide total of 27 from six disciplines and eight countries. They are:

Alex Anas, SUNY Buffalo, USA
Richard Arnott, Boston College, USA
Peter Batey, University of Liverpool, UK
Manfred M. Fischer, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA
Michael J. Greenwood, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Kingsley Haynes, George Mason University, USA
Tschango John Kim, University of Illinois, USA
Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota, USA
John Parr, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Kenneth A. Small, University of California, Irvine, USA

In 2005, five members of the RSAI were honoured at the 52nd North American Meetings at Las Vegas:

Marcus Berliant, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Jan K. Brueckner, University of California, Irvine, USA
Arthur Getis, San Diego State University, USA
David Pines, Tel-Aviv University, ISRAEL
Karen R. Polenske, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

In 2004, four Fellows were elected, and recognized at the 51st North American Meetings at Seattle:

Luc Anselin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
J. Vernon Henderson, Brown University, USA
Peter Nijkamp, Erasmus University, NETHERLANDS
John M. Quigley, University of California, Berkeley, USA

In 2003, four Fellows were elected by the inaugural Fellows, and recognized at the 50th North American Meetings in Philadelphia:

Masahisa Fujita, Kyoto University, JAPAN
Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Tony E. Smith, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jacques Thisse, Catholic University of Louvain, BELGIUM

In 2002, the RSAI Council initiated the RSAI Fellows Award to honour a select group of members of the Association who have made important scholarly and research contributions to the field of regional science. The inaugural Fellows were the living recipients of the Founder's Medal at that time:

Walter Isard, Cornell University, USA
Martin Beckmann, Brown University, USA and Technical University of Munich, Germany
Jean Paelinck, Erasmus University, NETHERLANDS
David Boyce, Northwestern University, USA

Congratulations to all!