Allen John Scott (born 1938) is a professor of

geography Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding o ...

and

public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a Group decision-making, decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to Problem solving, solve or address relevant and problematic social issues, guided by a conceptio ...

at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

Biography

Scott was born in Liverpool, England in 1938 and was raised in Carlisle. Scott graduated from St John's College, Oxford University, in 1961. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University (1965). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, University College London, University of Toronto, University of Paris, University of Hong Kong, and from 1981 at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a distinguished professor with joint appointments in the Department of Public Policy and the Department of Geography. Scott became Professor Emeritus in 2013.

Awards and honors

* Professeur associé, elected by the French Comité Consultatif des Universités, 1974 - 1975. * Croucher Fellow, University of Hong Kong, 1984 * Visiting Exchange Scholar under auspices of Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences, 1986 *

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

, 1986–87 * Awarded honors by the

Association of American Geographers The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields. Its headquarters is located in Washington, D.C. The ...

, 1987 * Elected fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

, 1999 * André Siegfried Chair, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1999 *

Vautrin Lud Prize The ''Prix International de Géographie Vautrin-Lud'', known in English as the Vautrin Lud Prize, is the highest award in the field of geography. Established in 1991, the award is named after the 16th Century French scholar , who first named, in 1 ...

, 2003 * First Trust Bank Chair of Innovation, Queen's University, Belfast, 2004. * Chaire d'Excellence Pierre de Fermat, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, 2005 * Hallsworth Visiting Professorship, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, 2006 * Wibaut Chair, University of Amsterdam, 2006 * "On Hollywood: the Place, the Industry" awarded Meridian Book Prize, 2006 * Carol and Bruce Mallen Lifetime Achievement Award for Published Scholarly Contributions to Motion Picture Industry Studies, 2008 * Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2009 * Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the

Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG; ) is a scientific learned society founded in December 1877. It was established after a rearrangement of various sections of the Anthropological Society, which was formed in 1873 by Hjalmar ...

, awarded by King

Carl XVI Gustaf Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. Having reigned since 1973, he is the longest-reigning monarch in Swedish history. Carl Gustaf was born during the reign of his paternal great-grandfather, K ...

of Sweden, 2009. * Doctor Honoris Causa, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, 2011Stadt, Land, Raum - Gesellschaft: Raum- und Zeitforscher Allen J. Scott erhält am 24. Oktober Ehrendoktorwürde
* Academic Icon, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2012. * Prix de l'Association des Economistes de Langues Néolatines, 2013. * Elected to the Academia Europaea, 2013. * Sir Peter Hall Prize, awarded by the

Regional Studies Association The Regional Studies Association is a learned society with an international network of academics, policy makers and practitioner members. It was founded in 1965, following the foundation of the Regional Science Association in the USA and Internati ...

, 2013. * Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of Toronto, 2021. * Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, 2022.

References

External links

Department of Geography
at UCLA
Department of Public Policy
at UCLA
2010LAB

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