Allen J. Scott#
| Membership Number: | 3546 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Distinguished research professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2004 - 2012 Distinguished professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- 1994 - 2004 Full Professor, joint appointment in Department of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, and Department of Geography, University of California - Los Angeles
- 1981 - 1994 Full Professor, Department of Geography, University of California - Los Angeles
- 1973 - 1981 Full Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Toronto
- 1969 - 1973 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto
- 1967 - 1969 Research Associate of the Regional Science Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and visiting lecturer, Department of Town Planning, University College London
- 1965 - 1967 Assistant Professor of Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1965 - 1966
Fields of Scholarship
- Urban geography
- Regional development
- Globalization
- Cultural economy
- Political economy of cities
- Economic geography
Honours and Awards
- 1974 Professeur associé, Comité Consultatif des Universités, Paris
- 1984 Croucher Fellowship, University of Hong Kong
- 1986 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1986 Visiting Exchange Scholar under auspices of Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan University
- 1987 Honors Award, Association of American Geographers
- 1999 André Siegfried Chair, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris
- 1999 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2003 ISI highly cited (social sciences category)
- 2003 Vautrin Lud Prize
- 2004 First Trust Bank Chair of Innovation, Queen’s University, Belfast
- 2005 Chaire d’Excellence Pierre de Fermat, University of Toulouse le Mirail
- 2005 "On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry", awarded the Meridian Book Prize
- 2006 Wibaut Chair, University of Amsterdam, Holland
- 2006 Hallsworth Visiting Professorship, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
- 2008 Carol and Bruce Mallen Lifetime Achievement Award for studies in entertainment and media
- 2009 Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
- 2009 Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, National University of Singapore
- 2011 Doctor Honoris Causa, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
- 2012 Academic Icon, University of Malaya
- 2013 Sir Peter Hall Prize, Regional Studies Association.
- 2013 International Prize in Local Development, Colloque International sur le Territoire et les Systèmes Productifs,
- Cluses, France, 2013
