Professor Madhuri Sharma and co-author Mikhail Samarin (’23) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are receiving the Wrigley-Fairchild Award for the best paper published in the Geographical Review in 2024. Their research examined the experience of immigrants in the Nashville housing market.
In the Department of Geography and Sustainability, Sharma has been exploring why people live where they live, and Samarin was focused on rent-burden analysis while writing his doctoral dissertation. Together they were able to test the index Samarin created for measuring rent burden at a macro scale, and given the significance of scale in the discipline of geography, and how it explained rent burden on a micro level, this work was published.