The Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference is organized by doctoral students for doctoral students engaged in urban-, planning-, and policy-related research across disciplines and universities in the tri-state NJ-NY-PA metropolitan region. Doctoral students at any stage of research are invited and encouraged to present at the conference.
You can participate in the conference whether you are in your first year of studies and testing potential topics, you have just defended a finished dissertation, or at any stage of your research.
Presentations can outline a tentative research topic (planning stage), survey the literature (lit review stage), report preliminary findings (early findings stage), or provide an overview of a completed dissertation/paper (complete project stage).
Deadline for Abstracts: 5pm Wednesday, February 11th, 2026