International Editorial Team

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Editor-in-Chief

Bernadette Hanlon
Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Bernadette Hanlon is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Program at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University (OSU). She specializes in the political economy of metropolitan regions, focusing on issues of suburban transformation, housing conditions and community development. Dr. Hanlon is the author of three books, Once the American Dream: Inner-ring Suburbs in the Metropolitan United States, Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US (with John Rennie Short and Thomas J. Vicino) and Global Migration: The Basics (with Thomas J. Vicino) and co-editor (with Thomas J. Vicino) of The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs. She is also author of numerous articles in some of the leading journals in urban studies.

Dr. Hanlon teaches courses in urban planning theory, housing policy and planning, and research design. She is currently the Chair of the Bachelor of Science City and Regional Planning Section at OSU. She has been an active member of the Urban Affairs Association, serving on multiple committees, as well as organizing sessions and making presentations at annual conferences. In 2016, she was elected to the UAA Governing Board and served as Vice Chair before assuming the editorship of the Journal of Urban Affairs. She is also an active member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. She has a PhD. in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Managing Editor

Casey Wagner
Casey Wagner
Urban Affairs Association

Senior Associate Editors

Andrew Kirby
Andrew Kirby
Arizona State University (USA)
Deirdre Pfeiffer
Deirdre Pfeiffer
Arizona State University (USA)
Patrick Cobbinah
Patrick Cobbinah
University of Melbourne (Australia)
Clarissa Freitas
UFC - Federal University of Ceará (Brazil)
Katrin Anacker
Katrin Anacker
George Mason University (USA)
June Wang
June Wang
City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Cathy Yang Liu
Cathy Yang Liu
Georgia State University (USA)
Igor Vojnovic
Igor Vojnovic
Michigan State University (USA)
Valeria Fedeli
Valeria Fedeli
Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Associate Editors

James DeFilippis
Rutgers University (USA)
Jason Luger
Jason Luger
Northumbria University (England)
Jonathan Davies
De Montfort University (England)
Lin Ye
Sun Yat-sen University (China)
Pierre Filion
Pierre Filion
University of Waterloo (Canada)
Elena Vesselinov
Elena Vesselinov
Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY (USA)
Michael Leo Owns
Emory University (USA)

Book Review Editors

David Varady
University of Cincinnati (USA)
Leah Hollstein
Leah Hollstein
University of Cincinnati (USA)

Scholar Development Editors

Jason Reece
Ohio State University (USA)
Davia Downey
University of Memphis (USA)
Jocelyn Taliaferro
Morgan State University (USA)
Brenda Parker
Brenda Parker
University of Illinois Chicago (USA)
Santina Contreras
University of Southern California (USA)
Michael Glass
University of Pittsburgh (USA)

International Editorial Board

Elvin Wyly
Elvin Wyly
University of British Columbia (Canada)
Paula Russell
University College Dublin (Ireland)
Jennifer Clark
Ohio State University (USA)
Deidre Oakley
Georgia State University (USA)
Elizabeth Strom
University of South Florida (USA)
Akira Drake Rodriguez
University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Weiping Wu
Columbia University (USA)
Yasminah Beebeejaun
University College London (England)
Brij Maharaj
University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Katherine Hankins
Katherine Hankins
Georgia State University (USA)
Ernesto Lopez-Morales
University of Chile (Chile)
Roger Keil
York University (Canada)
Manuel Aalbers
Manuel Aalbers
KU Leuven (Belgium)
Sue-ching Jou
Sue-Ching Jou
National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Zhumin Xu
Laboratoire Techniques territoires et Societes-LATT (France)
Rachel Kleit
Ohio State University (USA)
Nicholas Phelps
Nicholas Phelps
University of Melbourne (Australia)
Susan Fainstein
Harvard University (USA)
Ashima Sood
Ashima Sood
Anant National University (India)
David Merriman
David Merriman
University of Illinois Chicago (USA)
Paul Speer
Vanderbilt University (USA)
Don Mitchell
Don Mitchell
Uppsala University (Sweden)
Arturo Flores
Anahuac University (Mexico)
Bill Rohe
William Rohe
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
Rui Wang
Rui Wang
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China)
Prentiss Dantzler
University of Toronto (Canada)
Ali Modarres
University of Washington Tacoma (USA)
Paul Jargowsky
Rutgers University (USA)
Gordana Rabrenovic
Northeastern University (USA)
Ben Derudder
Ben Derudder
KU Leuven (Belgium)
John Rennie Short
University of Maryland Baltimore County (USA)
Sabina Deitrich
University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Loraine Kennedy
French National Center for Scientific Research, EHESS (France)

Past Editors-In-Chief

  • Patricia Klobus Edwards (1981-1984)
  • John R. Gist (1984-1987)
  • Scott Cummings & Knowlton W. Johnson (1987-1989)
  • Scott Cummings & C. Theodore Koebel (1989-1992)
  • Scott Cummings & Hank Savitch (1993-1998)
  • Scott Cummings (1998-2005)
  • Victoria Basolo (2005-2010)
  • Laura Reese (2010-2015)
  • Igor Vojnovic (2015-2021)