Award Recipients Bruce Nissen (Florida International University) Joan Wynne – Honorable Mention (Florida International University) Award Committee Assessment The award committee reviewed several nominees from the Miami area. However, we were unanimous in selecting Dr. Bruce Nissen for this year’s Activist Scholar Award. We agree with the statements made by his nominators that are cited...Read More

Award Recipients Lawrence J. Vale Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities Sonia Hirt – Honorable Mention Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation Award Committee Assessment From this set of books, we agreed on two that stood out. For honorable mention, we selected Sonia...Read More

Award Recipients George Galster (Wayne State University), Anna Santiago (Case Western Reserve University) and Lisa Stack (Wayne State University) Award Committee Assessment Papers presented at the 2014 UAA Conference in San Antonio, Texas and subsequently submitted to the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) in July 2014, were considered for this award. All submitted papers went...Read More

Award Recipient Amy Khare (University of Chicago) Award Committee Assessment For the 2015 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award, the Committee recommends Amy Turnbull Khare at the University of Chicago. Ms. Khare is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in the School of Social Service Administration, and she is completing a dissertation entitled “Privatization...Read More

(Based on articles from the Volume year of 2013) Award Recipient T. William Lester (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Award Committee Assessment After weeks of careful deliberation, the Best JUA Article 2014 Committee has chosen T. William Lester’s article, “The Role of History in Redistributional Policy Discourse,” (36, Nr. 4, pp. 783-806). Committee members...Read More