Award Recipient Nico Calavita (San Diego State University) Award Committee Assessment Dr. Calavita’s record of scholarship and engagement reflects a clear commitment to confronting issues of direct concern to urban residents and their communities. Such a record shows a clear respect for equity, an understanding of complex social relationships, in-depth knowledge of political and economic...Read More
Paper presented at the 2015 UAA conference Award Recipients Theodore Pride (Wayne State University), Catherine Schmitt-Sands (Wayne State University), and Richard Smith (Wayne State University) Award Committee Assessment The Committee finds that the paper, “Does Spatial Assimilation Lead to Reproduction of Gentrification in the Global City?,” to be very well written, and that it provides...Read More
Award Recipient George Galster (Wayne State University) Award Committee Assessment The reach and impact of George Galster’s work has been truly remarkable. His creative and methodologically sophisticated scholarship has challenged conventional thinking and helped shape the field of urban affairs, most notably in the areas of: racial and economic segregation, neighborhood effects on individual outcomes,...Read More
Award Recipient Megan Heim LaFrombois (University of Illinois at Chicago) Award Committee Assessment The Urban Affairs Association is proud to award its 2016 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award to Megan Heim LaFrombrois, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms. LaFrombrois’s dissertation, “Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space: A Feminist Exploration...Read More
“Tolerance in the City: The Multilevel Effects of Urban Environments on Permissive Attitudes.” Volume 37, Issue 3, August 2015 Award Recipients Jeffrey Debies-Carl (University of New Haven) and Christopher Huggins (University of Kentucky) Committee Assessment The committee recommends that Christopher Huggins and Jeffrey Debies-Carl receive an Honorable Mention for their article, “Tolerance in the City:...Read More
“Geographies of Whiteness and Wealth: White, Middle Class Discourses on Segregation and Social Mix in Flanders, Belgium.” Volume 37, Issue 4, October 2015 Award Recipients Pascal De Decker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Bruno Meeus (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), and Nick Schuermans (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Universiteit Antwerpen). Award Committee Assessment The committee recommends that the Best Article...Read More
