We are excited to announce our 2024-2025 professional development opportunities. These unique career-building activities are available to UAA members. Join or Renew!Read More
Dear UAA Community, We are pleased to announce the launch of the application/nomination forms for the 2025 Urban Affairs Association (UAA) awards. A brief description of each award is provided below. Full descriptions, including award benefits & nomination instructions, are available on the UAA website. You must be a current UAA member to nominate someone for...Read More
UAA Professional Development Coordinator Positions Application Deadline: July 31, 2024 Early-career special topics coordinator Early-career workshops coordinator Mid- & advanced-career coordinator Benefits (approximately $7500 in benefits per coordinator) Complimentary UAA membership (valued $83) Coordinator conference support One (1) registration waiver ($450) One (1) set of complimentary reception tickets ($275) Five (5) nights of complimentary lodging...Read More
The Scholar Development Editors (SDEs) of the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA), which is sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), will host the UAA Publishing Fellows Program from August 2024 to August 2025. The Publishing Fellows Program is for early career scholars (Doctoral students, untenured assistant professors). The year-long program will include writing and publication workshops, as well as individual...Read More
The Urban Affairs Association seeks a Book Review Editor(s) for the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA). Book reviews are important for several reasons. First, they offer a unique contribution to scholarly debate on urban topics, providing the opportunity for scholars and practitioners to offer new insights about a book and how its argument and research...Read More
UAA is excited to announce that our 2025 Conference will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia! We will start to roll out more specific details and deadlines in the next few weeks. Abstract/proposal submission will open July 1.Read More
TH 1.00.26 Belonging in Spaces of PowerThu, April 25 @ 1:00 PM – 2:30 PMWESTSIDE BALLROOM SALON 3 (5th Floor) MODERATORKitty Kelly Epstein, Fielding Graduate University PRESENTATIONSWhose Streets Are These, Anyway? Queer Social Movement Reterritorialization in a Gentrifying Greenwich VillageJoe Gallegos, University of California Irvine The Right to Belong in the Neoliberal City: Historicizing Queer...Read More
Dr. Naa Oyo Kwate (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) has been selected to receive the 2024 Best Book in the Field of Urban Affairs Award for White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). This annual award is given to a book that is well-written...Read More
Dr. Derek Hyra (American University) has been selected to receive the 2024 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award. The award is co-sponsored by SAGE and the Urban Affairs Association (UAA).This award was established to highlight field-based urban scholarship and promote the dissemination of work by activist urban scholars. The inspiration for this award is the...Read More
Dr. Kenton Card (Boston University) has been selected to receive the 2024 Janet Smith Emerging Activist Scholar Research Award. This award is sponsored by the Voorhees Family and Individual Donors. This annual award recognizes an emerging activist scholar whose research record shows a direct relationship between activism, scholarship, and engagement with community(ies). This award honors...Read More
Dr. Lauren Forbes (University of Cincinnati) has been selected to receive the 2024 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award. This annual award is given to a promising Ph.D. candidate or early career researcher whose work demonstrates a commitment to rigorous and impactful research and service. It was renamed in 2004 in honor of Alma H....Read More
Dr. David Imbroscio (University of Louisville) has been selected to receive the 2024 Best Article in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City Award for his paper “Race matters (even more than you already think): Racism, housing, and the limits of The Color of Law.” This award is sponsored by Routledge | Taylor &...Read More
Dr. Patricia Posey (University of Chicago) has been selected to receive the 2024 Best Paper in Urban Entrepreneurship Award for her paper “The Role of Race, Class, and the Density of High-Cost Financial Markets.”This award seeks to recognize research presented at the 2023 UAA Conference as part of the Special Track on Urban Entrepreneurship sponsored...Read More
