Department of Geography and Environment Assistant Professor of Urban Environmental Geography Salary is no less than £65,244 and the salary scale can be found on the LSE website Tentative start date 1 September 2025. The LSE’s Department of Geography and Environment is inviting applications for a new position in Urban Environmental Geography. The successful candidate will...Read More
We invite you to apply to the Memphis ’25 Institute on Teaching Social Action at the National Civil Rights Museum on March 8-9, 2025. All sessions will be led by Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, Director of Teaching Social Action, Dr. A.T. Harrison from the Urban Studies Department at Rhodes, and Bobby Hackett, President of the Bonner Foundation....Read More
The Kauffman Foundation is has a new Research RFP on Racial Wealth Gaps. The Kauffman Foundation’s Research grant opportunities offer funding for forward-facing research projects that both catalyze the field and develop greater understanding of how to close racial wealth gaps. By deepening the understanding of how racial wealth gaps are built, sustained, and dismantled,...Read More
Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Urban Planning and Social Justice (De Gruyter: Berlin), edited by Robert Silverman (Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Buffalo, [email protected]). Submit chapter proposals to the editor ([email protected]) by December 16, 2024. The initial draft of chapters is due by May 5, 2025 (for peer...Read More
As co-editors, we wish to invite scholars, researchers, students, instructors, and other intellectually interested parties to submit proposals for The Handbook for the Geographies of Race, A Multidisciplinary Global Perspective through De Gruyter, an important initial transdisciplinary volume that will be co-edited by Rasul A. Mowatt (Professor – North Carolina State University, Sociology & Anthropology, Parks, Recreation and Tourism...Read More
Creating healthy and sustainable cities Bristol, UK, 10-13 June 2025 The international conference of the European Urban Research Association (EURA) aims to advance understanding of how to co-create healthy, sustainable and more equitable cities. You are invited to participate in this forward-looking conference. Please submit your abstract or panel proposal by Thursday 31 October 2024....Read More
Fall Webinars Job Search WebinarDate: October 11, 2024 @ 12pm ETTarget Audience: Early career professionalsParticipation Requirement: Current UAA membership; Join or Renew Application: Application Form; Apply by September 26 CoordinatorNina Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill SpeakersKate Nelischer, University of Southern CaliforniaKari Smith, Urban Affairs AssociationAnaid Yerena, University of Washington TacomaPaul Jargowsky, Rutgers University+++Navigating Promotion to Full Professor &...Read More
Tom Borrup and Andrew Zitcer are thrilled to announce a new edited volume Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life. In this time of democratic deficit, artists and culture bearers are showing us new ways of addressing gaps in dialogue across difference, voter mobilization, community development, racial reckoning, and more. The book...Read More
Papers are invited from scholars and practitioners with thoughtful, rigorous research, analysis and commentary on residential densification in urban areas, to further cross-national comparative conversations on the forms, challenges and outcomes of densification in countries around the world. We expect this project to lead to an edited volume or a special issue of a relevant...Read More
Derek Hyra has a new book coming out August 5, 2024. In Slow and Sudden Violence, Hyra weaves together a persuasive unrest narrative, linking police aggression to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate history of the St. Louis region and Baltimore, Hyra shows how housing...Read More
The University of Memphis Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration is proud to host the 2024 Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA) “Transforming Public and Nonprofit Governance: Shaping Sustainable Communities for Tomorrow”. The deadline for the Call for Papers has been extended!—submit your proposal for individual presentation, fully formed panel, or workshop here. We are especially...Read More
The College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs (CAPPA) is pleased to announce Deden Rukmana as the new Director of the Master of City and Regional Planning program in the Department of Public Affairs and Planning. Rukmana currently serves as professor and chairperson of the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Alabama A&M University....Read More
CFP | The 2nd Global Urban Governance and Policy Conference June 29-30, 2024 Shanghai, China Organizers School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University China Institute for Urban Governance (CIUG), Shanghai Jiao Tong University Co-Organizers China-America Association for Public Affairs (CAAPA) Chinese Policy Scholars Group (CPSG) Urban China Research Network (UCRN) Shanghai...Read More
The series editors for the new Disrupting Urban Policy book series will be available to meet with individuals who are interested in publishing in the series on Friday at 11:30 – 12:30 in the book exhibit (Westside Ballroom 1). The University of Pennsylvania Press will also have information about the series available at their exhibit...Read More
Rutgers University- Newark (RU-N), an urban public research university and anchor institution, located in Newark, New Jersey, a city of promise is seeking a Qualitative Research Manager for the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies. Reporting to the Director of the Cornwall Center, this position will be responsible for developing, overseeing, and conducting qualitative...Read More
