Award Benefits
The recipient(s) of the award receives:
- A special award plaque
- A complimentary conference registration waiver (including meal + reception tickets) for each author for the conference at which the award is received (valued at $500+ USD)
- A conference fellowship of $1500 USD
- Co-authors share the fellowship in an even division (e.g., two authors would each receive 50% of the fellowship) unless they decide on a different allocation
- The fellowship may only be used toward conference-related costs (e.g., air ticket; train ticket; conference hotel room+taxes). To minimize the financial burden on recipients, UAA may apply the fellowship directly by purchasing travel tickets for authors and paying lodging bills up to the total fellowship amount; or, the recipient(s) can pay expenses upfront and seek reimbursement.
The plaque will be presented at the Annual Awards Program held during the spring conference. Following the conference, a press release will be prepared announcing the winner.
Award Selection Process
Each spring, the award is determined by a committee appointed by the Chair of the UAA Governing Board. All articles published in the most recent complete volume of the journal are automatically eligible for consideration. The committee chair reports the decision to the UAA Executive Director. The UAA Executive Office notifies the recipient.
Past Recipients
Note: Award year in parenthesis denotes year when the award was given. Article would have been published the previous year.
- (2022) Ryan Allen and Carissa Schively Slotterback
Building immigrant engagement practice in urban planning: The case of Somali refugees in the Twin Cities
Volume 43, Issue 6, 2021
Award Press Release
- (2021) Philip Garboden and Christine Jang-Trettien
‘There’s money to be made in community’: Real estate developers, community organizing, and profit-making in a shrinking city
Volume 44, Issue 3, 2020
Award Press Release
- (2020) Melissa Anne Currie and Janni Sorenson
Repackaged “Urban Renewal”: Issues of Spatial Equity and Environmental Justice in New Construction, Suburban Neighborhoods, and Urban Islands of Infill
Volume 41, Issue 4, 2019
Award Press Release
- (2019) Kathryn L. Howell
“For the kids”: Children, safety, and the depoliticization of displacement in Washington, DC
Volume 40, Issue 5, 2018
Award Press Release
- (2019) Yana Kucheva and Richard Sander
Structural versus ethnic dimensions of housing segregation
Volume 40, Issue 3, 2018
Award Press Release
- (2018) Carolina K. Reid, Debbie Bocian and Wei Li
Revisiting the subprime crisis: The dual mortgage market and mortgage defaults by race and ethnicity
Volume 39, Issue 4, 2017
Award Press Release
- (2017) Per Strömblad and Bo Malmberg
Ethnic Segregation and Xenophobic Party preference: Exploring the Influence of the Presence of Visible Minorities on Local Electoral Support for the Sweden Democrats.
Volume 38, Issue 4, October 2016
- (2016) Pascal De Decker, Bruno Meeus, and Nick Schuermans
Geographies of Whiteness and Wealth: White, Middle Class Discourses on Segregation and Social Mix in Flanders, Belgium
Volume 37, Issue 4, October 2015
- (2016 – Honorable Mention) Christopher M. Huggins and Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl
Tolerance in the City: The Multilevel Effects of Urban Environments on Permissive Attitudes
Volume 37, Issue 3, August 2015
- (2015) Thomas William Lester
The Role of History in Redistributional Policy Discourse: Evidence from Living Wage Campaigns in Chicago and San Francisco
Volume 36, Issue 4, October 2014
- (2014) Timothy Haney
Off to Market: Neighborhood and Individual Employment Barriers for Women in 21st Century U.S. Cities
Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 35, Issue 3, August 2013
- (2013) Paul Schumaker and Marisa Kelly
Ethics Matter: The Morality and Justice Principles of Elected City Officials and Their Impact on Urban Issues
Volume 34, Issue 3, August 2012
- (2012) Edward G. Goetz
Where Have All the Towers Gone? The Dismantling of Public Housing in U.S. Cities
Volume 33, Issue 3, August 2011
- (2011) Michael B. Katz, Mathew J. Creighton, Daniel Amsterdam, and Merlin Chowkwanyun
Immigration and the New Metropolitan Geography
Volume 32, Issue 5, December 2010
- (2010) Susan Saegert, Desiree Fields and Kimberly Libman
Deflating the Dream: Radical Risk and the Neoliberalization of Homeownership
Volume 31, Issue 3, August 2009
- (2009) Elizabeth Strom
Rethinking the Politics of Downtown Development
Volume 30, Issue 1
- (2008) Scott A. Bollens, February 2008
Urban Governance at the Nationalist Divide: Coping with Group-Based Claims
Volume 29, Issue 3, August 2007
- (2007) Rebecca Yang and Paul A. Jargowsky
Suburban Development and Economic Segregation in the 1990’s
Volume 28, Issue 3, June 2006
- (2006) Manuel Pastor , Jr.
The Air is Always Cleaner on the Other Side: Race, Space, and Ambient Air Toxic Exposures in California
Volume 27, Issue 2, 2005
- (2005) Ali Modarres
Neighborhood Integration: Temporality and Social Fracture
Volume 26, Issue 3, August 2004
- (2004) Jeffrey Henig
Privatization, Politics, and Urban Services: The Political Behavior of Charter Schools
Volume 25, Issue 1, February 2003
- (2003) R. Allen Hays, Thomas Holyoke, Natalie Lacireno-Paquet, Michele Moser, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and James L. Sadd
Habitat for Humanity: Building Social Capital Through Faith Based Services
Volume 24, Issue 3, Fall 2002