Award Recipient Susan E. Clarke (University of Colorado) The Urban Affairs Association (UAA), the international professional association for urban scholars, researchers and public service professionals, convened its 47th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 19-22, 2017. More than 750 participants, representing universities, research institutions, non-profit organizations, and public and private organizations/institutions from around the world...Read More
Award Recipient Elora Lee Raymond (Wayne State University) The Urban Affairs Association (UAA), the international professional association for urban scholars, researchers and public service professionals, convened its 47th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 19-22, 2017. More than 750 participants, representing universities, research institutions, non-profit organizations, and public and private organizations/institutions from around the world...Read More
Award Recipient Anjuli Fahlberg (Northeastern University) The Urban Affairs Association (UAA), the international professional association for urban scholars, researchers and public service professionals, convened its 47th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 19-22, 2017. More than 750 participants, representing universities, research institutions, non-profit organizations, and public and private organizations/institutions from around the world met to discuss...Read More
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
Award Recipient Clarence Stone (George Washington University) Award Committee Assessment Clarence Stone’s work is truly foundational. Virtually everyone in urban political science and in urban studies is at least acquainted with his writing on urban regimes. With regard to teaching, Clarence Stone has been a much loved mentor to several generations of scholars in the...Read More
(Based on articles from the Volume year of 2013) Award Recipient Timothy J. Haney (Mount Royal University) Award Committee Assessment There were many worthy contenders, but the research question, methodology, writing and execution of “Off to Market: Neighborhood and Individual Employment Barriers for Women in 21st Century American Cities” made it a winner across multiple...Read More
Award Recipient Matthew D. Weber (University of Michigan) Award Committee Assessment Mr. Weber is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in Urban and Regional Planning, and he is completing a dissertation entitled “Informal Property Ownership and Shrinking Cities: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options” (under Margaret Dewar (chair), Richard Norton, Martin Murray, and Trina Shanks)....Read More
Award Recipients George Galster (Wayne State University) and Erica Raleigh (Data Driven Detroit). Award Committee Assessment “Neighborhood disinvestment, abandonment and crime dynamics” is an excellent contribution to knowledge on urban processes. Galster and Raleigh provide a comprehensive analysis of a unique dataset, which was recently produced for Detroit on neighborhood decline, vacancies, abandonment and crime....Read More
