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

  The editors of the Journal of Urban Affairs are committed to supporting the development of the next generation of urban scholars. To this end, JUA has participated in the publishing workshop at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association. At this workshop, recent graduates and beginning scholars have the opportunity to learn more...Read More

Since 2012, the Urban Communication Foundation (UCF) has provided scholarships to UAA conference presenters to encourage the participation of scholars who demonstrate interests in urban communication, urban journalism, media studies, urban design, and urban architecture related topics. Recipients of this year’s scholarships are listed below. Read more about UCF and the award Collins, Charles Bonding...Read More

Award Recipients Bruce Nissen (Florida International University) Joan Wynne – Honorable Mention (Florida International University) Award Committee Assessment The award committee reviewed several nominees from the Miami area. However, we were unanimous in selecting Dr. Bruce Nissen for this year’s Activist Scholar Award. We agree with the statements made by his nominators that are cited...Read More

Award Recipients Lawrence J. Vale Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities Sonia Hirt – Honorable Mention Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation Award Committee Assessment From this set of books, we agreed on two that stood out. For honorable mention, we selected Sonia...Read More

Award Recipients George Galster (Wayne State University), Anna Santiago (Case Western Reserve University) and Lisa Stack (Wayne State University) Award Committee Assessment Papers presented at the 2014 UAA Conference in San Antonio, Texas and subsequently submitted to the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) in July 2014, were considered for this award. All submitted papers went...Read More

Award Recipient Amy Khare (University of Chicago) Award Committee Assessment For the 2015 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award, the Committee recommends Amy Turnbull Khare at the University of Chicago. Ms. Khare is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. Program in the School of Social Service Administration, and she is completing a dissertation entitled “Privatization...Read More

(Based on articles from the Volume year of 2013) Award Recipient T. William Lester (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Award Committee Assessment After weeks of careful deliberation, the Best JUA Article 2014 Committee has chosen T. William Lester’s article, “The Role of History in Redistributional Policy Discourse,” (36, Nr. 4, pp. 783-806). Committee members...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