Angela Marie MacDougall (Battered Women’s Support Services) has been selected to receive the 2025 Community Activist Award. Since the late 1960s, the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) has served as a professional organization for scholars and practitioners seeking to advance social justice and policy equity through timely analyses, and direct support of local residents and advocacy...Read More
Dr. Tonni Oberly (Black Mamas Matter Alliance) has been selected to receive the 2025 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...Read More
Dr. Loretta Lees (Boston University) has been selected to receive the 2025 Contribution to the Field of Urban Affairs Award. This annual award honors an individual whose body of work has contributed to defining the field and furthering the intellectual and professional development of emerging scholars. AWARD COMMITTEE ASSESSMENT We are pleased to recognize Dr....Read More
Dr. Scott Markley (National Zoning Atlas) has been selected to receive the 2025 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. Young...Read More
Dr. Zachary Lamb (University of California, Berkeley) and Dr. Lawrence Vale (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have been selected to receive the 2025 Best Book in the Field of Urban Affairs Award for The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2024). This annual award is given to a...Read More
Community news submitted by: Michael Leo Owens, Emory University Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America. Coauthors: Tom S. Clark, Adam N. Glynn, and Michael Leo Owens (UAA member). Forthcoming June 2025 by Princeton University Press. Description Police shootings in America spark outrage and protest and raise questions about police use of lethal force. Yet...Read More
Community news submitted by: Katrin Anacker, George Mason University Forthcoming in June 2025, published by Routledge: Introduction to Housing, third edition. https://www.routledge.com/Introduction-to-Housing/Anacker-Carswell-Kirby/p/book/9780367465056 Description This foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the United States during and after the COVID-19 pandemic....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
Organized and moderated by the JUA Scholar Development Editors (SDEs), the Virtual Writing Group is a UAA professional development opportunity targeted at graduate students and early-career scholars.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
After an international search, the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kathe Newman (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) and Dr. Ben Gerlofs (University of Hong Kong) as the new Book Review Editors of the Journal of Urban Affairs. The journal, published by Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group, has a global...Read More
Organized and moderated by the JUA Scholar Development Editors (SDEs), the Virtual Writing Group is a UAA professional development opportunity targeted at graduate students and early-career scholars.Read More
