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UAA Community News
Dr. Tonni Oberly
18
Feb

Tonni Oberly to Receive the 2025 Janet Smith Emerging Activist Scholar Award

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...
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Dr. Loretta Lees
18
Feb

Loretta Lees to Receive the 2025 Contribution to the Field of Urban Affairs Award

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....
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Dr. Scott Markley
18
Feb

Scott Markley to Receive the 2025 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award

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...
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18
Feb

Zachary Lamb & Lawrence Vale to Receive the 2025 Best Book in the Field of Urban Affairs Award

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...
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Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America.
12
Feb

Forthcoming Book on Police Shootings in Urban America

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...
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Introduction to Housing
06
Feb

Forthcoming in June 2025: Introduction to Housing, third edition (Routledge)

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....
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05
Dec

2025 Governing Board Election Results

The outcome of the 2025 UAA Governing Board Election is provided below. The board term for these individuals will be 2025-2028.
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eaching Social Action Institute - Memphis - March 8 - 9
19
Nov

Teaching Social Action Institute – March 8–9 (National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis)

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....
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Virtual Writing Group
11
Nov

Weekly Virtual Writing Group for Urban Scholars (2024-2025 Calendar)

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.
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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
06
Nov

Research RFP – Racial Wealth Gaps – Kauffman Foundation

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,...
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Community News
05
Nov

Call for Chapter Proposals: The Handbook of Urban Planning and Social Justice

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...
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Community News
23
Oct

Call for Proposals: The Handbook for the Geographies of Race

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...
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18
Oct

Dr. Kathe Newman and Dr. Ben Gerlofs appointed new Book Review Editors for the Journal of Urban Affairs

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...
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Virtual Writing Group
10
Oct

Virtual Writing Group for Urban Scholars (2024-2025 Calendar)

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.
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Creating healthy and sustainable cities
07
Oct

Call for Papers and Proposals – EURA 2025 International Conference (Deadline: 31 October 2024)

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....
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