Dear Early Career UAA Members: Would you like to support your fellow early career colleagues and get a free conference registration waiver for the ICUA 2026 Conference in Chicago? UAA is looking for early career discussants to share their experiences navigating career issues as part of our Fall 2025 Early Career Professional Development Webinar entitled:...Read More
Community News submitted by: Deden Rukmana The Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) program at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is delighted to welcome three new faculty members who joined us at the start of the Fall 2025 semester: Dr. Wei Zhai (Associate Professor), Dr. Malini Roy (Assistant Professor), and Dr. Xueyin...Read More
The International Conference on Urban Affairs 2026 is now accepting submissions! Submission Deadline = October 1, 2025 @ 11:59 CDT Call for Participation General Schedule Deadlines Conference Policies Registration Rates Hotel Rates International Attendee InfoRead More
The Scholar Development Editors (SDEs) of the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA), which is sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), will host the UAA Publishing Fellows Program from August 2025 to August 2026. The Publishing Fellows Program is for early career scholars (i.e. doctoral students, untenured assistant professors). The year-long program will include writing and publication workshops, as well...Read More
Submit a manuscript to the Journal of Urban Affairs for a special issue on Immigration and the Metropolis / / / DEADLINES / / / Abstract deadline: August 30, 2025 Manuscript deadline: February 15, 2026 / / / IMMIGRATION & THE METROPOLIS / / / Throughout modern history, immigration has shaped urban spaces by driving...Read More
Community News submitted by: AJ Kim Seeking volunteers: Fellow profs, graduate students, people with interns who have a few hours to commit to project work Description of project: I’ve just created an ICE Detention Center tracker (nationwide) for all active detention sites as of the July 2025 data. By clicking on each point you can...Read More
Community News submitted by: Gregory Squires The recipient of the 2025 American Sociological Association’s Public Understanding of Sociology Award is Dr. Gregory Squires, recognized by both his nominators and the selection committee for his involvement in policy research and a career as a public sociologist that have advanced the public understanding of sociology, sociological research,...Read More
Community News submitted by: Katrin Anacker Just published: Introduction to Housing, third edition (Routledge) www.routledge.com/Introduction-to-Housing/… 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. This third edition delves into the complexities of...Read More
Community News submitted by: Deirdre Oakley “The Impact of Housing Displacement on Quality of Life” Special Issue, Social Sciences. Deadline: November 2025 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/J9ZY21552V Housing displacement is a significant global problem extensively examined across various disciplines, including urban studies, sociology, geography, public policy, and real estate studies. At the heart of this scholarship lies a pattern of...Read More
Community news submitted by: Rasul Mowatt The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environment for Hip-Hop to specifically grow in the geographies of New York City and its boroughs. This book argues it was the political forces of the 1970s...Read More
SAVE THE DATE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AFFAIRS April 29 – May 2, 2026 Marriott Marquis HotelChicago, Illinois + + + + + Abstract submission opens on August 1, 2025. + + + + +/ / / / / Sign up for Conference News to receive updates. / / / / / Photo by Austin Neill on UnsplashRead More
Community news submitted by: Timothy Weaver, University at Albany, SUNY Timothy Weaver’s new book, Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, published by Temple University Press is now out. The book is part of a series, edited by Richardson Dilworth (Drexel), called Political Lessons from American Cities. There will be a panel featuring four books...Read More
Community news submitted by: Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University Oakley’s volume offers a broad, interdisciplinary exploration of migration patterns, policies, and lived experiences across the United States and beyond, shedding light on the social, economic, and political forces that shape movement and belonging. Taking Root? Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Migrations Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2025, ISBN 9798385161799...Read More
Community news submitted by: Magda Maaoui, Harvard University Graduate School of Design Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Magda Maaoui, and Sophia Wedeen co-authored an article in the Journal of Urban Affairs entitled “Rental deserts, segregation, and zoning”. Through the use of novel measures of residential segregation and zoning restrictiveness, they explore the geography of places that say no...Read More
