The following individuals have been selected to receive the Mary Helen Callahan Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Sabina Deitrick (University of Pittsburgh) Dr. Edward Goetz (University of Minnesota) Dr. Jill Simone Gross (Hunter College, City University of New York) Dr. Michael Owens (Emory University) Dr. Daphne Spain (retired from University of Virginia, owner of 2nd Act...Read More
AJ Golio (Tulane University) has been selected to receive the 2025 Best Article in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City Award for his paper ”What makes gentrification ‘white’? Theorizing the mutual construction of whiteness and gentrification in the urban US.” This annual award gives recognition to a paper published in the Journal of...Read More
Dr. Igor Vojnovic (Michigan State University) has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2025 Scott Cummings Distinguished Editorial Service Award. This award was established in April 2021 to highlight the significant contributions made by individuals in service to UAA’s publications. In the past, UAA has established awards that recognize scholarship and multiple...Read More
Dr. Victoria Basolo (University of California, Irvine) has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2025 Scott Cummings Distinguished Editorial Service Award. This award was established in April 2021 to highlight the significant contributions made by individuals in service to UAA’s publications. In the past, UAA has established awards that recognize scholarship and...Read More
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
