The Urban Affairs Review (UAR) editorial team is pleased to welcome Scott Minkoff and Yue Zhang as associate editors.
Scott Minkoff is an assistant professor of political science at State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. His research focuses on American local politics, public policy, public goods, and political engagement and strongly emphasizes the use of mapping and spatial statistics. Among other topics, he has published on the spatial and network relationships that exist between cities in metropolitan areas and how they affect budgetary decisions. Scott’s current projects examine the spatial distribution of public goods and socioeconomic attributes within cities and how they affect the development of social capital and political attitudes. He is also working on a book with Anand Sokhey (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Todd Makse (Florida International University) that examines the spatial distribution of political yard signs and political communication in neighborhoods.
Yue Zhang is an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her principal research interest is comparative urban politics and policies with a focus on urban governance, urbanization in developing countries, historic preservation, and globalization. She is the author of The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Her other published work has appeared in UAR, Town Planning Review, and The China Quarterly, among others. She is currently working on a book project comparing the informal housing practice in China, India, and Brazil.
We are also pleased to welcome the following people to our editorial board. We are excited to have the benefit of their wisdom and experiences to help us lead UAR over the next few years.
Katrin B. Anacker is an associate professor at George Mason University’s School of Policy. She is the North American editor of the International Journal of Housing Policy. Her research interests are housing, race, and urban policy and research methods. She obtained her PhD from The Ohio State University.
Claudia N. Avellaneda is an associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University. Her research interests includes public management and governance in developing countries as well as local governments, mayoral leadership, and public policy and comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America.
Colleen Casey is an associate professor of public affairs in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She has a PhD in public policy analysis and administration, and her research focuses on urban and community development policy.
Stefanie Chambers is Charles A. Dana research associate professor of political science at Trinity College. She has published articles on mayoral leadership, urban education, and environmental justice. Her books include Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education (2006) and Immigrant Incorporation in New Destinations: Somalis in the Twin Cities and Columbus (forthcoming).
Els de Graauw is an assistant professor of political science at Baruch College, the City University of New York. Her research centers on the nexus of immigration and immigrant integration, civil society organizations, urban and suburban politics, and public policy.
Richardson Dilworth is a professor of politics and director of the Center for Public Policy at Drexel University. He is the author of the book The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy, and the editor or coeditor of six books, including, most recently, the CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States with Christine Palus.
Benoy Jacob is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado–Denver and serves as the director for the School’s Local Government Center. His research focuses on public finance, intergovernmental relationships, and community cohesion. He also serves on the executive committee for American Society for Public Administration’s (ASPA) Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management.
Joanna Lucio is an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. She conducts research on how urban policies and administration affect the rights of low-income residents in metropolitan regions. Specifically, her work focuses on low-income housing policies and civic engagement among disenfranchised populations.
Rolf Pendall directs the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing & Communities Policy Center. His research interests include housing, land-use planning, metropolitan growth patterns, demographic change, and racial and economic segregation. From 1998 to 2010, he was a professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University.
Ellen Shiau is an assistant professor of political science at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research is on public policy and urban politics, civic participation in local governance, and the relationship between fear and crime using geographic information system (GIS) methods. She is a contributor to the book Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press.
Costas Spirou is a professor and chair of the Department of Government and Sociology at Georgia College & State University. His latest book Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago (with Dennis Judd) will be published by Cornell University Press this fall.
Matthew O. Thomas is a professor of political science at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Reforming New Orleans (2015, Cornell University Press) with Peter Burns and has written numerous journal articles on urban politics, policing, and criminal justice realignment in California.
UAR’s status as a leading outlet for urban research is due in large measure to the commitment of our distinguished editorial board and our associate editors. We are grateful for their many contributions to the journal.
Finally, we are also pleased to announce the launch of the Urban Affairs Forum. The Forum is UAR’s effort to create a website where leading scholars of urban issues can share their research, ideas, and experiences with each other and the broader public. We seek to use UAR’s position as a central actor in the community of urban affairs scholarship—and social science research more broadly—to create a Forum for discussion of research on critical issues. We hope that this website becomes a regular destination for everyone seeking insights on local and regional politics, urban governance, and public policy that are based in the research findings of this community of scholars.
Authors of articles published in UAR will have the opportunity to explain and contextualize their research here, and everyone will be able to come to the site for thoughtful and accessible discussions of research and events. However, the Forum will not just be a place for authors to discuss their research recently published in UAR. We will also be seeking people willing to engage in Forum-based discussions of recently published work as well as roundtables on ideas and issues. We will be previewing in-progress research and linking to (and discussing) articles and posts on other sites that will be interesting to our readership.
We believe this website gives the journal, the people who contribute to it, and anyone who spends time thinking seriously about urban and local issues a critical new outlet to share and discuss ideas and research. Be sure to visit the Urban Affairs Forum regularly and visit UAR’s Facebook page for links to all Forum posts and other UAR news. If you are interested in contributing to the Forum, please contact the Editor, Scott Minkoff, at minkoffs@newpaltz.edu.
Sincerely,
Peter Burns
Co-editor-in-chief, Urban Affairs Review
pburns@loyno.edu
Jered Carr
Co-editor-in-chief, Urban Affairs Review
jbcarr@uic.edu
Annette Steinacker
Co-editor-in-chief, Urban Affairs Review
asteinacker@luc.edu
Antonio Tavares
Co-editor-in-chief, Urban Affairs Review
atavares@eeg.uminho.pt
