2016 UAA Annual Conference: Full Schedule

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8:05am PDT

TH8.05.00 General Plenary--Social Justice Challenges and Opportunities in a Bi-National Region: San Diego in Context

Speakers

Nico Calavita

San Diego State University

2016 Activist Scholar Awardee; Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University

Reginald Jones

President & CEO--Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation

Susan Lea Riggs

Acting Director, California State Department of Housing and Community Development

Moderators

Roger Caves

San Diego State University

Thursday March 17, 2016 8:05am - 9:05am PDT
Indigo Ballroom C/D

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Economic Development-Redevelopment-Tourism-Urban Economics-Finance, Globalization-Multi-national Urban Issues, Governance-Intergovernmental Relations-Regionalism-Urban Management, Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development, Land Use-Growth Management-Urban D

8:05am PDT

Thursday - Plenary Session

Thursday March 17, 2016 8:05am - 9:05am PDT
Indigo Ballroom C/D

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

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9:15am PDT

TH9.15.05 Promise of Urban Fellowships for Building Capacity in Distressed Communities—Place Based Policy Lessons From the Field

Urban fellowship programs have been around for decades starting with initial investments from the Ford Foundation in the 1960s, but the academic literature says very little about how fellowship can serve as agents of local policy change or help build community capacity. Based on a 2015 assessment of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Fellowship program (2012-2015), this roundtable will explore the “promise of urban fellowships” as a critical component of federal placed-based urban policy to enhance and expand the capacity of local governments and community based organizations in distressed communities. To frame the discussion SC2 fellowship management and evaluation team members will share the results from their program evaluation and position it within the expanding academic and practitioner interest in federal place based urban policy. They will also feature their extensive research about the emerging field of urban fellowship—a typology of fellowship programs—informed by a November 2014 symposium convened at the Urban Institute that brought together program directors and fellows from other leading fellowship programs (e.g., Detroit Revitalizations Fellows, Washington DC’s Capital Cities Fellows, and CUREx) together with the SC2 fellows. Important questions surfaced during the symposium will help inform the colloquy’s discussion: 1) How do urban fellowship programs define success? 2) What is the structure and process for selecting, placing, and managing the fellows? 3) How do fellows develop support networks and how do local networks support the fellows: 4) How to measure and evaluating the impact and influence of urban fellows? and 5) How to scale and sustain urban fellowship programs over time?

Speakers

Lauren Bulka

Strategic Initiative Coordinator, Virginia Tech - National Capital Region

Graig Donnelly

Director, Detroit Revitalization Fellows, Wayne State University

Kathryn Hexter

Cleveland State University

Gretchen Moore

Executive Director, Downtown Fresno Foundation

I have nearly two decades of diverse experience specializing in community engagement, commercial revitalization, non-profit management and coalition-building. The Downtown Fresno Foundation is dedicated to building a vibrant downtown through placemaking, talent retention/attraction... Read More →

Walter Wright

Program Manager for Economic Inclusion, Cleveland State University

Moderators

Kathryn Hexter

Cleveland State University

Thursday March 17, 2016 9:15am - 10:40am PDT
Indigo 204B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

9:15am PDT

TH9.15.17 Organizing Community Development:“Expertise” & Power in Participatory Research (ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP)

This colloquy will engage in critical dialogues on how researchers engage in and train for participatory research focused on issues of community development and what the impacts are for the researchers and the communities involved. What insights do participatory approaches highlight in the current landscape of community organizing and development? What practices emerge for junior scholars and training programs on community-based work? How does such work ultimately impact the communities themselves, and how do academics navigate these tensions? In this colloquy sponsored by both UAA and URBAN, panelists will highlight innovative methodologies and approaches and emerging insights and lessons. Engaging in reflexivity on their respective projects, panelists will discuss their experiences in the context of specific research projects on gentrification and the financialization of real estate, community development, and housing, and encourage discussion with those in the audience. Through the colloquy, we will unpack “activist” scholarship by deliberating how we might address conflicting goals and interests in the communities we work with. Rachel Brahinsky and Leigh Graham will reflect on their experiences directing, teaching and mentoring in graduate programs that prioritize community-engaged research, especially regarding tensions on how to structure programs and design research that serve community needs amidst academic constraints, and regarding conflicting logics and pressures on community engagement within the academy. Emily Rosenman will focus her remarks on the professionalization of mainstream community development networks, the resulting kinds of research most sanctioned and funded by these networks, and how scholars might better engage the sorts of more “activist” stakeholders and research sidelined by such networks. Ben Teresa will discuss how community organizations in New York City use innovative research methods that in the process of producing new knowledge also counter hegemonic real estate investment narratives and practices, and how researchers, policy makers, and other activists engage with these research tools.

Speakers

Leigh Graham, John Jay College, CUNY

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Rachel Brahinsky, University of San Francisco

Assistant Professor, Urban Affairs, University of San Francisco

Emily Rosenman

University of British Columbia

Benjamin Teresa

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Moderators

Benjamin Teresa

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Thursday March 17, 2016 9:15am - 10:40am PDT
Aqua Salon E

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Activist Scholarship, Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

11:00am PDT

TH11.00.06 Theorizing Housing: What is the State of the Art?

“A central problem of much of housing studies is that it retains a myopic and narrow focus on housing policy and housing markets, and neglects broader issues. Housing studies is still far too isolated from debates and theories in the other social sciences and what is needed now is further integration into these.” Jim Kemeny, 1992. “Can we theorize about housing? If so, why is it that it is seldom attempted? There is an overly deprecatory quality to theorizing on housing, an almost apologetic sense that housing is not substantive enough for theory. Housing, it is argued, is not an academic discipline, lacking its own concepts and methodologies. We therefore cannot theorize from housing phenomena, but only bring existing social theories to bear on these phenomena.” Peter King, 2009. To help stimulate the application of theory to housing research, the journal Housing, Theory and Society was launched 31 years ago (first as Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research). This colloquy focuses on the current state of housing theory. We will also consider the distinction Kemeny and King make above; the former arguing that researchers need to engage with and bring social theory into the housing field while the latter considers how, if housing is a unique phenomenon, then it might need theory making in its own right. While seemingly opposed, the distinction here is more one of emphasis, providing different opportunities for theorizing housing. The speakers – some past and present editors of Housing, Theory and Society – will discuss past efforts to theorize housing and current opportunities and challenges given the role housing plays in shaping life outcomes, global markets, human rights and spatial inequality among other things. We will look at issues in Europe, the UK and the US including immigration, refuge, security, homelessness, social housing, ownership/tenure and supported housing.

Speakers

Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois Chicago

David Clapham

University of Reading

James Fraser

Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University

http://jamescfraser.com/

Hannu Ruonavaara

Professor of Sociology, University of Turku, Finland

Theory and housing studies; neighbour relations; housing policy; comparative historical analysis. I am also the editor of Housing, Theory and Society, the only housing studies journal focusing on theory, published by Taylor & Francis.

Moderators

Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois Chicago

Thursday March 17, 2016 11:00am - 12:25pm PDT
Indigo 204A

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

11:00am PDT

TH11.00.10 Movements for Racial Justice In Urban Communities and Activist Scholars (ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP SESSION)

There are racial justice movements in every area of urban affairs, and scholars are present within these movements as both participants and analysts. Movements that oppose police violence, urban school district take-overs, profit-driven education and prison policies, and gentrification all find scholars involved both as participants and as sources of data and analysis. How do we assess the potential for racially just solutions? And how do scholar-activists see the effects of their participation? Kimberly Mayfield Lynch, Fred Ellis, and Kitty Kelly Epstein have both led and studied movements to transform aspects of the City of Oakland. In particular, they have campaigned against school district take-over, against barriers to the employment of African-Americans and Latinos in teaching and other fields; and against a political machine which threatened to dominate this historically activist city. A number of these campaigns have been relatively successful. Keith Benson is a high school teacher in Camden, New Jersey, a majority African-American city, and a graduate student at Rutgers University. He is both studying and acting on neoliberal practices in urban development and education reform. Stephen Danley, a professor at Rutgers University researches how policy makers and residents in Camden see the decisions that are made on education reform, public safety, police governance, and tax credits. Donna Hunter, a lecturer at Stanford University has examined, along with her colleague, Emily Polk, the contrasting responses of academia to two different movements, Black Lives Matter and Occupy. Panelists will briefly present the most interesting aspects of their work and then lead colloquy participants in a discussion of implications, contrasting examples, and future directions for activist scholarship on movements for racial justice.

Speakers

Stephen Danley

Rutgers University

William (Fred) Ellis

Holy Names University

Dr. Ellis was born the second son to a family enmeshed in the U.S. share-cropping system in an agricultural region of Georgia. He graduated from one of the most prestigious of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Morehouse College, and participated in the Southern Civil Rights... Read More →

Kitty Kelly Epstein

Professor, Holy Names University and Fielding Graduate University

In 2013 Kitty Kelly Epstein was honored with the Activist Scholar Award at the national conference of the Urban Affairs Association. This was based on her work in Oakland, California where she led an innovation in democracy that consisted of 41 groups comprised of 800 people whose... Read More →

Kimberly Mayfield Lynch, Holy Names University

Dean- School of Education, Holy Names Univeristy

Kimberly Mayfield is an Associate Professor and Dean of the School of Education at Holy Names University. She received her doctorate in Learning and Instruction from the University of San Francisco. Her research interests and activism include creating a permanent diverse teaching... Read More →

Keith Benson, Rutgers University

President, Camden Education Association

Donna Hunter, Stanford University

Stanford University

Moderators

Kitty Kelly Epstein

Professor, Holy Names University and Fielding Graduate University

Thursday March 17, 2016 11:00am - 12:25pm PDT
Aqua Salon E

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Activist Scholarship, Race-Ethnicity-Gender-Diversity

11:00am PDT

TH11.00.14 Community Based Research - Defining and Designing a Response to Coercive Sexual Environments

This session will focus on using a community-based research approach as a method for better understanding new public health concerns and other public policy challenges. The Urban Institute and University of California San Diego will describe their joint efforts in defining a new public health concept – coercive sexual environments (CSE) – and designing and testing an intervention in response. Dr. Sue Popkin will provide insights on how she better defined the problem using both quantitative and qualitative information from various research projects, and then developed a new validated scale to measure community levels of CSE. Dr. Jay Silverman will review the public health implications of exposure to CSE for adolescent girls, including vulnerability to a range of forms of gender-based violence (partner violence, sexual assault, sexual exploitation), adolescent pregnancy, and HIV. He will also discussed the limitations of school-based programming and the need for ‘place-based’ initiatives to address such these issues, using Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health and Safety (PASS) that includes complementary interventions for adolescent boys, girls and their adult care givers as an example. Elsa Falkenburger will share lessons learned from several of the community-based research methods used as part of the PASS project –building trust, sharing and interpreting data collaboratively with the community, and training community members to implement the intervention to improve service delivery and sustainability. The moderator will engage any willing colloquy participants to share their questions, experiences, and suggestions throughout the session.

Speakers

Elsa Falkenburger, Urban Institute

Urban Institute

Susan Popkin

Director, Program on Neighbhorhoods and Youth Development, Urban Institute

Susan J. Popkin is both Director of The Urban Institute’s Program on Neighborhoods and Youth Development and a Senior Fellow in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center. A nationally-recognized expert on public and assisted housing, Dr. Popkin directs a research program... Read More →

Jay Silverman

University of California San Diego

Moderators

Elsa Falkenburger, Urban Institute

Urban Institute

Thursday March 17, 2016 11:00am - 12:25pm PDT
Aqua 313

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Health and urban populations-communities

11:00am PDT

TH11.00.16 Boom, Bust and Beyond: Understanding the Economic, Governance and Planning Impacts of Shale Gas Drilling Across Regions

Boom-bust dynamics in the unconventional gas industry are already evident in many regions across the U.S. Technological changes in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing enabled development of the industry in new areas previously too difficult and unprofitable for gas extraction. Production surged in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but more recently has slowed with lower gas prices. The impacts of this cycle are widespread. They are certainly felt on regional economic development, but also on other aspects of planning, governance and regulation. This colloquy will focus on the interrelated impacts of shale gas drilling across different shale plays in the U.S. as the industry affects local and state governments. Speakers will address economic impact changes, planning developments, and effects on governance and regulation. We will discuss not only what has been done in different cases but what lies ahead in yet another boom-bust cycle of this (relatively new) resource extraction economy.

Speakers

Teresa Cordova

Director, University of Illinois at Chicago/Great Cities Institute

Carolyn Loh

Wayne State University

Sabina Deitrick, University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

Sabina Deitrick, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Director of Urban and Regional Analysis program at the University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on issues... Read More →

Andrew Thomas

Cleveland State University

Iryna Lendel, Cleveland State University

Assistant Director, Center for Economic Development, Cleveland State University

Moderators

Sabina Deitrick, University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

Thursday March 17, 2016 11:00am - 12:25pm PDT
Aqua Salon D

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Economic Development-Redevelopment-Tourism-Urban Economics-Finance

11:00am PDT

TH11.00.21 Journal Publishing: What Editors Think You Should Know

Experienced editors from major publishing companies explain the basic guidelines for preparing and submitting manuscripts, and proven strategies for potential authors. Learn to avoid common mistakes, and increase the likelihood of finding the most appropriate journal for your research.

Fiona Counsell, Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Kay Tancock, Elsevier Publishing
Patrick McGinty, SAGE Publishing

Speakers

Fiona Counsell

Managing Editor, Routledge | Taylor & Francis

Looking forward to UAA 2016! Delegates are most welcome to talk to me about publishing, particularly journal publishing. Happy to discuss getting published, the journal process, marketing your research and yourself, social media, digital media, Open Access and more.

Patrick McGinty

Kay Tancock

Publisher - Geography, Planning & Development, Elsevier Ltd.

Kay Tancock is a Publisher of Geography, Planning and Development journals at Elsevier in Oxford, UK. She manages a portfolio of 20 academic journals in this disciplinary field. Kay will be running a stand in the exhibitors' area, providing information on many aspects of publishing... Read More →

Moderators

Fiona Counsell

Managing Editor, Routledge | Taylor & Francis

Thursday March 17, 2016 11:00am - 12:25pm PDT
Indigo Ballroom B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions Professional Development Opportunities

1:30pm PDT

TH1.30.06 Critical Appraisal of Don Norris' 'Metropolitan Governance in America'

The panelists will provide their critical appraisals of the contribution of Don Norris' METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE IN AMERICA to the study of this important subject.

Speakers

Donald F. Norris, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Director, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Donald F. Norris (a.k.a. Don – definitely not Donald!) is Director of the School of Public Policy and Director of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His fields of study include: (1) urban affairs broadly but with... Read More →

Richard Feiock

Florida State University

Hal Wolman, George Washington University

George Washington University

Thursday March 17, 2016 1:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
Aqua 310B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Governance-Intergovernmental Relations-Regionalism-Urban Management

1:30pm PDT

TH1.30.09 Surfacing Counternarratives in Racial Justice: Examining Impact and Implications in Community-Based Research (ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP SESSION)

(UAA-SAGE- and URBAN-sponsored colloquy) We propose to examine participatory and community-based research addressing issues of racial (in)justice in the United States. How does such work inform critical theories on how and why racial injustice currently manifests in specific ways? What policy implications and next steps might we glean? What practices might we engage in, to better serve communities? We hope to highlight innovative methodologies and approaches, and emerging insights, in such work. How do state policies currently reify racial hierarchies, and how do those on the ground resist injustice? Panelists will address these questions in the context of research projects on racial inequalities in mass incarceration, deportation, surveillance, and public budgets, and structure remarks in ways to encourage discussion with those in the audience. Beth Baker and Alejandra Marchevsky will reflect upon their research on U.S. deportation and immigrant detention policies, focusing on a collaborative, multi-media project they are developing with immigrant working-class students and an immigrant rights organization in Los Angeles. They will examine how insights and narratives from this project talk back to federal- and state-level mass incarceration and deportation policies. Whitney Richards-Calathes will draw upon her work as a researcher working on restorative Los Angeles and New York, discuss how power inequalities often reproduce traditional definitions of “expertise” in community-based research, and reflect upon the creation of a community-based research center and federal IRB. Cory Greene will draw upon his work with the Morris Justice Project, to examine the “non-negotiables” of community-based research as a tool in social justice, including the importance of radical inclusivity. Celina Su will examine participatory budgeting in New York, to examine how community-based initiatives ironically often reify rather than lessen racial inequalities, especially on education and policing issues, and what practices might be implemented in response. Greg Squires will moderate.

Speakers

Beth Baker-Cristales

California State University-Los Angeles

Celina Su, CUNY Graduate Center

CUNY-Graduate Center

Andrew Greene

Healing Justice Organizer

Cory Greene is a formerly incarcerated co founder and organizer with How Our Lives link Altogether! Cory is currently invested in developing and supporting the development of an inter-generational youth led city-wide Healing Justice Movement.

Alejandra Marchevsky

California State University, Los Angeles

Whitney Richards-Calathes

CUNY-Graduate Center

Whitney works with the YJC coordinating action-based research and supporting organizing work. She is a student that studies alternatives to mass incarceration at The Graduate Center in NYC. She is from the Bronx.

Moderators

Gregory Squires

Professor of Sociology, George Washington University

Thursday March 17, 2016 1:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
Aqua Salon E

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Activist Scholarship, Race-Ethnicity-Gender-Diversity

1:30pm PDT

TH1.30.12 Neoliberalism and Urban Policy/Political Development in the U.S. and U.K.

This roundtable presents an analysis of Timothy Weaver’s new book, Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the U.S. and the U.K., just published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Weaver examines how the ideas and policies of “neoliberalism”— tax cuts, deregulation, slashing the welfare state — shaped urban policy and political development in cities in the U.K. and the U.S., while examining the role cities themselves played in promoting and constructing the neoliberal turn. The book draws on extensive archival research and interviews with key political actors to examine national-level policies, such as enterprise zones—place-based articulations of neoliberal ideas—and places through case studies of Philadelphia and London’s “Docklands.” Weaver argues that politicians like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher targeted urban areas as part of their far broader effort to remake the relationship between the market, state, and citizen. But while neoliberalization occurred in both countries, there is variation in the ways in which neoliberal ideas interacted with institutional frameworks and organized interests. Furthermore, these developments were not limited to a 1980s right-wing effort, but were also advanced by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, whose “third-way” ultimately reinforced the neoliberal ideas and practices, though often by default rather than design. The enduring impact of these shifts is illustrated by President Obama’s recent announcement of “Promise Zones,” which despite appearances are cast in a neoliberal mold.

Speakers

Carolyn Adams

Temple University

Jonathan Davies

Director - Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, De Montfort University

I am Director of the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. See http://cura.our.dmu.ac.uk for further information about the Centre. I am a political sociologist, studying urban governance from a Gramscian point of view.I am about to enter... Read More →

Cedric Johnson, University of Illinois—Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago

Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Timothy Weaver

University of Louisville

Moderators

David Imbroscio

University of Louisville

Thursday March 17, 2016 1:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
Aqua Salon C

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Economic Development-Redevelopment-Tourism-Urban Economics-Finance

1:30pm PDT

TH1.30.14 Opportunities in Emerging Tech Cities

Since the Industrial Revolution, no singular industry has physically altered cities nationwide as significantly as the technology sector. In this tech-dominated era, traditional urban planning is not equipped to react to and sustain constantly changing tech-focused environments. As the sector grows, cities must accommodate infrastructure, housing, and transportation necessary to sustain the growing workforce. This “problem” offers planners an unprecedented opportunity to diverge from long-term master plans of traditional planning, and embrace the dynamic planning required for the twenty-first century. Broadly, technology and innovation coupled with planning and development can be directly utilized to cater to citizens’ constantly changing needs in times of prosperity and turmoil. Cities cluster people and resources, which sparks creative forms of citizen-based innovation in technology and their surrounding environment. Specifically, since the public planning process can experience bureaucratic delays or resistance to change, public-private partnerships benefit both sides and allow for the necessary flexibility inherent to entrepreneurial planning. When planners and developers work together, they not only better adapt to shifts in the market, but also identify unique solutions to the challenges and opportunities new tech hubs bring to the built environment. The speakers will discuss major tech cities and ways in which the public sector instigates economic development and value-creation through entrepreneurial planning. Public sector representatives—Kevin Keller, Director of Planning for the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, and Darin Dinsmore, of CrowdBrite—will discuss the public sector’s role in steering development toward citywide goals. Southern California developer Howard Kozloff, Managing Partner of Agora Partners, will discuss ways in which developers work within established public policies to achieve desirable outcomes. Overall, these speakers will emphasize the role of partnerships between planners and developers to capitalize on city-building opportunities while meeting public goals and objectives.

Speakers

Darin Dinsmore

Kevin Keller

Los Angeles Mayor's Office of Economic Development

Howard Kozloff

Agora Partners

Moderators

Howard Kozloff

Agora Partners

Thursday March 17, 2016 1:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
Aqua Salon A/B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Land Use-Growth Management-Urban Development-Urban Planning

1:30pm PDT

TH1.30.20 Market Logics in Housing Policy and Practice: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Financialization and Privatization

The domination of housing policy by market logic is a central feature of neoliberal urbanism, in theory and practice. But subsumed within the category of ‘market logic’ are diverse processes and frameworks, including privatization (selling or transferring public assets to private ownership) and financialization (the influence of financial logics, actors, and practices in “non-financial” domains). In this colloquy speakers will draw on insights from research in the realm of housing, considering the interrelations and tensions between financialization and privatization through addressing questions like: • Where do privatization and financialization overlap, co-exist, and/or differ? Are they in conflict, and if so how? • What are the spatial and temporal dynamics of financialization and privatization? • What is the role of the state in promoting these logics? • How are these frameworks subject to political contestation? • What research is needed to address these questions, and to expand the inquiry to other urban policy domains? Fields discusses how the state’s privileging of the interests of markets, financial institutions, and investors before and after the 2008 crisis have reinforced and extended financialization into the rental market. Teresa examines how the state manages financialization in privatized affordable housing production as an individualized-tenant legal problem, and how this approach circumscribes and/or provides new routes for collective political action. Khare discusses how the nexus of federal deregulation policy and political influence by an elite governing coalition coalesced to advance the privatization and financialization of Chicago’s public housing in the post-recession period, though not without organized resistance. Dozier discusses a second-wave property-tax revolt of Southern California’s propertied elites’ use of state property-tax levee policy, which sought to produce affordable housing, but with elite planning subsidized and privatized urban redevelopment. Guimond investigates the work that new flows of capital into low-income housing do to overcome multiple forms of difference and make disinvested areas sites of accumulation.

Speakers

Deshonay Dozier

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Deshonay Dozier is a member of the Black Men and Boys Street PAR collective with the Los Angeles Community Action Network. Her research and activism is on policing, gentrification, and shared equity housing.

Desiree Fields

University of Sheffield

Catherine Guimond

San Francisco Art Institute

Amy Khare

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago

Amy Khare’s research seeks to shape solutions to persistent poverty and structural inequality, with a specific focus on affordable housing, community development, and market-driven policies. Her central line of inquiry examines how urban politics influences the privatization of... Read More →

Benjamin Teresa

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Moderators

Amy Khare

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago

Thursday March 17, 2016 1:30pm - 2:55pm PDT
Indigo Ballroom B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Urban Theory-Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Urban Affairs

3:15pm PDT

TH3.15.00 Activist Scholar Award Recipient Colloquy on Promoting Affordable Housing Through Research and Action

The 2016 recipient of the UAA-SAGE Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award is Nico Calavita, Professor Emeritus, SanDiego State University. Dr. Calavita will discuss his efforts over the years to advance affordable housing in San Diego, the State of California, and urban communities across the globe. Comments will be offered by Ken Grimes, Executive Director of the City Heights Community Development Corporation, and Stephen Russell, Executive DIrector of the San Diego Housing Federation.

Ken Grimes is a former student of Dr. Calavita, who help lead the passage of the San Diego Housing Trust Fund and inclusionary housing legislation. Mr. Grimes holds a Masters in City Planning from San Diego State University and and undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of Bath, England. Stephen Russell has a 20-year history working in community and economic development in the Mid-City region of San Diego. He has been President of the City Heights Community Development Corporation. Prior to joining the San Diego Housing Federation as its Executive Director, Stephen was a member of the firm Platt/Whitelaw Architects, Inc., a firm specializing in sustainable design. Mr. Russell is a 2005 graduate of the NewSchool of Architecture & Design.

Speakers

Nico Calavita

San Diego State University

2016 Activist Scholar Awardee; Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University

Ken Grimes

Stephen Russell

Thursday March 17, 2016 3:15pm - 4:40pm PDT
Aqua Salon E

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Activist Scholarship, Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

3:15pm PDT

TH3.15.09 Understanding Jerusalem's Conflict: A Look at Jerusalem: The Spatial Politics of a Divided Metropolis by Anne B. Shlay and Gillad Rosen, 2015, Polity

This session will discuss the recent book: Jerusalem: The spatial politics of a divided city (Polity, 2015) by Anne B. Shlay and Gillad Rosen. The book explores the political and social struggles around control over space and development in Jerusalem, one of the world’s most important cities and the location of intense struggle. This panel will critically evaluate the contributions of the book. Is the book’s empirical focus on demystifying Jerusalem’s complexity useful in aiding the resolution of entrenched conflict? Does the book help to develop methods for enhancing the peace process? Ultimately, what does this book say about the future of this divided city and the possibility for a negotiated resolution?

Speakers

Rachel Garshick Kleit

Professor, Ohio State University

I'm a researcher and urban planner interested in poverty reduction and the social impacts of housing on the lives of the poor.

Zachary Neal

Michigan State University

Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University

Georgia State University

Elena Vesselinov

Queens College/CUNY

Moderators

Anne B. Shlay

Georgia State University

Thursday March 17, 2016 3:15pm - 4:40pm PDT
Aqua Salon C

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Social Capital-Democracy and Civil Society-Social Theory-Religion and the City

3:15pm PDT

TH3.15.10 The Promise of Two-Generation Strategies: Lessons From the Field

There is increasing interest from policymakers, practitioners, and scholars on the potential for two-generation service models for breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Traditionally, most social service programs focus either on low-income children, e.g. Head Start or school-based interventions, or adults, e.g. employment or training interventions. But decades of research have shown that the results of these single-focus interventions are generally modest and that too many families remain in deep poverty and stuck in chronically disadvantaged, racially segregated and chronically violent communities (Sampson 2012, Sharkey 2013). Two-generation models are designed to address the multidimensional aspects of family poverty and seek to intentionally integrate services for children with services for their parents with the goal of “moving the needle” in longer and better ways for both. While there is a resurgence of interest in two-generation models, there is little evidence about what it takes to implement an effective program, or what such a model looks like on the ground. In particular, we need to know more about what true service integration looks like, why and how it matters for families, and the critical role of the case managers or coaches in ensuring that services are appropriate and mutually-reinforcing. This session will explore these issues drawing on the research findings on the early implementation experiences of three very different two-generation models: The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Family Economic Success-Early Childhood (FES-EC) and Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC) initiatives; The Urban Institute's Housing Opportunities and Services Together (HOST) Demonstration, and The United Way of Santa Fe County. Discussants will offer lessons for the field, drawing on the knowledge and experience of Aspen’s Ascend Initiative, which has taken the lead in promoting two-generation strategies.

Speakers

Mary Bogle

Urban Institute

Rosa Maria Castaneda

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Katherine Freeman

President/CEO, United Way of Santa Fe County

Marjorie Sims

Ascend at The Aspen Institute

Moderators

Marjorie Sims

Ascend at The Aspen Institute

Thursday March 17, 2016 3:15pm - 4:40pm PDT
Aqua 313

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Poverty-Welfare-Income Inequality

3:15pm PDT

TH3.15.20 Re-Thinking Justice in the City in the Wake of Ferguson and Baltimore

The protests that erupted (and are still erupting) in the wake of recent instances of policy brutality and misconduct in Ferguson and Baltimore were motivated by a deep sense of injustice. Putting these protests in context, what do they mean for urban politics and policy? Are they essentially a replay of the protests of the Sixties? Did the victories of the civil rights movement make any difference? Is racism as bad as ever? Or are there new spatial and economic inequalities driving events today? How can leaders respond to these movements? Are the new movements for urban justice unique to the United States or is this a global movement? The colloquy includes a speaker from St. Louis, as well as speakers who have studied social movements around the United States and in other countries.

Speakers

Henry Taylor, University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo

Jill Gross, Hunter College CUNY

Hunter College

Cathy Schneider

American University

Todd Swanstrom

Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Po, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Michael Owens, Emory University

Emory University

Moderators

Todd Swanstrom

Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Po, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Thursday March 17, 2016 3:15pm - 4:40pm PDT
Indigo Ballroom B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Urban Politics-Elections-Citizen Participation

8:05am PDT

FR8.05.01 Remembering David W. Bartelt, 1944-2015

We will remember and celebrate the life and work of David Bartelt, a respected scholar, teacher, mentor, and friend to many in the Urban Affairs Association. David was well known for his contributions to scholarship on cities, particularly in the areas of housing policy, neighborhood development and regional and community indicators. He was a co-director of the Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project and a representative to the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, headquartered at the Urban Institute. All are welcome to attend and share their memories and thoughts of David.

Sabina Deitrick, University of Pittsburgh (Moderator)
Claudia Coulton, Case Western Reserve
David Elesh, Temple University
Barbara Ferman, Temple University
Dennis Keating, Cleveland State University
Leslie Martin, University of Mary Washington
Michael Rich, Emory University
Greg Squires, George Washington University
Carolyn Adams, Temple University

Speakers

Carolyn Adams

Temple University

Claudia Coulton

Case Western Reserve University

Barbara Ferman

Professor, Temple University

Born and raised in Brooklyn (which is still the 4th largest city!), I had an early education about urban areas that was shaped by some very practical activities – turning empty lots into playgrounds, keeping the hand ball court for hours, dodging traffic, and learning the subway... Read More →

William Dennis Keating

Emeritus Professor, Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University

Housing and Community Development

Leslie Martin

University of Mary Washington

Michael Rich

Emory University

Gregory Squires

Professor of Sociology, George Washington University

David Elesh, Temple University

Temple University

Moderators

Sabina Deitrick, University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

Friday March 18, 2016 8:05am - 9:30am PDT
Aqua 311B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Professional Development-The Field of Urban Affairs

8:05am PDT

FR8.05.05 HUD’s New “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) Rule: Revolution or Rehash?

This colloquy will discuss various aspects of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s formulation and implementation of its new Affirmative Furthering Fair Housing rule, issued in 2015. The rule has stirred a great deal of attention, especially with regard to its potential for encouraging state and local governments to pay more attention to the fair housing aspects of their housing and community development efforts. With renewed attention on economic and racial segregation and its effects, the rule has received even more attention than it might have otherwise. Previous efforts to strengthen HUD’s role in encouraging local governments to further fair housing have often met with great political resistance. Will the current effort meet the same obstacles? Potential discussion questions include: • What does it mean to “affirmatively further fair housing”? What do the regulations suggest? How clear are they? Are they effectively written? • What added value do the new AFFH mapping tools bring to the AFFH process? Will new data and new mapping tools add major value to the process? Will they fundamentally change the process? • How will states or localities actually measure their AFFH efforts/progress? Will they use some sort of standardized measures or indicators? How should local or state efforts be measured? • How much direction should or will HUD give as the process unfolds? Will HUD simply be a data provider or will it (help) develop measures? • How realistic is it for the new rules to actually impact fair housing actions? Will they make any difference? Will AFFH just revert back into the “old” AI process? • Will HUD add teeth the process in terms of actually withholding HUD funding from governments making insufficient process in AFFH?

Speakers

Michael Lens, University of California, Los Angeles

Associate Professor, UCLA

Dan Immergluck

Professor, Georgia State University

housing, neighborhoods, gentrification, segregation, housing finance, community development

Alex Schwartz,The New School

Professor, The New School

Moderators

Dan Immergluck

Professor, Georgia State University

housing, neighborhoods, gentrification, segregation, housing finance, community development

Friday March 18, 2016 8:05am - 9:30am PDT
Indigo Ballroom B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

8:05am PDT

FR8.05.11 Who Speaks for Justice? Raising our Voices in the Noise of Hegemony

My country. My country. T'is of thee I sing. Country still unborn Sweet land yet to be Four panelists will discuss their out-reach to specific communities to break the boundaries in this country between the academic world and the lives of children, parents, and families caught in a vise of inferior schools and oppressive public policies. Panelists will tell theirs and the community’s stories in creating networks that challenge the status-quo of failing institutions. While telling the narratives of small victories rising from those challenges, we will engage the audience in conversations that broaden the context of how we gather together to transform ourselves and our academic communities to better serve our cities. Conscious of the joy amidst the angst in the struggle against hegemony, we offer this panel discussion as an enticement to explore each other’s stories about our battles to be free, as researchers, teachers, learners, citizens. How do we step outside the lines of privilege that we may occupy, while seeking to extricate ourselves from the scholastic shackles that we wear? As a counter to our professional privilege, how do we begin to listen not just to persons with national reputations in circles of justice, but also to youth, friends, and strangers in diverse communities? How do we invite and investigate their lessons, challenges, joys, triumphs, questions? And in sharing those explorations, can we discover what sustains us “from the inside when all else falls away.” But, beyond that, can this process help us to determine together “. . . if we can get up, after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed [and teach] the children” (Oriah) in our communities, in our schools, and in this “country still unborn.”

Speakers

Maria Lovett

Florida International University

"Dr. Maria Lovett is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Florida International University and former Director of the Education Effect. The Education Effect is FIU’s university-affiliated community school partnership to support educational achievement in the Liberty... Read More →

Ojohari Moses

The Young People's Project

Joan Wynne

Visiting Associate Professor, The Algebra Project

I'm passionate about teaching, children, my Sun-Daughter, husband, Mama2 daughters, family, friends and our small planet earth. I'm also committed to ridding schools of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. I love writing and research and I'm passionate about the work of the Algebra... Read More →

Moderators

Joan Wynne

Visiting Associate Professor, The Algebra Project

Friday March 18, 2016 8:05am - 9:30am PDT
Aqua 310B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Educational Policy in Urban Contexts-Educational Institutions & Urban Inequalities

8:05am PDT

FR8.05.12 What Are Book Editors Looking For? Ask Them!

Senior editors from top publishers talk candidly about book publishing for academic authors. Unique opportunity to ask questions of knowledgeable and experienced book editors.

Michael McGandy, Cornell University Press (moderator)
Douglas Hildebrand, University of Toronto Press
Fredric Nachbaur, Fordham University Press
Juliana Pitanguy, Springer Publishing
Nicole Solano, Routledge/Taylor & Francis

Speakers

Douglas Hildebrand

Director & Publisher, University of Alberta Press

Michael McGandy

Senior Editor, Cornell University Press

Michael McGandy acquires books in urban history with a focus on New York City and New York State. Follow Michael on Twitter @michaelmcgandy

Fredric Nachbaur

Director, Fordham University Press

As publisher of the Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies, I am searching for authors in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Sociology, and Urban Studies and who can write for both academic and informed lay audiences. Our objective is... Read More →

Juliana Pitanguy

Springer Publishing

My name is Juliana Pitanguy and I am Associate Editor at Springer in the Netherlands. I develop the urban studies and urban geography program, inviting interest in publications and encouraging participation.

Nicole Solano

Senior Editor, Routledge | Taylor & Francis

I'm the senior editor for the planning and urban design list at Routledge. In particular, I'm looking for book projects that focus on issues of social justice and equity, affordable housing, service learning in planning and urban design, and cutting-edge research. I would welcome... Read More →

Moderators

Michael McGandy

Senior Editor, Cornell University Press

Michael McGandy acquires books in urban history with a focus on New York City and New York State. Follow Michael on Twitter @michaelmcgandy

Panel Packet pdf

Friday March 18, 2016 8:05am - 9:30am PDT
Aqua Salon A/B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Professional Development-The Field of Urban Affairs

8:05am PDT

FR8.05.20 Publishing in Urban Affairs Journals: Editors' Perspectives

This colloquy is organized by the editors of the Journal of Urban Affairs. The panelists are editors from the Journal of Urban Affairs and Urban Affairs Review and they will discuss “how to” and “what not to do” to publish successfully in urban affairs journals. The panel will also discuss the importance and the role of reviewers and how to be a good reviewer.

Speakers

Jered Carr

University of Illinois at Chicago

Laura Reese, Michigan State University

Michigan State University

Igor Vojnovic

Michigan State University

Moderators

Laura Reese, Michigan State University

Michigan State University

Friday March 18, 2016 8:05am - 9:30am PDT
Aqua Salon E

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions Professional Development Opportunities

Filter by Topic Professional Development-The Field of Urban Affairs

10:30am PDT

FR10.30.05 The Fair Housing / Community Development Debate

Fair housing advocates frequently criticize the placement of subsidized and affordable housing in disadvantaged neighborhoods. This is considered by such advocates as reinforcing patterns of segregation and concentrated poverty. Fair housing advocates are suspicious of such practices even when they are characterized as part of larger revitalization strategies. Some in the movement have even taken to calling community developers a “poverty housing industry.” This stance puts them at odds with community development practitioners who see affordable and better quality housing as an important need in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and as a legitimate policy objective in such neighborhoods. Although this tension has always been a part of affordable housing policy, the debate has heightened over the past 10 years. Several national summits have occurred to attempt to bring fair housing advocates and community development practitioners together to resolve these issues (to little avail). Several academic journal articles, blogs, on-line articles, and national media pieces have considered this question, as well. This colloquy brings together four experts on the issue. Our presentations will examine this debate and the various policy and normative elements that underpin the two arguments. We will describe and analyze the points of opposition and agreement. Finally, the two positions will be examined in light of changing demographic patterns in American cities, and the recent Supreme Court ruling on disparate impact, and recent HUD regulations related to Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.

Speakers

Elizabeth Mueller, University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas

Karen Chapple

University of California,Berkeley

David Imbroscio

University of Louisville

Edward Goetz, University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

Moderators

Edward Goetz, University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

Friday March 18, 2016 10:30am - 11:55am PDT
Indigo 204B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

10:30am PDT

FR10.30.11 Municipal-University Partnerships for Sustainable Communities- Lessons From the Sage Project at San Diego State University

The Sage Project is a partnership between San Diego State University (SDSU) and a local government in the San Diego region. Students, through their course work, engage in meaningful real-world projects by assisting local governments with partner-directed projects that address their livability and sustainability goals. By connecting with high-priority, high-need community projects, SDSU students and faculty generate interest and fresh ideas that create momentum and provide real service to the community. The Sage Project is part of the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities (EPIC) Network, and is based on the highly successful and award winning Sustainable City Year Program at the University of Oregon. Like the project in Oregon, the Sage Project at SDSU engages hundreds of students each year who invest thousands of hours assisting communities in the region. During this colloquium, the Director of the Sage project will discuss the origins of the Sage project and the model advanced at several universities nationwide through the EPIC network. Three faculty from the SDSU School of Public Affairs will discuss the applied projects their students engaged in in the City of National City, the region highest density and lowest per-capital income city on the U.S. side of the border. Finally, the Director of Economic Development for the City of National City will discuss the impact this partnership has had on the City, and if and how the City has integrated student recommendations and findings.

Speakers

Bruce Appleyard

San Diego State University

Jessica Barlow

San Diego State University

Shawn Flanigan

San Diego State University

Brad Raulston

City of National City

Moderators

Shawn Flanigan

San Diego State University

Friday March 18, 2016 10:30am - 11:55am PDT
Aqua 305

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Educational Policy in Urban Contexts-Educational Institutions & Urban Inequalities

10:30am PDT

FR10.30.19 A Memorial to the Life and Scholarship of Don Phares

This Colloquy will focus on the contributions long time UAA member of Don Phares (1942-2015) to the Urban Affairs Association, urban scholarship, his university (University of Missouri-St. Louis), the St. Louis region and the profession.

Speakers

Donald F. Norris, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Director, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Mark Rosentraub, University of Michigan

University of Michigan

Daniel Monti

Saint louis University

Todd Swanstrom

Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Po, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Moderators

Donald F. Norris, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Director, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Friday March 18, 2016 10:30am - 11:55am PDT
Aqua 311A

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions Professional Development Opportunities

Filter by Topic Professional Development-The Field of Urban Affairs

10:30am PDT

FR10.30.20 Getting Tenure/Promotion -Teaching/Service Strategies (COLLOQUY ORGANIZED BY UAA VICE CHAIR)

The transition to a tenure track position in higher education presents early career scholars with a number of new challenges. Among them is the need to balance research, teaching, and service obligations. Too often, junior faculty members are asked to manage these responsibilities without a great deal of advice from senior faculty. This colloquy was organized to bridge this gap. In it panelists will identify strategies for balancing research, teaching, and service obligations, with a particular focus on teaching and service. They will also discuss pitfalls to avoid in these areas. Topics to be addressed include seeking mentors, the use of technology, peer and student teaching evaluations, course preparations, various types of service (professional, university, departmental, and community), and administrative responsibilities.

Speakers

Robert Silverman, University at Buffalo

Professor, University at Buffalo

Rob Silverman's research focuses on the non-profit sector, the role of community-based organizations in urban neighborhoods, education reform, and inequality in inner city housing markets. His current research projects include studies of non-profit finance and advocacy,school reform,shrinking... Read More →

Henry Taylor, University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo

Barbara Ferman

Professor, Temple University

Nicole Ruggiano

Florida International University

Joan Wesley, Jackson State University

Jackson State University

Moderators

Robert Silverman, University at Buffalo

Professor, University at Buffalo

Friday March 18, 2016 10:30am - 11:55am PDT
Aqua 311B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions Professional Development Opportunities

Filter by Topic Professional Development-The Field of Urban Affairs

1:45pm PDT

FR1.45.05 Authors Meet Critics: Chaskin and Joseph's Integrating the Inner City

Three leading urban scholars from a mix of disciplines will provide their reflections on the 2015 book Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation by Robert Chaskin and Mark Joseph. Book description: For many years Chicago’s looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment—via the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation—has been perhaps the most startling change in the city’s urban landscape in the last twenty years. The Plan, which reflects a broader policy effort to remake public housing in cities across the country, seeks to deconcentrate poverty by transforming high-poverty public housing complexes into mixed-income developments and thereby integrating once-isolated public housing residents into the social and economic fabric of the city. But is the Plan an ambitious example of urban regeneration or a not-so-veiled effort at gentrification? In the most thorough examination of mixed-income public housing redevelopment to date, Chaskin and Joseph draw on five years of field research, in-depth interviews, and volumes of data to demonstrate that while considerable progress has been made in transforming the complexes physically, the integrationist goals of the policy have not been met. They provide a highly textured investigation into what it takes to design, finance, build, and populate a mixed-income development, and they illuminate the many challenges and limitations of the policy as a solution to urban poverty. Chaskin and Joseph’s findings raise concerns about the increased privatization of housing for the poor while providing a wide range of recommendations for a better way forward.

Speakers

Raphael Bostic

University of Southern California

Robert Chaskin, The University of Chicago

The University of Chicago

Lynne Manzo

University of Washington

Susan Saegert

City University of New York

Moderators

Robert Chaskin, The University of Chicago

The University of Chicago

Friday March 18, 2016 1:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Indigo 204B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

1:45pm PDT

FR1.45.12 The Intersection of Education and Social Justice: Mapping the Research and Advocacy Fields (ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP SESSION)

Over the past twenty years, neoliberal school reforms have gained increasing momentum across the United States, emphasizing school choice, market discipline, standardized testing, high-stakes evaluation, privatized management, and the reframing of public education as a site for capital investment. These reforms intersect with cities and communities in complex ways. Critics argue that neoliberal reforms exacerbate educational inequalities and can have dramatically differential consequences for low-income and wealthier communities. Understanding the intersections between these reform strategies and questions of social justice, community development, and urban policy requires interdisciplinary engagement that bridges the confines of traditional academic disciplines. Increasingly, scholars of psychology, education, politics, sociology, urban studies, economics, and planning, among others, are examining the broader impacts of these neoliberal reforms, particularly on our most vulnerable communities. UAA, which brings together interdisciplinary scholars interested in issues of social justice and urban policy, is the perfect venue for that conversation to take place. This colloquy will enable UAA participants to map the research questions at the intersection of neoliberal school reforms, social and economic justice, community development and urban policy and to explore how that research can be connected to policy advocacy and local activism. Participants will discuss their research and/or research that they are familiar with; collectively frame the research questions that emerge; explore the different methodologies employed; and begin to connect the dots across research areas. We will then explore how this research can be connected to policy advocacy and local activism work. The overall goals are to increase the knowledge base within the UAA of who is doing education related work, create networks among these researchers, and, hopefully, seed collaborative projects. This colloquy is designed for UAA participants who are doing, or thinking about doing, research on the issues above or any educational issues that intersect with social justice considerations.

Speakers

Barbara Ferman

Professor, Temple University

Ryan M. Good

Part-Time Lecturer, Rutgers University

I hold a Ph.D. in Planning and Public Policy from the Bloustein School at Rutgers University. My interests lie in the areas of community development, place-based organizations, and the politics of neighborhood identity. In my dissertation, I studied how local stakeholders invoked... Read More →

Julia Sass Rubin, Rutgers

Associate Professor, Rutgers

Julia Sass Rubin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and an Associate Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She also is one of the founding members of Save Our Schools... Read More →

Moderators

Julia Sass Rubin, Rutgers

Associate Professor, Rutgers

Friday March 18, 2016 1:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Aqua Salon E

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Activist Scholarship, Educational Policy in Urban Contexts-Educational Institutions & Urban Inequalities

1:45pm PDT

FR1.45.20 Getting Tenure/Promotion —Research/Publication Strategies (COLLOQUY ORGANIZED BY UAA VICE CHAIR)

Conducting research and disseminating results from it are core scholarly activities. To increase their chances of obtaining tenure, new faculty are often encouraged to publish early and often. This colloquy was organized so junior faculty can benefit from the insights of senior scholars about how to develop a research program and navigate the publication process. The colloquy will cover strategies for developing a high quality research program that results in publications. Topics to be discussed include: the scope of publication outlets (journals, books, etc.), the peer review process, the selection of journals to submit manuscripts to, how single-authored and co-authored publications are weighed, and the roles of funded and unfunded research in the early stages of academic careers.

Speakers

Maria Martinez-Cosio

Asst. Vice Provost Faculty Affairs, University of Texas - Arlington

I am interested in faculty development and student success. I am the PI of a $2.6M Department of Education Title V grant aimed at improving the success of transfer students, specifically those from underserved populations. My research is on private foundations engaged in comprehensive... Read More →

Todd Swanstrom

Professor in Community Collaboration and Public Po, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Anna Maria Santiago, Michigan State University

Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University

Michael Owens, Emory University

Emory University

Katrin Anacker, George Mason University

George Mason University

Moderators

Robert Silverman, University at Buffalo

Professor, University at Buffalo

Friday March 18, 2016 1:45pm - 3:10pm PDT
Aqua 311B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions Professional Development Opportunities

Filter by Topic Professional Development-The Field of Urban Affairs

3:40pm PDT

FR3.40.04 Showing of Film: Andrew Young's Making of Modern Atlanta

Speakers

Andrea Young

Georgia State University

Friday March 18, 2016 3:40pm - 5:05pm PDT
Aqua 314

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Historical Perspectives on Cities-Urban Areas

3:40pm PDT

FR3.40.05 Embedded [or In Bed With]? Navigating the Moral Hazards of Being an Activist Housing Researcher (ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP SESSION)

As low-income housing around the world is being transformed, researchers have worked to document and challenge housing policies and practices. Often hired by public agencies, such as housing authorities, researchers become embedded in complex relationships and multiple obligations. This gets tricky...Who is the beneficiary of our research? Can our research make a difference in the lives of low-income people now and in the future? To whom do we feel most obligated in conducting this research? How do we interpret the “public good” in this work? In short, how do we navigate the moral hazards of activist research? This colloquy will examine the ethical dimensions of doing activist research on low-income housing and with the people who live in it, along with the always challenging dynamics of the researcher-agency relationships. We will discuss the practical strategies that have been used to gain access to residents and administrators/stakeholders, and the challenge of “using” the data. Reflecting on our own experiences, we will compare, contrast and debate the use of the feminist “ethic of care” as a suitable framework for understanding the moral dimensions of this research. This framework will also be compared to Rawlsian “ethics of justice.” Gilligan describes the “ethics of care” as: …grounded in voice and relationships, in the importance of everyone having a voice, being listened to carefully (in their own right and on their own terms) and heard with respect. An ethics of care directs our attention to the need for responsiveness in relationships (paying attention, listening, responding) and to the costs of losing connection with oneself or with others. Its logic is inductive, contextual, psychological, rather than deductive or mathematical (http://ethicsofcare.org/care-ethicists/carol-gilligan/). How can this “ethic of care” inform our work and what does it offer that justice cannot? This exploration will raise methodological and moral questions that will benefit from discussion during (and we hope long after) this colloquy.

Speakers

Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois Chicago

Amy Khare

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago

Lynne Manzo

University of Washington

Susan Saegert

City University of New York

Moderators

Amy Khare

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago

Friday March 18, 2016 3:40pm - 5:05pm PDT
Indigo 204A

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Activist Scholarship, Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

3:40pm PDT

FR3.40.10 'Tested'--(A film about educational equity)

FILM SCREENING OF DOCUMENTARY “TESTED"----The gap in opportunities for different races in America remains extreme. Nowhere is this more evident than our nation's top public schools. In New York City, where blacks and Hispanics make up 70% of the city's school-aged population, they represent less than 5% at the city's most elite public high schools. Meanwhile, Asian Americans make up as much as 73%. “Tested" follows a dozen racially and socioeconomically diverse 8th graders as they fight for a seat at one of these schools. Their only way in: to ace a single standardized test. The documentary includes the voices of such education experts as Pedro Noguera and Diane Ravitch as it explores such issues as access to a high-quality public education, affirmative action, and the model-minority myth. Immediately following the film screening, a group of education research discussants and the “Tested” director, Curtis Chin will discuss elements of the film and will respond to questions from the audience. For more info and documentary trailer, go to: www.testedfilm.com.

Curtis Chin, Independent Film Director
Megan Gallagher, The Urban Institute (Moderator)
Vivian Cueto, Florida International University
Sarah Diem, University of Missouri
Wendy Sedlak, Equal Measure

Speakers

Curtis Chin

Independent Filmmaker

Curtis Chin is an independent filmmaker and Visiting Scholar at New York University. He has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the San Diego Asian American Film Foundation, among others. His first documentary, Vincent Who... Read More →

Vivian Cueto

Florida International University

Sarah Diem

University of Missouri

Megan Gallagher

Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute

Wendy Sedlak

Senior Director, Equal Measure

Moderators

Megan Gallagher

Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute

Friday March 18, 2016 3:40pm - 5:05pm PDT
Aqua 313

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Educational Policy in Urban Contexts-Educational Institutions & Urban Inequalities

3:40pm PDT

FR3.40.11 Film Showing--Changing Face of Harlem

Changing Face of Harlem, 60 min. documentary

Told through the personal accounts of residents, business owners, politicians and real estate developers, CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM explores the drastic transformation of this historic neighborhood over a ten year span. The film tackles the pressing issues of class and cultural preservation as the neighborhood struggles to change for the better.

Recognized internationally as "The Black Mecca," the neighborhood of Harlem was overlooked for decades. Longtime residents weathered the storm despite the abundance of negligent landlords and the lack of basic city services. Bank practices of redlining in the 1980s prevented many residents from purchasing historic brownstones within their own blocks.

Recently, however, Harlem has developed into a prosperous neighborhood for commercial and corporate interests that now consider buying property in the area an ideal investment. With this influx of real estate developments, a younger and more affluent group of new residents has move in dramatically growing and changing the population of Harlem.

Harlem residents have a mixed range of opinions about the future of their community. Some are fearful of what lies ahead and look towards the past for the best of its years. Others foresee a brighter future and happier days for a better Harlem. The consensus in the community is a concern and necessity for cultural preservation.

As urban communities of color across the nation face similar struggles, CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM addresses the timely issues of urban renewal, gentrification, and how a community deals with the challenge of maintaining identity while accepting change.

Film will be introduced by its director, Shawn Batey.

Moderators

Shawn Batey (Film Director)

Director/Producer, Red Currant Productions

Shawn Batey, an award-winning filmmaker, has over 15 years experience as a producer, filmmaker, and writer of documentary films and videos. Third World Newsreel is the distributor of Changing Face of Harlem as well as two other of her films: “Hair-Tage”, a cultural documentary... Read More →

Friday March 18, 2016 3:40pm - 5:05pm PDT
Indigo Ballroom B

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Housing-Neighborhoods-Community Development

9:00am PDT

SA9.00.19 Yes, Peut être (Maybe): Opportunities and Challenges in International Research Collaborations

In STEM fields more than 90% of research is conducted through collaborative partnerships, networks and co-authorship. Collaboration arises as single authors are challenged to access expensive equipment, data or face complex questions that require resource sharing or specialized knowledge. In the social sciences, this collaborative imperative is becoming more apparent as researchers partner with practitioners from both the non-profit and the for-profit world to respond to multifaceted social issues. Studies that compare practices across international boundaries and engage researchers and practitioners ultimately require individuals to relate to one another across culture, language, professional practices, and research expectations. Although the benefits of international research teams and networks of experts are clear, collaboration across international boundaries and those that also traverse disciplines and industry, create challenges and pitfalls. Once funding agencies enter into the mix, the relationships between researchers, practitioners, the core organizing team and those on the fringe become more contested. Multi-institutional collaborations can bring together stronger, more intellectually robust teams of researchers but also can create challenges around building effective communication networks that can transcend language and culture. We are engaged in first of its kind collaborative project that engages researchers from Canada, the U.S. and Europe, as well as nonprofit practitioners and funders under the umbrella of multi-year Canadian government grant to compare the role of Canadian foundations to those in the U.S., the UK, France, New Zealand, Italy, and Sweden. The questions we seek to answer include: • How can we develop a structure for collaboration that responds to language and cultural differences? • What are the frameworks needed to develop a common understanding of the research process and outcomes? • Furthermore, how does the team evaluate its collaborative relationships as they impact the project’s research agenda?

Speakers

Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell

University of California San Diego

Nazita Lajevardi

University of California San Diego

James Stauch

Director, Institute for Community Prosperity

James is the Director of the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University. The Institute has developed learning programs in social innovation, the economics of social change and systems thinking. James co-authored a Student's Guide to Mapping a System, produced in... Read More →

Moderators

Maria Martinez-Cosio

Asst. Vice Provost Faculty Affairs, University of Texas - Arlington

Saturday March 19, 2016 9:00am - 10:25am PDT
Aqua Salon F

Colloquies & Plenary Sessions

Filter by Topic Globalization-Multi-national Urban Issues