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Graduate Fellowships
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Post-Doctoral Fellowships
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Study Abroad:
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PhD Programs:
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of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo.
The PhD program in Urban and
Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. The doctoral program offers
diverse research and learning opportunities.
Our graduate students have the
opportunity to engage with several centers and labs that are exploring the
cutting edge of planning scholarship. These include the UB Regional Institute,
Urban Design Project, Center for Urban Studies,
Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Center for Architecture
and Situated Technologies, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab,
Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water (RENEW), and the Global
Health Equity Community of Excellence. These research centers and labs connect
students with faculty with research interests similar to their own and unique
opportunities to pursue focused research at an advanced level. The program also
encourages students to explore other research centers and interdisciplinary
studies across the University at Buffalo, one of the nation's premier centers
for academic excellence and the most comprehensive, research-intensive
university within the 64-campus SUNY system.
Applications are invited from
highly qualified and motivated doctoral candidates interested in pursuing a
career in research and teaching. Selected candidates will be considered for
tuition remission and a competitive stipend. Admitted PhD students may also be
considered for competitive financial awards available through sponsored
research projects. Candidates must have strong analytical and writing skills.
Additional information about the program is available at:
http://ap.buffalo.edu/academics/graduate-degrees/phd.html
Call for Manuscripts and Papers:
Journal of the American Planning Association
Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Anti-Racist Futures: Disrupting Racist Planning Practices
in Workplaces, Institutions, and Communities"
Abstracts due: June 1, 2021
We are in a critical moment in history as demonstrated by the Spring/Summer 2020 nationwide anti-racism
protests, after George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks died in police custody. With increased
public consciousness amidst racial reckoning, it is imperative to document any shifts in state, regional, or
municipal planning and higher education that are occurring to provide practitioners with concrete strategies
on ways to implement anti-racist and decolonial planning practices. The field of planning has the opportunity
to be proactive in valuing diversity and centering racial justice now more than ever. This Special Issue seeks
to push planning scholars, educators, and practitioners to think critically about the field of planning, contend
with the racist origins of the field and profession, disrupt racial inequality, and dismantle current racist,
colonial, and discriminatory planning policies and practices to redress harm experienced by communities of
color and move towards anti-racist futures.
This JAPA Special Issue brings together a collection of articles that look at planning's racist history, current
practices and emerging anti-racist strategies. Papers in this Special Issue will:
● examine urban planning's exclusionary practices through historical perspectives (e.g., reckoning)
insofar as they point toward a future outcome planners can contribute to, (e.g., anti-racist futures)
● explore movements within urban, community, and tribal planning practices to document ongoing
work with Indigenous communities and governments
● critically assess current local and regional plans and policies that utilize truth and reconciliation
commissions or reparations to address racist, "race neutral," or anti-racist policies
● examine grassroots and community efforts that confront racism in planning and efforts to integrate
this work within local, county, and regional agency plans and policies
● explore movements to decolonize curricula and expertise in the planning academe and profession,
institutionalize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within institutions, and anti-racism initiatives
within the Planning Accreditation Board (PAB)
● evaluate anti-racist, decolonial practices and plans in planning workplaces, institutions, and
communities, and
● examine the underrepresentation and persistent discrimination of Black, Indigenous People of Color
(BIPOC) and historically marginalized populations in planning workplaces, institutions, and
communities to provide recommendations for more just and inclusive environments
We especially encourage collaborations between scholars, practitioners, community organizations, and
advocates.
INSTRUCTIONS
Interested authors should submit an abstract to the guest editors: April Jackson, PhD (
[email protected]) and
Anaid Yerena, PhD (
[email protected] ) by June 1, 2021. Abstract: 1,000 words. Please include the phrase "JAPA
Anti-Racist Futures Abstract" in the subject line. Following their review, a subset of authors will be invited by
August 1, 2021, to submit full papers before January 15, 2022, subject to the customary JAPA double-blind peer
review. Final, revised papers will be due by November 15, 2022. The Special Issue editorial team, April Jackson
(Florida State), Anaid Yerena (U Washington Tacoma), Ivis Garcia (U Utah), Benjamin Chrisinger (Oxford), Aujean
Lee (U Oklahoma), Stacy Harwood (U Utah), and Laura Harjo (U Oklahoma) will attend APA in May and ACSP in
October for those interested in discussing potential manuscript topics or serving as reviewers and collaborators
for this special issue.
Award Nominations:
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Position Announcements:
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Urban Affairs Association (UAA)
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