International Editorial Team

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Co-Editors

Yasminah Beebeejaun

Yasminah Beebeejaun

Yasminah Beebeejaun, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK and has held lectureships at University of Manchester and University of the West of England, Bristol. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; the University of Illinois, Chicago; the University of Michigan; and the American Philosophical Society. Yasminah’s teaching and research focuses on public participation and grassroots activism drawing upon interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. Her current research projects include work on public space and ethnic diversity in Europe, provision of cemeteries and crematoria for multi-ethnic groups in the UK, the construction of knowledge within planning decision making, and comparative work on shale gas development in the UK and the US. Her publications have focused on community mobilization, constructions of race and ethnicity in planning, and feminist planning. She is the editor of The Participatory City (jovis, 2016) and has published articles in a range of journals including Environment and Planning C, The Journal of Urban Affairs, Planning Theory and Practice, Urban Studies, and the Community Development Journal. Yasminah was a board member of UAA from 2014 to 2019, serving as vice-chair during 2017 and 2018.

Ali Modarres

Ali Modarres

Ali Modarres, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of Urban Studies, and Assistant Chancellor for Community Partnerships at the University of Washington Tacoma. He specializes in urban planning and public policy and his primary research and publication interests are socio-spatial urban dynamics and the political economy of urban design. He has published in the areas of immigration, race and ethnicity in American cities, social geography, transportation planning, environmental equity, and urban development and public policy. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning for eight years until 2017. Prior to that, he served as the Book Review Editor for the same journal. By the time he stepped down in 2017, the journal had achieved an impressive annual submission rate and an impact factor exceeding 2.5, making Cities the second highest-ranking urban planning/urban studies journal in the world. Ali is a long-term member of the Urban Affairs Association, a former UAA Board member, and winner of two best paper awards from the Journal of Urban Affairs, both of which focused on issues of race and ethnicity in American cities.

Associate Editor

Andrew Greenlee

Andrew Greelee

Andrew J. Greenlee Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Andrew’s research lies at the intersection of housing policy, poverty, and the social determinants of health. Andrew’s current research examines a range of urban economic, housing, and health disparities, using interdisciplinary perspectives to trace where and how individual and institutional agency drive outcomes. Andrew has published in areas as diverse as housing policy, urban environmental equity, law, epidemiology, and the institutional climate for diversity. His work appears in a range of journals including Cities, City and Community, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Urban Affairs Review. Andrew is a long time UAA member, served as a member of the Governing Board from to 2017 to 2023, and served as the Association’s Treasurer from 2022-2023.

Managing Editor

Casey Wagner
Casey Wagner
Urban Affairs Association

Editorial Board

Thomas J. Vicino
Thomas J. Vicino
Georgia State University (USA)
Michael Leo Owens
Michael Leo Owens
Emory University (USA)
Jill Gross
Jill Gross
Hunter College (USA)
Mee Kam Ng
Mee Kam Ng
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
Ambe Njoh
Ambe J. Njoh
Editorial Board | University of South Florida (USA)
Nando Sigona
Nando Sigona
University of Birmingham (England)
Ayse Caglar
Ayse Caglar
University of Vienna (Austria)
Regina Freer
Regina Freer
Occidental College (USA)
Roger Keil
Roger Keil
York University (Canada)
Mark Joseph
Mark Joseph
Case Western Reserve University (USA)
Brandi Blessett
Brandi Blessett
University of Minnesota (USA)
Marion Orr
Marion Orr
Brown University (USA)
Robert Collins
Robert Collins
Dillard University (USA)
Rina Ghose
Rina Ghose
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA)
Lucia Capanema-Alvares
Fluminense Federal University (Brazil)
AbdouMaliq Simone
AbdouMaliq Simone
University of Sheffield (England)
Arturo Flores
Arturo Flores
Anahuac University (Mexico)