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  • 26 Jan 2023 9:11 PM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    Riyadh Region Municipality is delighted to invite you to participate and attend the 19th International Association for the Study of Traditional Environment (IASTE) conference which will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 5-9, 2024 in collaboration with King Saud University and the Ministry of Culture.

    Scholars, professionals, and practitioners in the field of traditional environments are invited to showcase their latest research, projects, and innovations in the field. The conference theme of IASTE 2024 is titled “The Dynamism of Tradition”, where we refer to the adaptability and continuity of tradition to evolve as a legitimate manifestation of the socio-cultural and socioeconomic spheres through space and time.

    For details on the conference theme and submission requirements, please use the following links:

    • IASTE 2024 webpage: https://iaste.org/iaste-2024-riyadh/

    • IASTE 2024 CFA poster: https://iaste.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IASTE-2024-15-jan-edits-HI2.pdf

    • IASTE 2024 Submission link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/1107/submitter

    The conference will provide an excellent opportunity to share knowledge, collaborate with peers, and exchange ideas with experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning, urban studies, sociology, and history.

    Deadline: May 1, 2023


  • 17 Jan 2023 7:51 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    The European Association for Urban History (EAUH) will hold a one-day online symposium on 6 September 2023 focusing on cultural and material exchanges between urban Europe and the wider urban world, extending across all historical periods. Our aim is to contribute to the larger global urban history currently being written by helping to situate European cities, not solely as the locus of post/colonial power but also as sites of exchange. 

    Exchange might include one or more of the following:  

    • Movements of people and goods   
    • Trade flows and relationships  
    • Cultural exchange: foods, street naming, statuary, etc.  
    • Transformation of technologies e.g. sanitation, across urban settings  
    • Architecture and planning: collaborations and influences  
    • The export and import of ideas between urban spaces  

    Above all, we are looking for presentations that stimulate new thinking about the relationship of urban Europe with other parts of the world.  

    KEYNOTE LECTURE: Peter Stabel (Centre for Urban History, Antwerp)  on the comparative and entangled urban history of Latin Europe, the Islamic Worlds and the Byzantine Empire.   

    The conference committee welcomes proposals (max 300 words) from scholars at all career levels, including graduate students, and that address diversity.  For more info, click HERE. 


    Deadline for Submission: 1 April 2023  


    Submit proposals and inquiries to:  

    Simon Gunn sg201@leicester.ac.uk  

    Rosemary Wakeman rwakeman@fordham.edu  

  • 17 Jan 2023 7:39 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    Apply to participate in Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Rust Belt: Co-Creating Regional Humanities Ecosystems, a two-week residential institute for higher education faculty members. This National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project focuses on the importance of regional storytelling in fostering a sense of place. June 4 through June 18, 2023 at Ursuline College in Cleveland, Ohio.

    Click HERE for more info. 

    Deadline: March 3, 2023

  • 16 Dec 2022 9:12 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    The new Environmental Design Archives (EDA) short-term research fellowships, which are open to both junior and senior scholars, will support travel to conduct research on-site at the EDA, located within the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.

    See HERE for more information. 

    Deadline: March 1, 2023

  • 12 Dec 2022 8:31 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    The UHA is pleased to announce new board members coming in the new year! On January 1, 2023, eight new members will join our continuing members on the Board of Directors, bringing with them a range of experiences and expertise.

    As always, we express our deepest gratitude to the outgoing board members who will complete their terms on December 31, 2022. 


    Thank you to the outgoing UHA board members: 

    Harold Bérubé

    Guadalupe García

    Paige Glotzer

    Clayton Howard

    Alejandro Velasco

    Matthew Vitz

    Constanze Weise


    Welcome to the incoming UHA board members: 

    Emiliano Aguilar

    Emiliano Aguilar is a political and labor historian of the United States, specifically the Latina/o Midwest. His manuscript in progress, Building a Latino Machine: Caught Between Corrupt Political Machines and Good Government Reform, explores how the ethnic Mexican and Puerto Rican community of East Chicago, Indiana navigated machine politics in the 20th and 21st centuries to further their inclusion in municipal and union politics. The project further outlines this inclusion’s costs (and paradoxes) for generations of residents and reformers. In grappling for political power, these Latina and Latino residents renegotiated their place within the city, particularly under the threat of urban renewal and later deindustrialization within the rust belt community. Through his research, Emiliano has gained an interest in municipal archives and issues surrounding their transparency and accessibility to communities.

    Taylor Desloge

    Dr. Taylor Desloge is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College. His research and teaching interests span the fields of African American history, environmental history, and urban history, but at the core he is interested in how African Americans defined health and well-being in the context of the industrial city and how those ideas served as a basis for critique and political action. His book project, “The Lost Politics of Urban Blight: Black Health, Black Power and the Making of Modern Urban America, 1877-1940,” explores the long roots of mid-20 th century mass displacement and the many ways in which local, state, and federal policies have appropriated and channeled longstanding black political struggle against Jim Crow, endemic diseases of segregation and exploitation of black neighborhoods towards destructive ends. Alongside his book project, he is currently working in collaboration with his students on a public history project on the impact of the Great Migration on the politics, culture and institutions of New London, CT. A longtime member, his work has appeared in the Journal of Urban History and has been featured at several UHA events.

    Claire Dunning

    Claire Dunning is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is also affiliated with the History Department. Dunning is a historian of the United States in the 20th century, focusing on the histories of poverty, race, governance, and nonprofit organizations in American cities. Her work has been published in the Journal of Urban History, Enterprise & Society, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and reached more popular audiences in The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. She is the author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State (University of Chicago Press, 2022), which traces the local consequences of pursuing a public good through private organizations. At present, she is at work on a new book on philanthropy, race, and housing policy after 1968. Dunning holds a PhD in history from Harvard University and an AB from Dartmouth College. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and previously worked at a community foundation.

    Sandra I. Enríquez

    Sandra I. Enríquez is an Assistant Professor of History and the Director of the Public History Emphasis at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She is a social historian of modern United States history with research and teaching interests in Chicanx and Latinx history, urban history, borderlands, social movements, and public history. Enríquez received her BA and MA from the University of Texas at El Paso and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Her first book ¡El Barrio No Se Vende!: Grassroots Activism and Revitalization in El Paso (under contract with the University of Texas Press), examines how Mexican American tenants organized to save their border neighborhood from the bulldozer while shaping urban policies through their proposed community-controlled grassroots alternatives to top-down revitalization in the 1970s and 1980s. Trained as both an academic and a public historian, Enríquez is interested in connecting students and general audiences to their local and regional histories. She has curated and collaborated on several public history initiatives in Missouri and Texas, including Show Me Missouri, Guadalupe Centers Centennial, and the Civil Rights in Black and Brown. Enríquez was born in Ciudad Juárez and grew up on both sides of the U.S.-México border.

    Georgina Hickey

    Georgina Hickey is a professor of History at the University of Michigan Dearborn, specializing in U.S. Urban and Women’s History.  She is the author of Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940 and a forthcoming book entitled, Breaking the Code: Challenging Gender Segregation in the Twentieth Century Urban United States (University of Texas Press, 2024), as well as articles on women’s access to public space and urban-based activism. Her current research explores the intersection of grassroots movements for social change and electoral politics in post-1967 Detroit through the public life of long-time city council member, activist, and social worker, Maryann Mahaffey.  Hickey teaches courses on urban, social, and cultural history; social movements; and race and gender.  She is affiliate faculty in the Urban and Regional Studies and Women and Gender Studies programs and currently serves as the chair of the Department of Social Sciences.  Off campus, she devotes time to community cooperatives and cycling.  She is an advocate for inclusive communities, transportation systems, and public bathrooms.

    Nancy Kwak

    Nancy Kwak is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and History at UC San Diego. She is the author of  Homeownership for All: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid Post-1945 (University of Chicago Press) and co-editor with Andrew Sandoval-Strausz of Making Cities Global (University of Pennsylvania Press.) She is working on two research projects now, one on global urban informality and the other, on urban agriculture in California. Nancy is particularly interested in working with others to make our professional organizations  more equitable and representative of the places we study.



    Kyle T. Mays

    Kyle T. Mays (he/him) is an Afro-Indigenous (Saginaw Chippewa) scholar in the Departments of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a scholar of urban history and studies, Afro-Indigenous history, and contemporary popular culture. He is the author of three books, including City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) and An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (2021).



    Kevin Mumford

    Kevin Mumford is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His publications include Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis; Newark: A History of Race,Rights, and Riots in America,; Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century; “The Trouble With Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969-1982.” He has also served as Fulbright Senior Scholar, Erfurt Universitait (2011); Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard University (2008); Schomburg Fellow, NYPL/ NEH (2005). His publication awards include Binkely-Stephenson Award (2012), Organization of American Historians; the Audre Lorde Prize (2012), CLGBTH/AHA; Stonewall Honor Prize, ALA; and the Bullough Prize.

  • 08 Dec 2022 8:48 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    Dear Colleagues, 

    We hope this letter finds you in good health and enjoying the impending Holiday Season.  

    We are writing to thank you for your membership and ongoing contributions to the mission and work of the Urban History Association---“to foster connections among the diverse, interdisciplinary field of urban history, for the benefit of its members’ scholarship and professional development, and to disseminate urban-related scholarship to the broadest possible audience.”  

    As we near the close of the current calendar year, we are pleased to report significant progress on all phases of our programs and mission, including plans to host and fund-raise for the 2023 biennial meeting in the city of Pittsburgh under the theme: “Reparations & the Right to the City.”  With rising global interest in issues of injustice, past and present, and movements for various forms of redress, we anticipate significant participation in this conference.  Moreover, in an effort to enhance the transnational reach of the conference, we are forging diverse programmatic collaborations, most notably with the world renowned Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater Archives and Museum in Western Pennsylvania; the Smithsonian Museum affiliated Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh; and the multicity A. W. Mellon Foundation-funded Crafting Democratic Futures Project, housed at the University of Michigan’s global Center for Social Solutions.  

    Thanks to the dynamic and diligent leadership of our staff and officers, the UHA is maintaining and even beginning to expand its range of programs and services to members in the slowly emerging post-pandemic world.  In January 2023, we will provide an update on our progress over the calendar year 2022.  

    None of this important work would be possible without the continuing and dedicated support of our members.  Your membership is simply indispensable to the success of this organization.  We not only hope that you will renew and continue to be part of the UHA community, but that you will also spread the word and help us recruit new members among your network of students, friends, and colleagues.  

    You can renew your membership online by logging on to our website with your email and password at https://www.urbanhistory.org/. Once you are logged in, click on your name to access your member profile and renew your membership. Don't know your password? Reset it here: https://www.urbanhistory.org/Sys/ResetPasswordRequest 


    Again, thanks for joining the UHA.  Should you have any questions about renewing your membership, or about the UHA in general, please don’t hesitate to contact our membership director, Amanda Boston, at amb610@pitt.edu.  

    Sincerely,

    Joe William Trotter, Jr., President and Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, President Elect


  • 28 Nov 2022 10:37 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    The History Department at UNC-Chapel Hill (history.unc.edu) invites applications for this distinguished professorship in global history, beginning 1 July 2023. Click here for more information. 

    Review of applications will begin on 9 December 2022 and will continue until the position is filled.


  • 14 Nov 2022 10:41 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    The Graduate Group in City & Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design welcomes applications from those wishing to complete a PhD in City & Regional Planning with a focus on the history of the built environment.

    The Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design recently launched the Initiative in the History of the Built Environment. The initiative organizes and amplifies existing work at Penn, promotes new scholarship, and supports doctoral students committed to studying history in the fields of city planning, preservation, and design.

    Beginning with the 2022-23 admissions cycle, the Graduate Group in City & Regional Planning enthusiastically welcomes applications from those wishing to complete a PhD in City & Regional Planning with a focus on the history of the built environment. These Fellows in the History of the Built Environment will complete their coursework through targeted offerings in the Departments of City & Regional Planning and History, as well as a broad array of options across the Weitzman School and larger university. Specific course requirements include the regular doctoral colloquium sequence in City & Regional Planning, readings and research seminars in the History of the Built Environment, and courses in the methods and practice of history. These Fellows will receive five years of doctoral fellowship funding.

    Applicants should follow the standard doctoral admissions process at Weitzman School of Design, but be sure to elaborate upon their particular interest in the urban or metropolitan history of the built environment in their research statement. In addition, the submitted writing sample should showcase historical research, ideally based upon primary sources.

    To learn more about the doctoral program in City & Regional Planning at Penn, please see our website. For any questions, or to discuss this opportunity further, feel free to reach out to Eugenie Birch, Graduate Group Chair, or Francesca Russello Ammon, director of the Initiative in the History of the Built Environment.

    Deadline12/15/2022

  • 14 Nov 2022 10:25 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    CFP: Sound, Language & the Making of Urban Space, University of Copenhagen, August 24th and 25th 2023.

    This conference centers on the city, the metropolis, and on sound and language as central elements in the production of urban spaces and communities. The organizers particularly welcome contributions that explore ways in which sonic and linguistic approaches to urban communities, lifestyles and practices can enrich each other.

    For more info click here, and for the full CFP click here

    Paper proposals of up to 300 words plus short bio of up to 100 words to be sent to Jakob Ingemann Parby at jakobp@kk.dk before January 2nd 2023.

  • 14 Nov 2022 10:16 AM | Daniela Sheinin (Administrator)

    The Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) offers a number of awards and fellowships to promote and support vernacular architectural fieldwork and scholarship, as well as the dissemination of research. Prizes are awarded to recognize the contributions to the study of vernacular architecture. Information about applying and past winners can be found on the VAF website at: https://www.vafweb.org/awards.

    The deadline, unless otherwise noted, is February 1, 2023.

    The 2023 awards, prizes and fellowships will be presented at the 44th annual VAF conference in Plymouth, Massachusetts, May 17-20, 2023. 


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