Urban Politics Section Award Recipients
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Dennis Judd Best Book Award
Best Dissertation Award
Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award
The Urban Affairs Review Best Paper Award
Norton Long Career Achievement Award
Susan Clarke Young Scholars' Award
Clarence Stone Scholar Award
Special Award for Best Book on Urban Policy
Special Award
Best Book in Urban Politics within Five Years
The Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year.
| 2023 | Sally A. Nuamah, Northwestern University Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans. Cambridge University Press, 2022 |
| 2022 | Charley Willison, Cornell University Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States. Oxford University Press, 2021 |
| 2021 | Adam Auerbach, American University Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums. Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| 2021 | Honorable Mention Xuefei Ren, Michigan State University Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution. Princeton University Press, 2020. |
| 2021 | Honorable Mention Eleonora Pasotti, University of California, Santa Cruz Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2019 | Daniel T. O’Brien, Northeastern University The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities. Harvard University Press, 2018. |
| 2017 | Veronica Herrera, University of Connecticut Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico. University of Michigan Press. |
| 2016 | Lorrie Frasure-Yokely, University of California, Los Angeles Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs. Cambridge University Press 2015 |
| 2015 | Amy Lerman, University of California, Berkeley Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control. Chicago University Press, 2014 |
| 2015 | Vesla Weaver, Yale University Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control. Chicago University Press, 2014 |
| 2014 | Traci Burch, Northwestern University Trading Democracy for Justice. University of Chicago Press |
| 2014 | Clarissa Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis How Americans Make Race. Cambridge Press |
| 2013 | J. Eric Oliver, University of Chicago Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy. (Princeton University Press, 2012) |
| 2012 | Steven Erie, Vladimir Kogan, Scott MacKenzie Paradise Plundered: Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego (Stanford University Press) |
| 2011 | Zoltan Hajnal, University of California San Diego America's Uneven Democracy: Race, Turnout and Representation in City Politics |
| 2011 | Peter Eisenstadt Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment Integrated Housing |
| 2007 | Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception or Exit |
| 2006 | Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2005) |
| 2006 | Romain Garbaye, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) Getting into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities (Blackwell Publishing, 2005) |
| 2005 | James DeFilippis, CUNY, Baruch College Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital |
| 2004 | Alan Altshuler, Harvard University Co-Authored with David Luberoff, Harvard University, Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution, 2003) |
| 2004 | David Luberoff, Harvard University Co-Authored with Alan Altshuler, Harvard University, Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution, 2003) |
| 2003 | Hank Savitch, University of Louisville Cities in the International Marketplace (Princeton) |
| 2003 | Paul Kantor, Fordham University Cities in the International Marketplace (Princeton) |
| 2002 | Susan Welch, Pennsylvania State University Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City |
| 2002 | Lee Sigelman, George Washington University Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City |
| 2002 | Timothy Bledsoe, Waye State University Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City |
| 2002 | Michael Combs, University of Nebraska Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City |
| 2000 | Jeffrey Henig, The George Washington University The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education |
| 2000 | Richard Hula, Michigan State University The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education |
| 2000 | Desiree Pedescleaux, Spelman College The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education |
| 2000 | Marion Orr, Brown University The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education |
| 1999 | Bruce Wallin, Northeastern University From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities |
| 1998 | Amy Bridges, University of California, San Diego Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton University Press, 1997) |
| 1997 | Rodger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York (Harvard University Press, 1996) |
| 1996 | Eric Monkkonen, University of California, Los Angeles The Local State: Public Money and American Cities (Stanford University Press) |
| 1994 | Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1993) |
| 1994 | Kent Portney, Tufts University The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1993) |
| 1994 | Kenneth Thomson, Tufts University The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Brookings Institution, 1993) |
| 1993 | Richard DeLeon, San Francisco State University Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992) |
| 1992 | Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities |
| 1991 | Michael Davis, Sarah Lawrence College City of Quartz (Verso) |
| 1990 | Clarence Stone, University of Maryland, College Park Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta 1946-1988 (University Press of Kansas) |
| 1989 | Steven Erie, University of California, San Diego Rainbow's End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics 1840-1985 |
| 1988 | Martin Shefter, Cornell University Political Crisis, Fiscal Crisis: |