Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award

You Can Merge Two Goals: A Talk with Scholar-Activist Gregory Squires
Impact
July 31, 2023

You Can Merge Two Goals: A Talk with Scholar-Activist Gregory Squires

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Learning About Cuba Through Cuban Eyes
Recognition
May 23, 2018

Learning About Cuba Through Cuban Eyes

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Reflections of an Activist Scholar: Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
Career
May 8, 2018

Reflections of an Activist Scholar: Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

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Activist-Scholar Award Goes to Economist Samuel Myers Jr.
Recognition
April 13, 2017

Activist-Scholar Award Goes to Economist Samuel Myers Jr.

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Nico Calavita’s Incremental Advance to Scholarly Activism

Nico Calavita’s Incremental Advance to Scholarly Activism

Nico Calavita is, by his own admission, a sort of accidental activist scholar. Now, after a career in which he’s become a recognized expert on the tools and provision of affordable housing, Calavita has been honored with the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award, sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association and SAGE Publishing.

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Five Questions with Scholar/Activist Christine Drennon

Five Questions with Scholar/Activist Christine Drennon

Christine Drennon, a Texas geographer whose youth and professional life have given her a front-row seat to see how access and equality play out in American cities, has received the annual Urban Affairs Association award for a scholar/activist.

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‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

A conversation with Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and a university professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.

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