Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability: 2027 Call for Applications Apply by: October 20, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET We are pleased to announce the 2027 call for applications for the Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship. Cornell Atkinson will select up to four ambitious, innovative proposals from early-career scholars whose research demonstrates promise for significant impact in […]
Amy Glasmeier is a professor of economic geography and Regional Planning at DUSP. She is a staff member of LRISA, the lab on regional innovation and spatial analysis. Amy’s research focuses on economic opportunities for communities and individuals by investigating the role of geographic access and the effect of locational accidents on human development.
Dr. Grete Gansauer Assistant Professor, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, USA RSA Board Trustee 2023-2025 RSA Board Early Career Representative (Observer) Co-organizer RSA Research Network on Peripheries and Peripherality (EdgeNet) (2023-2026)
Dayne Walling Doctoral Candidate, Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota, USA Participant in the RSA Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalisms (NOIR) Further information: Former Mayor, City of Flint, Michigan, USA Recent paper: “Governing Infrastructure, Development and Inequality around Deindustrialized US Cities.” Territory, Politics, Governance Special Issue on Water, governance, and the dynamics of […]
Dr. Jennifer Clark Knowlton School Distinguished Professor The Ohio State University, USA Editor-in-Chief, Regional Studies RSA Board Member (Trustee) RSA Executive Committee RSA Journals Committee 2022 RSA Best Book Award: Clark, Jennifer (2020) Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: 978-0231184977 2009 RSA Best Book Award: Christopherson, Susan and […]
Professor John Agnew Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and Italian, University of California, Los Angeles, USA President of the Regional Studies Association, 2021-2024. Founding Editor-in-Chief, Territory, Politics, Governance (2012-2019) Member of Editorial Boards of Territory, Politics, Governance and Regional Studies, Regional Science.
Dr. Joan Fitzgerald Northeastern University, Boston, USA Former Editor in Chief, RSA-Routledge Cities and Regions Book Series Former RSA Board member FeRSA
Dr Jean-Paul Addie Georgia State University Associate Editor, Regional Studies, Regional Science Co-Director (with Michael Glass and Jen Nelles) of the RSA Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR), 2019-2027. NOIR is a community of scholars working at the intersection of infrastructure and regional studies to foster innovative, interdisciplinary, and multi-scalar knowledge of how regional space […]
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, and Head, Sustainability Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA 2015 RSA Travel Grant Recipient Contributor to Regional Studies
Marcello Graziano SUNY at Binghamton, USA
Xuanyi Nie is an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research examines how healthcare […]
Policymakers often rely on familiar indicators such as GDP, employment rates, and education levels to assess regional well-being. Yet these metrics tell only part of the story. Human flourishing, encompassing happiness, health, purpose, virtue, relationships, and financial stability, is increasingly recognized as a vital complement to traditional economic indicators (VanderWeele et. al, 2020). However, existing […]
We are pleased to announce that we will run a special track (i.e., set of research paper panels) at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), taking place from April 29 – May 2, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. The session, titled The City-Region Reimagined: Intersections of Theory, Policy, Practice, and Place, will […]
Clusters are geographically concentrated areas of activity around a certain industry. The central question for modern cluster theory from the perspective of industry dynamics is why firms co-locate in the same space. The classic example is Silicon Valley, where multiple IT companies compete side by side, amidst some of the highest costs in the world. […]
Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study addresses the persistent policy challenge of how to stimulate economic revitalisation in ‘left behind’ rural regions. This comparative, exploratory ethnographic study examines the extent to which locally led entrepreneurial ventures by less-visible social actors (rural women) are contributing […]
Michael R. Glass is an assistant professor in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Working at the intersection of sociology, geography, and regional studies, his primary research is on city-region governance, infrastructure, and innovation. He has published in leading international journals including Regional Studies, Urban Studies, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and […]
As in previous years, the RSA will again have a strong presence at this year’s AAG, which will take place from March 24-28 2025 in Detroit,USA. Publishing Regional Studies Research will focus on publishing, where RSA members and editors will unravel the mysteries in an engaging session around this topic. Publishing Regional Studies Research: from […]
Geographies of Refugee Resettlement and Post-industrial Urban Renewal in Rust Belt Cities Refugees are active agents of urban change. According to the United Nations, 60 percent of the world’s refugees are in cities and as such, cities of today are uniquely positioned to seek solutions that address refugee concerns alongside interrelated urban social justice and […]
Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, place-based policy, and the Foundational Economy in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. Focusing on rural contexts and natural resource production, her research examines sustainability of essential services and infrastructures as both drivers and indicators of spatial inequality, and evaluates […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
It was great to see six sessions at RSA 2023 in Ljubljana as part of a theme on Climate Change, Energy & Environmental Sustainability. Several other sessions were focused on sustainability as well. Many of the papers presented technical analyses of supporting blue or green economy initiatives. While these are much needed, we also need […]
Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]
Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Racial Disparities of the Paycheck Protection Program: Focusing on Structural Differences in Banking Infrastructure This project examines the distributional outcomes of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was implemented by the U.S. federal government to preserve jobs in small businesses in response to the 2020 coronavirus […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. If the American West could be defined by one characteristic, it would be aridity. Water quantity and quality deficiencies perennially frame development controversies across the West– particularly in […]