IOC Director Loretta Lees to Receive 2025 Urban Affairs Association “Contribution to the Field of Urban Affairs Award”

The Boston University Initiative on Cities is excited to announce that Director Loretta Lees will receive the 2025 Contribution to the Field of Urban Affairs Award from the Urban Affairs Association (UAA). Director Lees will formally accept this award at the upcoming International Conference on Urban Affairs in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In addition to her leadership as the Director of the IOC and Professor of Sociology at Boston University, this award recognizes Director Lees’s extensive contributions to international urban affairs research in scholarship, public engagement, and education. The UAA’s press release, which awarded Director Lees this prestigious award, provides further details on Director Lees’ accomplishments and the International Conference on Urban Affairs.