Applications for a Frontline Editor at Urban Geography
Urban Geography has a Frontline Editor opening, to start on 1 January 2027, taking over from Professor Anne Bonds (UW-Milwaukee). The post is for an initial term of three years.
Please submit applications by Friday 18 September (17 00 pm GMT).
About the Journal
In 1980, Victor H Winston established Urban Geographyin partnership with the Urban Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Routledge/Taylor & Francis (T&F) has published the journal since 2013.
Over four and a half decades, Urban Geography has been at the forefront of urban scholarship. As the urbanization of our planet has deepened and extended, and as some of the older assumptions of urban theory have been questioned, so the intellectual remit of the journal has evolved and expanded. The work we publish, and the editors of the journal, reflect this. An international, peer reviewed journal publishing high quality, innovative and original empirical, methodological and theoretical research, Urban Geography remains, foremost, a geography journal, but one with a record of publishing work from across the social sciences. The Editors of the journal encourage authors to think of the journal for their contributions to understanding the current and future global urban condition.
Urban Geography publishes 10 issues annually, each containing five to seven research manuscripts in addition to book reviews, editorials, and other special features. The submission and review process occurs online through Scholar One.
Please visit https://www.urbangeographyjournal.org/ for additional information.
Job Description
We are seeking a Frontline Editor to join the editorial team at Urban Geography. This is: Kevin Ward (Editor-in-Chief), Nathan McClintock, Sarah Moser and Shaun Teo (Frontline Editors), Nitin Bathla (Debates and Interventions Editor), Yamini Narayanan (Special Issues Editor), Martin Saps (Social Media Editor), Julie Ren (Book Reviews Editor), and Alan Wiig (Urban Pulse Editor).
Editors are involved in the operational and strategic leadership of the journal. Strategically they work as part of the editorial team to deliver the journal’s mission, ensuring it publishes the best of urban geography, working with an inclusive and progressive agenda. The appointed Frontline editor will work collaboratively with the Editor in Chief, Kevin Ward, the editorial team Yellowback, who support the publication of the journal and the publisher, T&F.
Operationally, editors are responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and rendering decisions on manuscript submissions and resubmissions, and attending on-line meetings of the editorial team, which tend to be twice per year. Over the year, a frontline editor will normally process between 40 and 50 submissions and resubmissions.
Candidate Specifications
Applicants should have a record of scholarship in the context of urban geography and related subjects and be actively involved in scholarly networks within the field. They should be able to demonstrate strong organizational and managerial skills, and an understanding of the work done by Urban Geography.
The successful candidate is likely to have some academic editorial experience. They will feel comfortable dealing with a wide range of papers using varied methodologies and focusing on cities in a range of contexts. We are interested in an appointment that complements the backgrounds of existing Frontline Editors (Nathan, Sarah and Shaun), which means in this case we particularly encourage applicants who have a record of researching in, and publishing work on, North America.
T&F provide an annual honorarium to the Frontline Editor.
Application Procedure
We ask applicants for the position to submit a two-page C.V. along with a one-page covering letter, detailing their suitability for the role, by the closing date of Friday 18 September 2026. We will contact applicants for on-line interview by Monday 28 September and we will endeavour to schedule interviews for early October.
To submit your application, please E-Mail your documents to Kevin Ward (kward56@gsu.edu) with the subject line of, “Urban Geography Frontline Editor”.
If you wish to discuss the position informally before applying, please contact Kevin.
We will treat all applications as strictly confidential. T&F and the editorial team will judge each on its merits without regard to the race, religion, nationality, or sex of the candidate.