James W. Carey Urban Communication Grant

The James W. Carey Urban Communication Grant, awarded by the Urban Communication Foundation, supports innovative research on urban communication's impact in societies. With a focus on civic engagement and equitable communication access, this $2,500 grant encourages submissions from diverse fields, including architecture and social sciences. It prioritizes projects addressing racial justice and those from the Global South, honoring Carey's legacy of understanding urbanity's social and cultural dimensions.

Since our launch in 2005, the Urban Communication Foundation has provided awards and grants to dozens of distinguished scholars, researchers, and journalists to recognize and support provocative work that contributes in significant ways to the discourse around urban communication issues.
While most of our recipients hail from academia and journalism, we also encourage submissions from other practitioners whose work will lend new insights into the discipline, raise broader awareness of related socio-political, economic, and cultural concerns, or influence public policy, including:

• architects
• urban planners
• environmental psychologists
• geographers
• political and other social scientists
• philosophers and ethicists
• artists
• The James W. Carey Urban Communication Grant

The James Carey Urban Communication Grant supports research that advances knowledge on the consequences of urban communication in and across urban societies. The grant is awarded by the Urban Communication Foundation (UCF) and co-sponsored by the Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division; the Health Communication Division, and the Popular Media & Culture Division. We welcome applications for research that will engage different urban actors and which will support civic engagement and equitable access to communication opportunities in the city. The $2,500 grant is designed to facilitate research in progress or in the planning stages. It gives priority to projects that feature innovation and creative approaches to studying the transformation of urban communities and urban public life, especially at times of local and global change.
The grant is driven by James W. Carey’s scholarship and values. Carey, who was committed to the study of urbanity and community, famously noted: “I think all education, all scholarship is ultimately an aspect of citizenship”. He was committed to understanding the social and cultural consequences of technological and media change in cities and urban communities.