NARSC Update

Graduate students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in North America who are conducting dissertation research related to regional science are encouraged to apply for the Twenty-Sixth Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science, administered by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) of the Regional Science Association International.

This Fellowship, in support of dissertation research in regional science, is awarded annually in memory of Dr. Benjamin H. Stevens, an intellectual leader whose selfless devotion to graduate students as teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend had a profound impact on the field. Regional Science is a multidisciplinary field concerned with urban and regional phenomena. Regional Scientists apply theoretical and empirical frameworks and methods of social and other sciences and develop new ones specifically for regional analysis and policy.

Application deadline is February 20, 2026.

Find more information and apply HERE.

Reaching Regions is seeking outreach-oriented submissions for a special issue on Tax Increment Financing (TIF).

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Improving the TIF evaluation and implementation process

- Political economy aspects of TIF implementation

- Impacts on overlapping jurisdictions, including school districts

- Citizen responses to TIF

- Legal aspects of TIF

- Policies to improve TIF accountability and transparency

- Case studies on TIF implementation and outcomes

Deadline for submission to the special issue is February 15, 2026.

Reaching Regions is the official outreach journal of the North American Regional Science Council. Reaching Regions is open access, peer-reviewed, and publishes outreach articles targeted to non-academic audiences.

Articles should follow submission instructions and be submitted via the journal website: https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/rreg/submissions/

The submission fee will be waived for all articles submitted to the special issue.

For questions contact:

Cynthia Rogers, Special Issue Guest Editor, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Heather Stephens, Editor, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

John Winters, Editor, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Reaching Regions is seeking outreach-oriented submissions for a special issue on Migration.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Economic impacts of migration on sending and receiving regions
• Internal migration trends and their causes and consequences
• International migration causes and consequences
• State and local public policy impacts on migration
• Climate and environmental migration
• Migration over the life course
• Human capital and migration
• Job search and migration
• Other drivers of migration and consequences for migrants

Deadline for submission to the special issue is May 1, 2026.

Reaching Regions is the official outreach journal of the North American Regional Science Council. Reaching Regions is open access, peer-reviewed, and publishes outreach articles written in non-technical language targeted to non-academic audiences. 

Contributions may include original descriptive analyses, non-technical summaries of published academic research, research syntheses, and case studies with broader implications for North American regions.

Articles should follow submission instructions and be submitted via the journal website: https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/rreg/submissions/

The submission fee will be waived for all articles submitted to the special issue.

For questions contact the Editors:

Kevin Kane, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Heather Stephens, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

John Winters, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Emily Wornell, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Remember to check out the NARSC website for job openings.

You could find your next position!