Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A. Occidental College; M.U.R.P., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Appointed In
2025
Office
UEP 203
Hours
Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00pm; and Thursdays, 1:30-2:30pm
Madeline Wander is a scholar of transportation, race, and space. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban planning produces racialized transportation disparities and how such disparities shape people’s mobility experiences and economic outcomes.
She draws on conceptual frameworks from multiple fields—including geography, planning, ethnic studies, mobilities, and environmental justice—and deploys quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze the interconnection between transportation and racial-spatial inequalities in pursuit of mobility justice.