Ellen-J. Pader
Associate Professor of Regional Planning

B.A. in Art History and English, Kenyon College, 1972; Ph.D. in Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1981.

Major area of research is the cultural, social, and political facets of housing policy and design, particularly housing discrimination. Teaches courses on social issues in planning from inter-ethnic and cross-cultural perspectives, including: identifying discriminatory practices on the basis of ethnicity, race, gender and class; social change; housing policy and social policy; also teaches qualitative research. Has published on housing policy and design, social and spatial relations, and social theory. Primary fieldwork in Mexico and the U.S.