Margaret Wilder
PhD, University of Michigan, 1983
Community development policy and organization, economic development policy and planning, housing problems and policy, race, gender and economic mobility
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Dr. Wilder became Executive Director of the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) in 2005 after completing two terms as Board Chair. Previously, she served as Professor and Senior Policy Fellow in Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Delaware. Prior to this, she was a faculty member at Indiana University and Cornell (where she received tenure), and chair of the Department of Geography and Planning at the State University of New York-Albany. She has served as an editor for Sage Publications, Cities and Planning Book Series, and as a member of the editorial boards of the University of Minnesota Book Series: Globalization and Community, the Journal of Urban Affairs, the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Public Administration Review, and the California Politics and Policy Journal.