Dr Santana Palacios is an Assistant Professor with a join appointment in the Knowlton School’s City and Regional Planning Section and the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering. He also holds a Provost Scholar Assistant Professorship. Dr. Santana Palacios specializes in transportation policy and planning and just urban transitions. His research takes an interdisciplinary perspective to study how investments in infrastructures and policy initiatives that promote sustainable transportation impact population groups differently by race, ethnicity, and other forms of stratification that divide society. His work on transportation policy and planning and distributive justice also intersects with questions about land development, and climate change adaptation in the global South.

 

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Dr. Santana Palacios obtained a Doctorate in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and a Master’s in Transportation Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes, and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA. Prior to joining Knowlton, Dr. Santana Palacios was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he collaborated with other scholars on a project that examined the nexus of transportation and health in North Carolina. He has worked as a consultant for the World Resource Institute, the Latin American Development Bank, and The World Bank on issues around transportation policy and sustainable development.