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Madeleine Hamlin is an urban and carceral geographer whose work investigates the intersections of housing policy, race, class, and the carceral state in U.S. cities. She has a particular interest in how carceral power shapes the housing landscapes of the urban poor.  Her forthcoming book, Policing the Project (under contract with University of Chicago Press) traces how Chicago's public housing was policed over time, arguing that policing played a heretofore under-examined role in the large-scale privatization of public housing, in addition to the myriad ways that policing shaped residents' experiences of everyday life. She is also a co-editor of the forthcoming collection Keywords in Housing Justice (PM Press), an international lexicon-style volume on housing justice research and praxis with contributions from scholars and activists from around the world. A member of the Unequal Cities network, her research and writing on public housing in both Chicago and Syracuse, NY has been published in Antipode, Urban Geography, and Society and Space. She also maintains an interest in housing for the formerly incarcerated, a topic she has explored in venues including The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, The Professional Geographer, and Social Service Review. Finally, Dr. Hamlin has also explored the emerging area of abolition geography through her teaching and in research published in Progress in Human Geography. She continues to experiment with new genres and seek new venues for her scholarship, including story maps, short films, op-eds, and public-facing work published in outlets like CityLab. 

Dr. Hamlin received her PhD in Geography from Syracuse University in 2022, where she also received an MA in Geography and a Master's in Public Administration in 2017. She has formerly worked as a policy analyst in Chicago, working in the areas of public housing, police accountability, and criminal justice reform. In 2021, she was named an Emerging Scholar by the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, and has also received research support from a Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn Pruitt Fellowship. Dr. Hamlin has taught at º£½ÇÉçÇø since 2022 and also has experience teaching in a regional prison. You can read more about her work at .