Faculty

Regular Faculty

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Assistant Professor
589 McCone Hall
gbarrera@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Social mapping, political ecology, historical and political geography, environmental history, Indigenous/campesino ontologies and epistemologies, Latin American geographies, videography

Professor Tianna Bruno

Tianna Bruno

Assistant Professor
597 McCone Hall
tbruno@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Environmental justice, Black environmental geographies, critical physical geography, political ecology, Black spatial and ecological relationships, dendrochronology, environmental records

Professor Jeff Chambers

Jeffrey Q. Chambers

Professor
519 McCone Hall
jqchambers@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Biogeography and the biosphere; forests and climate change; vegetation dynamics and remote sensing; the anthropocene

Professor Sharad Chari

Sharad Chari

Associate Professor
543 McCone Hall
chari@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, Marxist critique of political economy, critical theory in the Global South, racial/sexual capitalism, the agrarian question, labor, the Black radical tradition, biopolitics, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, and the African-Indian Ocean.

Professor John Chiang

John Chiang 

Professor
547 McCone Hall
jch_chiang@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Climate dynamics, climate variability and change, paleoclimate

Kurt Cuffey

Kurt Cuffey

Professor and Martin Distinguished Chair in Ocean, Earth, and Climate Science
510-642-1641
525 McCone Hall
kcuffey@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Glaciers, climate, geomorphology

Desiree Fields

Desiree Fields

Associate Professor
555 McCone Hall
desireefields@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Economic geography, urban theory, geographies of markets, political economy, digital geographies, housing financialization, pedagogy, tending my plant collection

Emma Fraser

Emma Fraser

Assistant Professor
517 McCone Hall
emma.fraser@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

digital culture, space and place, modern ruins, visual media in relation to urban experience, digital media methods, digital storytelling, game studies, new media theory

You-tien Hsing

Professor
545 McCone Hall
yhsing@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Political economy of development in East Asia (especially China), power and space, cultural and environmental politics, urbanization; regional focus: China

Jake Kosek

Jake Kosek

Associate Professor
585 McCone Hall
jake@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Nature/Science/Empire, Race and Colonialism, Critical Natural Histories, Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Politics, Postcolonial Natures, Political/Social Theory, Political Economy,  Racial Capitalism, Political Ecology and Bio/Necropolitics
Professor Laurel Larsen

Laurel Larsen

Associate Professor
595 McCone Hall
laurel@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Hydroecology, landscape dynamics, complex environmental systems, environmental restoration

Jovan Scott Lewis

Jovan Scott Lewis

Professor and Department Chair
515A McCone Hall
jovan@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Black Geographies, Economic geography, Caribbean Thought, decoloniality, reparations and repair, poverty and inequality, race (blackness), the Caribbean (Jamaica) African-American communities (Tulsa, OK)

Stephanie Pau

Stephanie Pau

Associate Professor
513 McCone Hall
stephaniepau@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

biogeography, global change ecology, climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecological functioning, remote sensing

Robert Rhew

Professor
510-664-4072
539 McCone Hall
rrhew@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Trace gas biogeochemistry, atmospheric composition and chemistry, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, stratospheric ozone depletion, greenhouse gases, biogenic volatile organic compounds, land use and climate change impacts

Nathan Sayre

Professor
599 McCone Hall
nsayre@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Environmental geography; social dimensions of rangeland ecology and management; environmental history; scale; political economy; climate change; food; regional focus: southwestern US, northwestern Mexico, arid and semiarid rangelands

Dave Wahl

Associate Adjunct Professor
109 McCone Hall
dwahl@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Biogeography; regional focus: Central America, Western US, Pacific Islands

Professor Clancy Wilmott

Clancy Wilmott

Assistant Professor
551 McCone Hall
clancy.wilmott@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Critical cartography; media geographies; critical GIS and data studies; cultural memory and landscape; politics of representation, textuality and visuality; digitalities, lived, made and inherited.

Lecturers & Visiting Professors

seth Lunine

Seth Lunine

Lecturer
563 McCone Hall
slunine@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

cities and suburbs, race and ethnicity, economic geography, landscape studies, the SF Bay Area, California, and the American west

Diana Negrín da Silva

Diana Negrín da Silva

Lecturer
negrindasilva@gmail.com(link sends e-mail)

Human and cultural geography, race and indigeneity, social movements, Latin America and California

Lakshmi Sarah

Lakshmi Sarah

Lecturer
561 McCone Hall
lakisarah@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Equity, inequality, immigration, migration, displacement, audience development, audience engagement, language, sociolinguistics, environmental justice, virtual reality, augmented reality, future of journalism

Professor Joel Wanek

Joel Wanek

Lecturer
593 McCone Hall
joel-wanek@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Experimental & documentary film practices, field recording, street photography, spatial poetics, racial dynamics


Jointly Appointed Faculty

Matt Kondolf

G. Mathias Kondolf(link is external)

Professor (Primary Department: Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning)
510-642-2904
300 Wurster Hall
kondolf@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Hydrology; environmental geology; environmental impact assessment; riparian zone management. Emphasis on stream channel processes as they relate to natural resource management.

Faculty Affiliates

Teresa Caldeira(link is external)

Professor (City and Regional Planning)
510-642-3619
326C Wurster Hall #1850
tcaldeira@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Pheng Cheah(link is external)

Professor (Rhetoric)
510-642-9426
7310 Dwinelle Hall
pcheah@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Iryna Dronova(link is external)

Assistant Professor (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning)
510-642-2930
304 Wurster Hall
idronova@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Maggi Kelly(link is external)

Professor (Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management)
510-642-7272
121 Mulford Hall
maggi@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Nancy Peluso(link is external)

Professor (Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management)
510-643-2797
139 Giannini Hall
npeluso@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

John Radke(link is external)

Associate Professor (Landscape Architecture)
510-643-5995
200 Wurster Hall
ratt@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Isha Ray(link is external)

Associate Professor (Energy and Resources Group) 510-642-1640
310 Barrows Hall
isharay@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Raka Ray(link is external)

Professor (Sociology)
510-642-6081
472 Barrows
rakaray@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Emeriti

William E. Dietrich(link is external)

Professor Emeritus (Geography and Earth & Planetary Science)
bill@eps.berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Seeking mechanistic, quantitative understanding of the form and evolution of landscapes. In addition, we are seeking linkages between ecological and geomorphic processes, and building tools to tackle pressing environmental problems.

Gillian Hart

Professor Emerita
Distinguished Professor, Humanities Graduate Centre, University of the Witwatersrand 

hart@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Political economy, social theory, critical human geography; Southern Africa, Southeast Asia

Michael Johns

Professor Emeritus 
johns@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) 

Cities, culture, and history in the Americas

Beatriz Manz

Professor Emeritus (Geography and Ethnic Studies) 
bmanz@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) 

Latin America, peasantry, migrations, social movements, human rights, political/social/ethnic conflict

Harley Shaiken

Professor Emeritus (Geography and Education)
hshaiken@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Latin America, labor, information technology, the organization of work, global economic integration, trade

Michael Watts

Michael Watts

Professor Emeritus
mwatts@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)

Political economy, Agrarian Transformation, political ecology, oil and gas/decarbonization, development theory, Africa, South Asia