Adriana Gonzales

Research Areas

Interests

the Caribbean, Black geographies and ecologies, Indigenous geographies, political ecology, infrastructure (food-water-energy systems), sustainable development, critical disaster studies (hurricanes), post-disaster recovery, agrarian studies, community survival and resilience, social mapping, de/colonial world-making

Contact Information

adriana.gonzales@berkeley.edu

Biography

Adriana Gonzales is interested in investigating and mapping the pasts, presents, and futures of development and resilience across the Caribbean through the lenses of disaster, infrastructure, and agroecology. Adriana currently focuses on the political ecologies of disaster in Dominica and Puerto Rico from the late, post-Emancipation 19th century to the post-Hurricane Maria present. Adriana is a co-founder of the Caribbean Coalition at Berkeley.

Before her time at Berkeley, Adriana was an international research associate working to evaluate and improve the efficacy of international energy and maternal health projects in West Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. She was also a practicing full spectrum doula, childbirth educator, and lactation counselor.

Education

M.S. in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 2024

B.A. in Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2021, Magna Cum Laude and Departmental Honors

teaching experience

Graduate Student Instructor, Globalization, UC Berkeley, Fall 2025