This summer, the department installed the Donald S. Moore Geography Library in the 583 McCone Hall, a gift of several hundred volumes drawn from Don's always-expanding Marxist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist archive of thought. For those who did not know Don, he was among the best-read geographers any of us knew, even though he was never formally a geographer.
Don joined the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley in 1998, teaching and advising students across campus, including in geography, until his retirement in 2019. His scholarship turned on power, spatiality, and race, grounded in thirty months of ethnographic fieldwork on agrarian micro-politics in eastern Zimbabwe. His books Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe (Duke, 2005) and Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference (Duke, 2003) have shaped work across anthropology, geography, and postcolonial studies.