Graduate Students | Berkeley Geography

	Mariam Aref Mahmoud mariamaref@berkeley.edu colonialism, imperialism, critical military studies, urban theory, political economy, racial capitalism, spatial imaginaries, memory
	Isaiah Blake iblake@berkeley.edu Black Geographies, critical disaster studies, Black Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Ecologies, climate resilience and adaptation
	Maggie Camillos mcamillos@berkeley.edu critical cartographic representation, art practice, earth systems sciences, geomorphology, interconnectivity, vitality, land-based knowledge
	William Carter william.carter@berkeley.edu Atlantic history, Caribbeanist historiography, historicity two, aquatic history, transatlantic slave trade, British slave trade 18th-century, the slave ship, rivers and littoral spaces (west/central Africa), race (blackness/whiteness), shipboard rebellion and disability
	Julia Chang juliarchang@berkeley.edu agrarian studies, Marxist thought, postcolonial development, political economy, imperialism
	Alex Chow alexchow@berkeley.edu Urban political economy, monetary regimes, and financial governance, Racial capitalism and imperial restructuring, Affective politics and emotional governance, Social movements and collective subject formation, Democracy and diaspora political practice
	John Cramblitt jcramblitt@berkeley.edu climate variability and change, Earth systems modeling, land- and ocean-atmosphere interactions
	Jillian (Lee) Crandall j.crandall@berkeley.edu (crypto)colonialism; political ecologies; feminist economic geographies; digital geographies; land/housing financialization; critical cartographies
	Margot Cohen margotjeanne@berkeley.edu racial environmental geographies; feminist political ecologies; relational organizing; critical climate studies; critical participatory methods, knowledge practices, and pedagogies
	Zein Dahir
	Evan Dowell evan_dowell@berkeley.edu Political economies of change and development, digital infrastructure networks, infrastructural interconnections, spatial analysis
	Sherine Ebadi sherine@berkeley.edu diaspora, migration & displacement, immigration bureaucracy, visa governance, militarism
	Adriana Gonzales adriana.gonzales@berkeley.edu 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
	Adam Hasan Black geographies; political (geo)economy; critical logistics; infrastructure; critical materials; U.S. South (Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana); Southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe)
	Rayyaan Hector rayyaan.hector@berkeley.edu Political ecology, environmental justice, extractivism, Black geographies, Black ecologies, plantation colonialism, modernity-coloniality-decoloniality (MCD), critical social theory, underdevelopment, critical physical geography
	Kaya Herron kaya.herron@berkeley.edu Black geographies, political economy, Black ecologies, infrastructure, (under)development, migration, dispossession, repair, reparations; black spatial and economic relationships
	Tamara Z. Jamil Carceral Geographies, Rurality, Toxicity, Aesthetics/Critical Aesthetics, Militarized Landscapes, Racial Capitalism, Bio/Necropolitics
	David Kalman dkalman@berkeley.edu political ecology, historical geography, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, human-nonhuman entanglements, anthropocenic thought and its critics, politics of climate change
	Andrea Lara-Garcia alaragarcia@berkeley.edu U.S.-Mexico borderlands; territory; property; technology; law; contestation
	Xander Lenc xanderlenc@berkeley.edu Prisons and mass incarceration, racial capitalism, political ecology, abolition, California, infrastructure, queer theory, settler-colonialism
	Kendrick Manymules kendrick.manymules@berkeley.edu Indigeneity/settler colonialism; sovereignty; land and the geologic; dispossession
	Edward Martin edward.martin@berkeley.edu Black Geographies, Racial capitalism, Space Making, Development politics, West Africa, Senegal
	Jasmine Martin jasminemartin@berkeley.edu Black Geographies, Black Atlantic Ecologies, Human-Non-Human Intimacies, Environment, Planning, Afro-Caribbean Futurity
	Tasmeem Jahan Meem tjmeem@berkeley.edu climate dynamics, climate variability and change, monsoons, Earth’s seasonality
	Anam Mehta anammehta@berkeley.edu agricultural technology, labor migration, political economy/ecology, agrarian studies, critical GIS, climate change, California
	Sibahle Ndwayana sibahle@berkeley.edu Black Geographies, Black Atlantic Geographies, Black Geosonic Epistemologies, Tidalectics, Lusophone, Imperialism, Colonialism, Capitalism
	Estrella Pacheco estrellapacheco@berkeley.edu Climate vulnerability, border geographies, legal liminality, climate mitigation and resilience, critical disaster studies, Latine geographies
	Lauren Pearson lauren.pearson@berkeley.edu Geographies of violence, social lives of land, fire, Southern Italy, meridionalism
	Clara Pérez Medina cbperez@berkeley.edu visuality, spatial imaginary, visual geographies, film, filmmaking, film geographies, Black geographies, Latinx geographies, spatial memory, place-making, photography, visual methods, Oakland, Berkeley
	Jimena N. Perez Arevalo jimena_perez@berkeley.edu urban infrastructure, repair, river restoration, political and economic development, L.A. River
	Sophia Perez sophiaeperez@berkeley.edu Digital media; environmental justice movements; indigeneity
	Maria Pettis maria_pettis@berkeley.edu Black-Land Relations, Black Ecologies, and Biogeography, New Media and Geographic Representation / Augmented and Mixed Reality, The Lower Mississippi River Delta, Environmental History
	Kennah Robertson kennahr@berkeley.edu Territories of Healing, Diasporic Geographies, Reparative Justice, Public Health Policy, Ethnobotany, Political Ecology, Black Atlantic Geographies, Spatial Memory
	Juleon Robinson juleon.robinson@berkeley.edu Black geographies, social movements, police/prison abolition, racial capitalism
	Maya Sapienza mayasapienza@berkeley.edu gentrification, Black identity formation, bureaucracy, geographies of urban justice, struggles over public and private space
	Roland Theiss christophertheiss@berkeley.edu geomorphology, glaciology, finite element analysis, rock mechanics, continuum mechanics, nonlinear fluid mechanics
	Char Tomlinson cbrtomlinson@berkeley.edu verticality and volumetric landscapes, geomorphology, critical cartography/GIS, alternative methods for field mapping, relational epistemologies, ecosystem interactions, climate change effects, grief and risk in mountainous terrain
	Ailén Vega ailen.vega@berkeley.edu chemical exposure/contamination; resource extraction; indigenous politics; political ontology; critical indigenous studies; feminist science and technology studies; Brazilian Amazon
	Kimberley Watt kimberley_watt@berkeley.edu China’s foreign direct investment, land governance, bauxite mining, natural resource extraction, environmental regulation, postcolonial development, South–South relations
	Anna Weber anna_rene@berkeley.edu tropical rainforests and climate change, critical biogeography, anticolonial and indigenous ecologies, drought, remote sensing, phenology, Brazilian Amazon
	Alexis E. Wood aew78@berkeley.edu fringe political movements; affect; digital geographies; critical cartography; politics of climate change; American landscapes