Regular Faculty
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Jeffrey Q. ChambersProfessor Biogeography and the biosphere; forests and climate change; vegetation dynamics and remote sensing; the anthropocene |
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Sharad ChariAssociate Professor Geography as history of the present and as Earth/world-writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor and work, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic humanities, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean |
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John ChiangProfessor Climate dynamics, climate variability and change, paleoclimate |
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Kurt CuffeyProfessor and Martin Distinguished Chair in Ocean, Earth, and Climate Science Glaciers, climate, geomorphology |
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Desiree FieldsAssociate Professor Economic geography; urban geography, housing financialization, housing justice, geographical political economy |
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You-tien HsingProfessor Political economy of development in East Asia (especially China), power and space, cultural and environmental politics, urbanization; regional focus: China |
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Jake KosekAssociate Professor 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
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Laurel LarsenAssociate Professor Hydroecology, landscape dynamics, complex environmental systems, environmental restoration |
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Jovan Scott LewisAssociate Professor and Department Chair Black Geographies, Economic geography, Caribbean Thought, decoloniality, reparations and repair, poverty and inequality, race (blackness), the Caribbean (Jamaica) African-American communities (Tulsa, OK) |
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Norman MillerAdjunct Professor Emeritus Regional climate and hydrology, climate change impacts |
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Robert RhewAssociate Professor Trace gas biogeochemistry, effect of land cover on trace gas exchange, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, and atmospheric pollution |
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Nathan SayreProfessor and Head Graduate Advisor 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 |
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Brandi SummersAssociate Professor Black geographies; urban geography; race and urban aesthetics; design, planning, and architecture; cultural politics of difference |
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Dave WahlAssociate Adjunct Professor Biogeography; regional focus: Central America, Western US, Pacific Islands |
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Clancy WilmottAssistant Professor 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
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John IsomLecturer Cartographic theory and pedagogy, critical and counter cartographies, and maps as rhetorical and critical texts; political ecology, historical ecology, the Tibetan Plateau, environmental governance and environmental human rights |
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Seth LunineLecturer Cities and suburbs; economic geography; cultural landscapes; the S.F. Bay Area, California, and the American west |
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Diana Negrín da SilvaLecturer Human and cultural geography, race and indigeneity, social movements, Latin America and California |
Melanie FeakinsLecturer |
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Joel WanekLecturer Experimental & documentary film practices, field recording, street photography , spatial poetics, racial dynamics
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Jointly Appointed Faculty
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G. Mathias KondolfProfessor (Primary Department: Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning) 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 |
Professor (City and Regional Planning) |
Pheng Cheah |
Professor (Rhetoric) 510-642-9426 7310 Dwinelle Hall pcheah@berkeley.edu |
Iryna Dronova |
Assistant Professor (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning) 510-642-2930 304 Wurster Hall idronova@berkeley.edu |
Maggi Kelly |
Professor (Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management) 510-642-7272 121 Mulford Hall maggi@berkeley.edu |
Nancy Peluso |
Professor (Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management) 510-643-2797 139 Giannini Hall npeluso@berkeley.edu |
John Radke |
Associate Professor (Landscape Architecture) |
Isha Ray |
Associate Professor (Energy and Resources Group) 510-642-1640 310 Barrows Hall isharay@berkeley.edu |
Raka Ray |
Professor (Sociology) 510-642-6081 472 Barrows rakaray@berkeley.edu |
Emeriti
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William E. DietrichProfessor Emeritus (Geography and Earth & Planetary Science) 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. |
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Gillian HartProfessor Emerita & Professor of the Graduate School in Geography, UC BerkeleyDistinguished Professor, Humanities Graduate Centre, University of the Witwatersrand 515A McCone Hall Political economy, social theory, critical human geography; Southern Africa, Southeast Asia |
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Michael JohnsProfessor Emeritus Cities, culture, and history in the Americas |
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Beatriz ManzProfessor Emeritus (Geography and Ethnic Studies) Latin America, peasantry, migrations, social movements, human rights, political/social/ethnic conflict |
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Harley ShaikenProfessor Emeritus (Geography and Education) Latin America, labor, information technology, the organization of work, global economic integration, trade |
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Richard A. WalkerProfessor Emeritus |
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Michael WattsProfessor Emeritus Political economy and political ecology; energy and the environment; Africa; famine; risk and vulnerability; violence and dispossession |