Regular Faculty
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Gerónimo Barrera de la TorreAssistant Professor Social mapping, political ecology, historical and political geography, environmental history, Indigenous/campesino ontologies and epistemologies, Latin American geographies, videography |
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Tianna BrunoAssistant Professor Environmental justice, Black environmental geographies, critical physical geography, political ecology, Black spatial and ecological relationships, dendrochronology, environmental records |
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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 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. |
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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 theory, geographies of markets, political economy, digital geographies, housing financialization, pedagogy, tending my plant collection |
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Emma FraserAssistant Professor digital culture, space and place, modern ruins, visual media in relation to urban experience, digital media methods, digital storytelling, game studies, new media theory |
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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 LewisProfessor 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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Stephanie PauAssociate Professor biogeography, global change ecology, climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecological functioning, remote sensing |
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Robert RhewProfessor 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 |
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Nathan SayreProfessor 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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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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Seth LunineLecturer cities and suburbs, race and ethnicity, economic geography, landscape studies, the SF 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 |
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Lakshmi SarahLecturer Equity, inequality, immigration, migration, displacement, audience development, audience engagement, language, sociolinguistics, environmental justice, virtual reality, augmented reality, future of journalism |
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Joel WanekLecturer Experimental & documentary film practices, field recording, street photography, spatial poetics, racial dynamics |
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 EmeritaDistinguished Professor, Humanities Graduate Centre, University of the Witwatersrand 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, Agrarian Transformation, political ecology, oil and gas/decarbonization, development theory, Africa, South Asia |