Regular Faculty
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Jeffrey Q ChambersProfessor and Undergraduate Faculty Advisor for Physical Geography Terrestrial ecosystem ecology and biogeography, tropical forests and climate change interactions, forest disturbance and recovery processes, landscape dynamics and remote sensing |
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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 and Graduate Advisor Climate dynamics, climate variability and change, paleoclimate, and applications of climate studies to society |
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Kurt CuffeyProfessor and Martin Distinguished Chair in Ocean, Earth, and Climate Science Glaciers, climate, geomorphology |
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Desiree FieldsAssistant Professor Economic geography; urban theory; financialization; digital platforms and real estate; urban social movements; constructions of markets; geographical political economy; housing justice |
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You-tien HsingProfessor and Pamela P. Fong Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies 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 Cultural politics of nature and difference; cultural geography, science and technology studies; critical race theory; critical cartography; biopolitics; human and the non-human; and environmental politics |
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Laurel LarsenAssociate Professor Hydroecology, landscape dynamics, complex environmental systems, environmental restoration |
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Jovan Scott LewisAssistant Professor and Undergraduate Faculty Advisor for Human Geography Economic geography, constructions and infrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, and the market; the Caribbean (esp. Jamaica) and African-American communities |
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Norman MillerAdjunct Professor Emeritus Regional climate and hydrology, climate change impacts |
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Robert RhewAssociate Professor and Department Chair Trace gas biogeochemistry, effect of land cover on trace gas exchange, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, and atmospheric pollution |
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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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Harley ShaikenProfessor (Geography and Education) Latin America, labor, information technology, the organization of work, global economic integration, trade |
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Brandi SummersAssistant Professor Black geographies; urban geography; race and urban aesthetics; design, planning, and architecture; cultural politics of difference |
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Dave WahlAssistant Adjunct Professor Biogeography; regional focus: Central America, Western US, Pacific Islands |
Lecturers & Visiting Professors
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Peter EkmanLecturer cultural and historical geography; American and transnational intellectual histories of planning and urbanism; landscape studies; urban and suburban form; social and geographic thought; histories of knowledge, science, and expertise; materiality and material culture; temporality and historiography; ruins and ruination
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Ann LaudatiLecturer Africa; natural resource conflicts; conservation and development; monitoring and evaluation; qualitative fieldwork |
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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 |
Jointly Appointed Faculty
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William DietrichProfessor (Primary Department: Earth & Planetary Science) Seeking mechanistic, quantitative understanding of the form and evolution of landscapes, linkages between ecological and geomorphic processes, building tools to tackle pressing environmental problems |
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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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Paul GrothProfessor Emeritus (Geography and Architecture) Urban life and urban form, cultural landscape studies, the United States, the history of ordinary urban architecture |
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Gillian HartProfessor Emerita & Professor of the Graduate School in Geography, UC BerkeleyDistinguished Professor, Humanities Graduate Centre, University of the Witwatersrand 551 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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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 |