Regular Faculty
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Jeffrey 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, 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 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 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 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 SummersAssistant 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 Political ecology, historical ecology, the Tibetan Plateau, environmental governance and environmental human rights; cartographic theory, critical and counter cartographies, and maps as rhetorical and critical texts. |
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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 |
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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Harley ShaikenProfessor Emeritus (Geography and Education) Latin America, labor, information technology, the organization of work, global economic integration, trade |
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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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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 |