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 economy; social movement; political ecology; community building; spirituality, subjectivity, and agency
	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, 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