Graduate Students

Nicholas Anderman

nanderman@berkeley.edu

oceanic environments and ecologies, science and technology, imperialism, global political economy, environmental politics, sound

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

cartographic representation, illustration, earth systems sciences, interconnectivity and ecological theory

William Carter

william.carter@berkeley.edu

Atlantic history, caribeanist 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

 Agroecology, agrarian studies, food and seed sovereignty, political economy

Alex Chow

alexchow@berkeley.edu

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

Jillian (Lee) Crandall

j.crandall@berkeley.edu

(crypto)colonialism; political ecologies; feminist economic geographies; digital geographies; land/housing financialization; critical cartographies

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

S.E. Freeman

s.freeman@berkeley.edu

quantification, biometrics, surveillance, human (im)mobilities, critical humanitarianism, legacies of colonialism, queer and feminist STS

Adam Hasan

Political economy; agrarian studies; Black geographies; financialization; postcolonial studies; sovereignty; infrastructure; SWANA (Lebanon)

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; racial capitalism; Black geographies; critical cartography; abolitionist futures; aesthetics of order

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

Sibahle Ndwayana

sibahle@berkeley.edu

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

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

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

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