Current Graduate Students
Saalem AderaHydrology, land-atmosphere feedbacks, rainfall recycling in Brazil, hydrologic modeling, water resources management in California, data-driven methods for analysis of complex environmental systems |
Nick Anderman |
Alexander Arroyo |
Keith Brower BrownThe politics of climate crisis, care and construction labor, focusing on California and Brazil. Social reproduction, hegemony, racial capitalism, and political ecology |
Phillip CampanileThe genealogy of the production of space bears a dialectical relationship to the history of its appropriation |
William Carter |
Alex ChowUrban economy; social movement; political ecology; community building; spirituality, subjectivity, and agency |
Evan Dowell |
Sherine EbadiPostcolonial theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, Black geographies, diaspora, migration & displacement, Central Asia, empire, visual & participatory methods |
Gabe Eckhouse'Peak oil', political economy, global energy security |
John Elrick
Histories of the Urban Present; Political Economies and Ecologies of Cities; Cultural Landscapes; Political Theory; Science and Technology Studies |
Yanlei Feng |
S.E. FreemanMigration and displacement, humanitarianism, biometrics, human mobility, legacies of colonialism, ethnography, genealogy as method |
April L. Graham-JacksonChicago, Black Geographies, Geomusicology (house music/hip hop), Black Cultural Production, Qualitative Research Methods, Black Post-Civil Rights Generation, Urban Ethnography, Political Economy, Black Feminist Theory, Black Generational Geographies |
Kaily HeitzVisual narratives through photography, representation, Black Diaspora studies, identity formation, migration & displacement, borderlands, American Western landscape, community resilience |
Jane HendersonBlack geographies, environmental racism, racial formation, food justice, resistance & healing, community organizing, Midwestern cultures, Minnesota geographies |
Adam JadhavPolitical ecology, critical development theory, “peasants,” urbanization, neoliberalism, the marine/coastal commons, India, cycling |
Yi JiaoAtmospheric Chemistry |
Mary Jirmanus |
Sol Kim |
Miri Lavi-Neeman |
Xander Lenc |
Christopher LesserEnvironmental Geography; Critical Cartography; Historical Ecologies; Latin America |
Kan Liu |
Annie LloydUrbanization, mobility infrastructures, Los Angeles, Black geographies, racial capitalism |
Kerby Lynch |
Kendrick ManymulesDecolonization and settler colonialism, geohistories of Diné resistance, racial capitalism, infrastructure |
Bridget K. MartinMilitarized space and urbanism in South Korea |
Evangeline McGlynnDisasters, Earthquakes, Landscape, Cartography |
Robert MoellerBlack Geographies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, American Studies, Sacramento River, Racial Capitalism, Affect, Memory, Infrastructure, Food Studies |
Mikey Mohan |
Rosanna Neuhausler |
Lauren PearsonGeographies of violence, historical political ecology/environmental history, settler colonialism, colonial botanical trade, fire |
Maria PettisBlack Geographies, Assemblage, Worldmaking, Ontology/Epistemology |
David Pieper |
Juleon RobinsonBlack geographies, social movements, police/prison abolition, racial capitalism |
Sam SteinCoastal ecosystems, wetlands, adaptive management, biogeochemical cycling |
Roland Theiss |
Caroline TraceyLand use/governance and transformation, agriculture and rangelands, and environmental history and environmental racism in arid and semi-arid environments. My main commitments lie in Front Range and Eastern/Southeastern Colorado and the Central Valley of California. |
Ailén VegaBA Geography with Honors & Political Economy 2016, UC Berkeley (MMUF fellow) |
Morgan P. VickersBlack geographies, drowned towns, memory & memorialization, belonging & dispossession |
Xiaowei R. Wang |
Brittany Helena YoungClimate change and development politics; land; the future; South Africa; Ethiopia |
Leonora Zoninsein |