Graduate Students

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Maria Andrade

mandrade1@berkeley.edu

Mariam Aref Mahmoud

Mariam Aref Mahmoud

mariamaref@berkeley.edu

colonialism, imperialism, critical military studies, urban theory, political economy, racial capitalism, spatial imaginaries, memory 

Isaiah Blake

Isaiah Blake

iblake@berkeley.edu

Black Geographies, critical disaster studies, Black Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Ecologies, climate resilience and adaptation  

Maggie Camillos

Maggie Camillos

mcamillos@berkeley.edu

critical cartographic representation, art practice, earth systems sciences, geomorphology, interconnectivity, vitality, land-based knowledge

William Carter

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

Julia Chang

juliarchang@berkeley.edu

the agrarian question, politics of land, Marxist thought, labor geography, political economy of finance and money, imperialism

Alex Chow

Alex Chow

alexchow@berkeley.edu

Urban political economy, monetary regimes, and financial governance, Racial capitalism and imperial restructuring, Affective politics and emotional governance, Social movements and collective subject formation, Democracy and diaspora political practice

John Cramblitt

John Cramblitt

jcramblitt@berkeley.edu

climate variability and change, Earth systems modeling, land- and ocean-atmosphere interactions

Jillian Crandall

Jillian (Lee) Crandall

j.crandall@berkeley.edu

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

Margot Cohen

Margot Cohen

margotjeanne@berkeley.edu

racial environmental geographies; feminist political ecologies; relational organizing; critical climate studies; critical participatory methods, knowledge practices, and pedagogies

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Zein Dahir

Evan Dowell

Evan Dowell

evan_dowell@berkeley.edu

Political economies of change and development, digital infrastructure networks, infrastructural interconnections, spatial analysis

Sherine Ebadi

Sherine Ebadi

sherine@berkeley.edu

diaspora, migration & displacement, immigration bureaucracy, visa governance, militarism

Catie Galbraith

Catie Galbraith

catie@berkeley.edu

Indigenous geographies, data sovereignty, extractivism, digital geographies, critical cartography, Oklahoma

Adriana Gabrielle Gonzales

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

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

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

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

Tamara Z. Jamil

Carceral Geographies, Rurality, Toxicity, Aesthetics/Critical Aesthetics, Militarized Landscapes, Racial Capitalism, Bio/Necropolitics

Jess Jones

Jess Jones

jess_jones@berkeley.edu

forests, agroecology, agroforestry, mapping, Black Diaspora, art, agrarian studies, bahia, americas

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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

Andrea Lara-Garcia

alaragarcia@berkeley.edu

 U.S.-Mexico borderlands; territory; property; technology; law; contestation

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Dung Le

dungle@berkeley.edu

Ed Martin

Edward Martin

edward.martin@berkeley.edu

Healing Justice, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Abolition, Black Geographies, Racial Capitalism

Jasmine Martin

Jasmine Martin

jasminemartin@berkeley.edu

Black Geographies, Black Atlantic Ecologies, Human-Non-Human Intimacies, Environment, Planning, Afro-Caribbean Futurity

Tasmeem Jahan Meem

Tasmeem Jahan Meem

tjmeem@berkeley.edu

climate dynamics, climate variability and change, monsoons, Earth’s seasonality

Anam Mehta

Anam Mehta

anammehta@berkeley.edu

agricultural technology, labor migration, political economy/ecology, agrarian studies, critical GIS, climate change, California

Sibahle Ndwayana

Sibahle Ndwayana

sibahle@berkeley.edu

Black Geographies, Black Atlantic Geographies, Black Geosonic Epistemologies, Tidalectics, Lusophone, Imperialism, Colonialism, Capitalism

Rosanna Neuhausler

Rosanna Neuhausler

rneuhausler@berkeley.edu

Estrella Pacheco

Estrella Pacheco

estrellapacheco@berkeley.edu

Climate vulnerability, border geographies, legal liminality, climate mitigation and resilience, critical disaster studies, Latine geographies

Lauren Pearson

Lauren Pearson

lauren.pearson@berkeley.edu

Geographies of violence, social lives of land, fire, Southern Italy, meridionalism

Clara Perez

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 Perez

Jimena N. Perez Arevalo

jimena_perez@berkeley.edu

urban infrastructure, repair, river restoration, political and economic development, L.A. River

Sophia Perez

Sophia Perez

sophiaeperez@berkeley.edu

Indigenous geographies, digital media, environmental justice, geographies of repair

Maria Pettis

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 Taylor Robertson

Kennah Robertson

kennahr@berkeley.edu

Territories of Healing, Diasporic Geographies, Reparative Justice, Public Health Policy, Ethnobotany, Political Ecology, Black Atlantic Geographies, Spatial Memory

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Juleon Robinson

juleon.robinson@berkeley.edu

Black geographies, social movements, police/prison abolition, racial capitalism

Alfee Shahreen Rubayet

Alfee Rubayet

rubayet@berkeley.edu

Feminist and Marxist political economy; labor geography; critical heat studies; postcolonialism; development and underdevelopment; caste; digital surveillance; South Asia; Bangladesh

Charlotte Ramwell Tomlinson

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

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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

Gabriel Vieira

Gabriel Vieira

gvieira@berkeley.edu

crime/criminality, neoliberalism, austerity, ethnography, racial geographies

Kimberley Watt

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 Weber

anna_rene@berkeley.edu

tropical rainforests and climate change, critical biogeography, anticolonial and indigenous ecologies, drought, remote sensing, phenology, Brazilian Amazon

Alexis Wood

Alexis E. Wood

aew78@berkeley.edu

fringe political movements; affect; digital geographies; critical cartography; politics of climate change; American landscapes