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, comparative postsocialist transformations, socialist legacies, Central Asia, Russia and the Former Soviet Union, China

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

Decolonial and abolition geographies, environmental justice, multispecies care and kinship, cultural knowledge, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx geographies, and Los Angeles 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