Announcements

We are proud to announce that april l. graham-jackson, Geography PhD alum (2024) has been awarded a 2025 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The longest running program at the organization, ACLS Fellowships support outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

graham-jackson has been recognized as one of 62 outstanding scholars from a pool of over 2,300 applicants through a multi-stage peer review process. ACLS...

“Many maps respond to questions of time by freezing it, presenting a cross-section or snapshot of a landscape, that then needs more maps to show change. This map addresses this issue by showing how spaces and landscapes hold time too, portraying both the past and present together, rather than freezing time in place.”

A recent interview with Clancy Wilmott highlights her collaboration with the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and studio-geo?...

Congratulations to Ambrosia Shapiro, Undergraduate Major Advisor and Events/Communications Coordinator, who has been selected to receive UC Berkeley's Outstanding Advisor Award. The criteria for this award is an individual who has demonstrated a positive impact on student learning, engagement, belonging, and success; and embody a student-centered, equity-oriented, strengths-based approach to advising, counseling...

Professor Nathan Sayre has published a new paper in the Journal of Peasant Studies on the history and political ecology of the feedlot in US livestock production. The key takeaway is that for over a century, corn-fed beef was sustained without chemical fertilizers, relying on a closed nutrient loop rather than the metabolic rift that defines the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) of today. This history is completely missing from current...