Announcements

The world is looking at maps a little differently this week and our very own Associate Professor Clancy Wilmott was there to help explain why.

Clancy Wilmott has been in the international spotlight this week following the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of a resolution supporting the wider use of the Equal Earth projection, a map designed to represent the relative size of the world’s landmasses more accurately. Wilmott spoke with BBC News about what the change means and why the maps we use...

We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Stephanie Pau has been appointed the next Russell L. Rustici Chair in Rangeland Management, effective July 2026.

Established to support the research, teaching, and outreach activities of a faculty member advancing the study of rangeland management, the endowed chair promotes the productive use of rangelands and the viability and sustainability of the domestic livestock industry within the College of Natural Resources. The chair honors Russell L. Rustici...

We are pleased to announce that Alex Chow has received a dissertation fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, which supports research and scholarly exchange in Chinese studies and related fields. The fellowship will support Chow's dissertation project, “Feeling Freedom: Affective Politics, Monetary Order, and Hong Kong’s Modernity (1950s–2019).”

Chow's project examines how ideas and feelings of freedom in Hong Kong were shaped by the convergence of socialist China’s economic...

It's officially live! Swept Off The Map, created by Maria Toldi and Geography Senior, Cole Haddock, for Street Spirit, is a five-piece, seven-month investigative series documents the scope, scale, and consequences of encampment sweeps in Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland. The project creates invaluable new tools...