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Join our team! The Department of Geography invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor with expertise in pertinent subject areas, including but not limited to Pacific Islander studies, Asian diasporas, migration, capitalism, histories of imperialism, labor, social movements, immigration, and environmental change. The successful candidate will enrich the intellectual diversity of the department and fortify its capacity to engage with and contribute to crucial discussions on social, political, and economic disparities, and the multifaceted aspects of race and ethnicity...

Congrats to Associate Professor Jovan Scott Lewis, who has been honored by the Royal Geographical Society with the Gill Memorial Award for exceptional early career research with a remarkable record of achievement. Lewis has established an international reputation as leading scholar in the study of...

California's Reparations Task Force, which Associate Professor Jovan Scott Lewis (pictured center on stage) is a member, has approved recommendations that could mean hundreds of billions of dollars in payments to Black residents to address past injustices. The task force spent more than a year conducting research and holding listening sessions in order to produce a detailed...

"Growing up gay at a time when it was broadly condemned helped form me as an independent thinker. Strong scientists are independent thinkers."

Professor Kurt Cuffey was interviewed for UCOP's Pride month article, "UC’s queer climate scientists on making science as diverse as the natural world." In this article, Cuffey shares what it is...