Announcements

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...

“The ships, the trucks, the loading docks are containers of immiserated labor—and therefore, containers of revolutionary potential.”

In a new essay published in Places Journal, Charmaine Chua challenges us to reconsider the ordinary logistics landscapes that surround us. The concrete warehouses lining our freeways, she argues, are not merely sites of storage but infrastructures of capture—of markets, labor, and increasingly, people detained...

The Department of Geography is honored to announce Sophia Perez as a 2026 Lyman Recipient, receiving $8,500 to assist in writing her dissertation. With the award, Sophia will be working on a dissertation chapter focused on the production and content of Island Time, a Mariana Islands-based children’s show she created and directed as a way to tailor the celebration of the Indigenous Chamorro culture and language to the needs and aesthetics of today’s Chamorro youth. Perez argues that...