Announcements

Ally Matheson, Geography Undergrad, Chosen for Virginia Tech Internship

April 26, 2024

Ally Matheson, Geography undergraduate, has been hired as a summer research assistant for the Dayer Lab at Virginia Tech! Ally will be working closely with Nathan Thayer, a postdoctoral researcher, to analyze survey data collected from members of professional societies, review and report on social science literature on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the sciences, assist in writing reports, and create presentations to report out...

Lecturer Joel Wanek Wins Berkeley Collegium Grant Award

April 18, 2024
Congratulations to Lecturer Joel Wanek, who has been chosen as a recipient of a Berkeley Collegium Grant Award for his proposal, "Deep Listening: Sonically Mapping Bay Area Creeks!”

Summer Nicholas, Geography junior, hired as an intern for Sustainable Oils

March 23, 2024

Geography junior, Summer Nicholas, has been hired as an intern for a Biotech/Agtech company, Sustainable Oils (SusOils). Sustainable Oils owns genetic patents of a crop called Camelina. Camelina is used to produce renewable diesel. Between May and August, Summer will be traveling across Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Montana, and Washington as part of a Sustainable Oils project in collaboration with the USDA. The focus will be on maintaining and ensuring the accuracy of crucial equipment, including carbon sequestration and water vapor...

Annabelle Law, Geography Senior, Shares Her Experience Presenting at the 2024 AAG Conference

April 30, 2024

Annabelle Law, Geography senior, was awarded $400 in department funds to participate in the weeklong 2024 AAG conference. Below, she shares her experience and insights from the event.

Attending the American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference in Hawai’i this year was an experience that intertwined learning, reflection, and immersion in a complex socio-geographical context. The choice of Hawai’i as the conference venue, though controversial due to the island’s challenges with tourism and militarism, provided a unique backdrop for exploring themes of indigenous knowledge,...

Lecturer Diana Negrín da Silva Named a Flourish Fellow for the Psychedelics in Society and Culture Program

May 15, 2024

The UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) and the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) have announced the first cohort of the Psychedelics in Society and Culture program—an initiative aimed at expanding psychedelic research and dialogue across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The program, in collaboration with Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities...

Tianna Bruno Publishes New Article, "Black ecological relations and methodologies"

August 16, 2024

"Literature on black environmental geographies uplifts black land and water relations, marronage, placemaking practices, and the envisioning of black futurity in the face of environmental and climate precarity. This demonstrates the ways these communities are not only geographic actors, but also ecological actors and caretakers."

Black environmental geographies scholarship has made significant strides in expanding the ways we understand ecologies and ecological relationships interweaving the lives of black communities across the black diaspora. In this article,...

Geography Alum, ameia camielle smith, Published in Sounding Out!

June 25, 2024

Geography alum, ameia camielle smith (B.A. '24), has just been published in Sounding Out!, a peer-reviewed sound studies publication which seeks to direct the field’s energy toward the social, cultural, and political aspects of sound and listening since 2009. ameia’s piece, “to follow an invisible creek: in search of a decolonial sound walk praxis,” was written as part of their final...

New Publication by Clancy Wilmott and Alexis Wood Argues Base Maps Create a Cartographic Terra Infirma

July 31, 2024

A new article by Assistant Professor Clancy Wilmott and Geography PhD student Alexis Wood investigates the ways in which base maps are a fundamental, but under-recognised, starting point for planners, architects, cartographers and geographic information scientists in urban spatial planning and decision-making contexts. Focusing on the case study of a collaborative mapping project with the Wood Street Commons, an unhoused community in West Oakland, it...

Associate Professor Fields Published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers

September 27, 2023

Congratulations to Associate Professor Desiree Fields on her new paper, co-authored with two students in the Department of City and Regional Planning, titled "Platform Firms, Commercial Real Estate Cycles and San Francisco’s Growth as a Tech Cluster, 2008–2020". This article uses the lens of the commercial real estate market to examine the urbanization of digital technology companies in San Francisco in the years between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. During this period, the rise of digital...

We are Hiring! Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Cluster Hire in Asian American and Pacific Islander Transpacific Futures

July 22, 2024

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...