Announcements

Geography Undergraduate William Fei Wins Honorable Mention for "A Celebration and Archive of San Pablo Avenue"

April 9, 2024

San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, CA

William Fei, Geograpahy undergraduate, has won an honorable mention from the Cartography and Geographic Information Society for his interactive map website, "A Celebration and Archive of San Pablo Avenue." Fei's site was created for his final...

New Markers Remember Enslaved People Brought to Texas by Sea

April 18, 2024

Tianna Bruno stands next to a marker dedicated to enslaved peoples brought to Texas by sea

“Between 1817 and 1840, there was legal, and extralegal, trafficking of enslaved Africans into these waters and onto this land. . . . We want to remember them today.”

In an article featured in...

Research on Atmospheric Rivers Makes Headlines Across News Sources

April 25, 2024

Associate Adjunct Professor Dave Wahl's research group has made headlines with their work on atmospheric rivers. After the group published a paper in Nature, their findings were shared across news sources, including the SF Chronicle,...

Associate Professor Brandi Summers Interviewed by Berkeley Social Sciences

April 25, 2024

Members of the Archive of Urban Futures team in front of Mom's House in West Oakland

Associate Professor Summers spoke to Berkeley Social Sciences recently about her career, her work with students, and her work to advance Oakland, where she grew up. Read her entire interview...

Eli Perloff, Geography Senior, Wins the Eisner Prize

April 30, 2024

early morning at a BART station, cars parked, the tracks visible above

Congratulations to Eli Perloff, Geography senior, who has been selected for the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus, the Eisner Prize! Eli's winning work, a short film titled (In)Between Spaces, was created in Lecturer Joel...

Erendida Corona and Ally Matheson, Geography Undergraduates, Present at Cal Day

April 13, 2024

students on stage presenting to a large room full of attendees

Big thanks to Erendida Corona and Ally Matheson, Geography undergraduates who represented Berkeley Geography well during the panel "Finding Your Academic Path at Berkeley" on Cal Day for incoming first-year students. As part of the ACES panel, they talked about finding a community at UC Berkeley and emphasized how being a...

Antonio Gramsci and Current Conjuncture Conference Recordings

April 19, 2024
We are writing to share the videos from the “Antonio Gramsci and the Current Conjuncture Conference” held in McCone Hall, UC Berkeley on December 2, 2023, which are now available on the Trinity Social Justice Institute website. Please find it here. We regret that the last two panels are not available due to technical difficulties. Apparently, the camera simply quit recording and we were unable to salvage despite our...

The Borders of Paradise, a new documentary by Geography undergraduate, Fraser Byers

March 21, 2024

Migrant on raft out at sea

The Borders of Paradise is an intimate dive into Ventimiglia, the final Italian town before the French border and is where 30,000 asylum seekers annually arrive in an attempt to enter the rest of Europe. Produced by Fraser Byers, Geography undergraduate, the film captures the physical and psychological...

Dr. Stephanie Pau Joins UC Berkeley Geography Faculty

December 20, 2023

We are excited to share the wonderful news that Dr. Stephanie Pau will officially join UC Berkeley as a jointly appointed Associate Professor in Geography and ESPM starting January 1, 2024! Join us in welcoming Stephanie to McCone Hall and we look forward to celebrating her arrival in the Spring semester.

Jovan Scott Lewis Promoted to Full Professor

December 1, 2023

Jovan Scott Lewis

We are excited to share the wonderful news that Jovan Scott Lewis has been promoted to full Professor. Congratulations for the much deserved recognition of your extraordinary scholarly achievements and service, Jovan!