UC Berkeley's Geography Department is a leading center of scholarship about earth’s landscapes and human relationships to the environment.
McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA
Joined September 2016
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Congratulations to Sibahle Ndwayana, recipient of a @WennerGrenOrg Dissertation Fieldwork Grant! The award supports his research, “Sonic Territories: Sounding a Black Sense of Place from Santiago, Cabo Verde,” exploring how sound shapes place, belonging, and Blackness.
Congrats to Geography PhD candidate Clara Pérez Medina on "Framing Displacement, Forcing Perspective" in Antipode! It shows how news photos of Oakland homelessness cast Black residents as "out of place," hiding racist housing policy. Here is the link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Congratulations to Professor John Chiang, elected a 2026 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)—given to 0.1% of the AGU membership. Chiang is recognized for his contributions to understanding large-scale climate dynamics, variability and change, and paleoclimate. 🌎
Students in Seth Lunine’s Urban Field Study spend each Friday in the field, exploring the Bay Area by foot and learning to read urban landscapes. Last week, students walked through downtown SF & SoMa, looking for layers of history in the city’s streets, buildings, and waterfront.
We're hiring a tenure-track position in Impacts of Global Environmental Change at the rank of Assistant Professor! Check out the job description and apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
We are honored to announce the installation of the Donald S. Moore Geography Library in 583 Seminar Room. This collection of several hundred volumes is Don’s gift to our community—a living archive of Marxist, anti-colonial, and anti-racist thought. 📚
Beyond his brilliant scholarship on spatiality, power, and race in Zimbabwe, Don was an unfailingly generous mentor, confidant, and friend who pushed us all to engage both texts and the world more deeply, radically, and humanely.
What can a map tell us about a language, a landscape, and a family history? 🗺️ GEOG senior Christina Carasis is using mapping and community-based research to explore Arvanitika, an endangered language in Greece that is part of her own family history. tinyurl.com/besfsckh
The geographic community mourn the loss of one of its most beloved alumni, Dr. Sarah E. Knuth. Her wide-reaching and impactful scholarly work covered both theoretical and practical approaches to energy transitions. Sarah is remembered as an extraordinarily bright, warm, and
welcoming presence during her years in graduate school, a community mainstay for multiple cohorts of geographers, and an optimistic yet practical voice for building better futures. A fund has been established in her honor: secure.actblue.com/donate/cl…
#UCUES is a biennial survey of undergraduates across the University of California, providing insights into student experiences from basic needs insecurities to campus climate to advising experiences. Share your feedback and win gift cards! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Berkeley Space Station is the first Geography dept radio station in the country, giving students portfolio-ready examples of professional media production that lead directly to internships and jobs in broadcasting, journalism, and production. Tune in 📻 spacestation.fm
Congrats to PhD candidate Alex Chow on receiving a dissertation fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation to examine how competing economic and political systems shaped understandings of freedom, democracy, and sovereignty in Hong Kong from the postwar era through 2019.
Congrats to Diana Negrin, who has been awarded the @PhiBetaKappa Teaching Excellence Award! The PBK Northern California Association is one of the largest PBK alumni associations in the country, and the Teaching Excellence Award is given to teachers nominated by their students 💛
Take a step toward your major or transfer goals and enroll in GEOG courses this summer! Our summer courses are open to everyone and are transferable to any UC campus. Explore our course offerings here: tinyurl.com/yb5uuvwf
“Swept Off The Map,” created by Maria Toldi & Cole Haddock for @StSpiritNews, is an investigative series that documents the scope, scale, and consequences of encampment sweeps in Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland. Funded by the Judith Lee Stronach Prize. sweptoffthemap.com/
Undergraduate students in @lakitalki's class "Audio Narratives of the Bay Area" had the chance to visit @KQEDnews and hear from @DanaHCronin @NataliaVNavarro and @LomeliCabrera. Students also shared what they have been working on for their final projects in the course 🎧🎙️
