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.
They discuss how redevelopment & gentrification shape who can remain in a neighborhood and how SF’s environmental & social history continues to shape the urban landscape today. Here, the class sits in front of the former Pacific Stock Exchange, now an Equinox gym.
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.
This collection is meant to be read and shared. Visit 583 Seminar Room, sign out a book, and return it when done so others can continue to learn through Don’s generosity. The collection is one way he remains among us. 🖤
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…
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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 🎧🎙️
Master the art (and politics) of social media in GEOG 128, Short Form Video for Place Based Storytelling with @lakitalki.bsky.social. Learn how platforms shape storytelling and public discourse, then create short-form videos from script to final edit with clarity and purpose.
“The ships, the trucks, the loading docks are containers of immiserated labor—and therefore, containers of revolutionary potential.” Charmaine Chua challenges us to reconsider the ordinary logistics landscapes that surround us. placesjournal.org/article/th…
What comes to mind when you think of the U.S.–Mexico border? This summer, challenge the headlines and explore the rich, complex realities of borderlands communities beyond stereotypes of crisis and conflict in GEOG 170: Scaling the US-Mexico Border with Andrea Lara-Garcia.