UC Berkeley Geography

Fear of a Dead White Planet Fear of a Dead White Planet asks: How does one study when the planet is on fire? The More Worlds Collective challenges the contemporary rush to planetary t

Check out "Fear of a Dead White Planet," co-edited by Geography Associate Professor Jake Kosek, now available to read for free! read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Clancy Wilmott talks with Berkeley Social Sciences about the promise and pitfalls of AI tools ls.berkeley.edu/news/berkele...

Cultivating (Bio)Culture with Fire - Terralingua Annabelle Law joins the Fork Mono Tribe's cultural burns in California to learn how fire can promote biocultural abundance and community.

As California grapples with conflictual views of fire, Annabelle Law’s (BA '24) essay offers a powerful reframe: fire, when guided by Indigenous knowledge, can be a source of healing and abundance, renewing both ecosystems and communities. terralingua.org/stories/cult...

Geography Professor Kurt Cuffey with Geography student Char Tomlinson in the Kanchenjunga Himalaya of Nepal

Glaciers are more than stunning landscapes—they hold vital clues about our planet’s past and future climate. Professor Kurt Cuffey explains how glaciology reveals critical insights into global warming, from polar amplification to rising sea levels. Read the whole story: bit.ly/41MI01U

Something of particular relevance to geography is the migration of quilts, quiltmakers, and quilting knowledge in the Second Great Migration, and as the exhibition text notes, quilting's "unique capacity for connecting kin across time and distance". bampfa.org/program/rout...

BAMPFA's Elaine Yau took faculty, staff, & students on a special tour of "Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California," an exhibition that speaks to many of the themes within Black geographies.

New students, new picnic tables, new beginnings! Today’s new student orientations were full of community — lunch on the balcony at picnic tables hand-built by Dr. Jake Kosek and transfer students connecting with alumni who’ve been exactly where they are now. Here’s to the start of a new journey! 💛🐻💙

🌎 Coming Fall 2025! Dive into powerful global narratives with GEOG 170: Writing the World — a brand new course that explores how influential written stories shape and challenge our views on identity, culture, and power. Register NOW! #ucberkeleygeography
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Congratulations to the Class of 2025🎓 We're so proud of everything you’ve achieved and we can't wait to see what you do in the world! 🌎💙💛 #BerkeleyGrad #ClassOf2025 #Geography

Join us Friday, May 2 @ 3pm for a powerful convo w/ sexuality educator Ericka Hart + cultural preservationist Ebony Donnley aka Deep East Oakland’s own DJ Sure Love to Ball — hosts of the Hoodrat to Headwrap Podcast! We'll see you there!
Click here to RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/sinners-bl...

Learn more about the Golden State with GEOG N50AC! Explore the truth about California this summer during Summer Session D. Secure your spot now! geography.berkeley.edu/courses/geog...

Social, Spatial, Ecological, and Racial Fixes in New Deal South Carolina: Interview with Morgan Vickers - Social Science Matrix This episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Morgan P. Vickers, an Assistant Professor of Race/Racialization in the Department of Law, Societies & Justice at the University of Washing...

Interested in Social, Spatial, Ecological, and Racial Fixes in New Deal South Carolina? Listen to Ph.D. ‘24 Graduate Morgan P. Vickers’s podcast episode with the Social Science Matrix! Available now on matrix.berkeley.edu/research-art... or Apple Podcasts!

Phd candidate Andrea Lara-Garcia has been awarded the Mentored Research Award for the 2025-2026 academic year! This fellowship supports diverse doctoral students in developing advanced research skills through faculty-guided pre-dissertation research. Congrats, Andrea!

Huge congrats to Kendrick Manymules for receiving the UC Dissertation-Year Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year! This fellowship provides financial support to help diverse doctoral students focus on completing their dissertations. We’re so proud of you, Kendrick!

Join us for our final Colloquium event of the year! We’re finishing off strong with Sarah Elwood of @uofwa.bsky.social THIS WEDNESDAY, April 23, @ 3:30. She will be discussing ‘Stop the Sweeps: Computational Urbanisms & Insurgent Mediations of the City.’
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Huge congrats to students Cole Haddock and Maria Toldi for winning The Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize for their project Swept off the Map. This project will be published by #StreetSpirit. For more information: research.berkeley.edu/stronach-pri...

We are proud to announce that april l. graham-jackson, Geography PhD alum ‘24 has been awarded a 2025 ACLS Fellowship from @acls1919.bsky.social! graham-jackson has been recognized as one of 62 outstanding scholars from a pool of over 2,300 applicants through a multi-stage process! #ACLS

Provenance: The Value of People and Things In an Indian scrap-metal yard, anxieties about stolen materials compel traders to interrogate the biographies and social relations of people that t...

Interest in theories of alienation, value, and agency in archeology? Join the weekly Colloquium with Andrew Sanchez to learn more! We’ll see you today @ 3:30!

Geography Ph.D. Candidate Andrea Lara-Garcia won the Legal Geographies Specialty Group award for Best Graduate Student Presentation for "Who Owns the Border?: Contested Territorialities in the Arizona and Texas Borderlands.” Way to go, Andrea! #AAG2025

Ph.D. Candidate Lee Crandall won the Digital Geographies Specialty group award for Best Graduate Student Paper Award for their paper "Plotting cryptoeconomic imaginaries and counterplotting the network state." Congrats, Lee! #AAG2025

Huge congratulations to Geography Ph.D. Candidate Jimena Perez for winning the AAG Latinx Geographies Speciality Group's 2025 LxG Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper "Restorying the L.A. River." #AAG2025

BUGs (Berkeley United Geographers) is hosting an event TODAY with professors from our very own department, Sociology, City Planning, Media Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Italian Studies. Join us for snacks and panels today April 9th at 6pm in McCone Hall 575 or Zoom rb.gy/ehi9xv! See you there!

The Joy of Pests: encountering autonomy, passion, and death in UK professional pest management Professional pest management - the deliberate exclusion and removal of unwanted nonhuman life - is a form of overlooked and undervalued ‘dirty wo...

Our Colloquia Series is so thrilled to host Hannah Fair of
@unisouthampton.bsky.social TODAY at 3:30 as she reveals an unexpected and unalienated ‘joy of pests’ that is grounded in symbiotic more-than-human autonomy. See you there!
For more information: events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/2...

Join us March 19 @ 3:30 to discuss “‘Sounding’ Celebration and Reparatory Justice Through Spaces of Feeling: the Case of Jamaica” with Dr. Sonjah Stanley Niaah of the University of West Indies, Mona. See you there!
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By donating to Geography during #CalBigGive, you'll provide critical funding for undergraduate research, enabling students like Tatiana Butte to explore their passions, gain hands-on experience, and create work that drives meaningful change. givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...

Garcia argues we must attend to the history of Spanish colonialism, Mexican ownership, & enduring Indigenous resistance to colonialism, along with the physical geography, to appreciate how states developed different strategies & tactics for managing the US-Mexico border.

Your donation during #CalBigGive supports students like Andrea Lara Garcia, a Geography Ph.D. student who conducts critical borderlands scholarship focused on the Southwest United States. givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...

It's here! #CalBigGive, the annual, online fundraising event uniting the Cal community to support our remarkable students, groundbreaking research, and transformative programs that make our university shine 🌟 Support Geography student research by donating here: givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/9...

We are thrilled to host @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social PhD alum Dr. Morgan Williams on March 12 @ 3:30 to discuss “The Morphology and Mythology of Nuclear Waste Containment in the American West.” More detail here [https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/283606]. See you there!

REGISTRATION: 3/6/25, 12pm: Matrix on Point: Mainstreaming Psychedelics Psychedelics are steadily moving from the fringes of counterculture to the heart of mainstream society, driven by a growing body of research and shifting public perception. Once relegated to undergrou...

Join the Social Science Matrix on March 6 @ 12pm to discuss "Mainstreaming Psychedelics." The panel features Diana Negrin, David Presti, and more!
Co-sponsored by the Center for Research on Social Change, the English Department, and @scipsychedelics.bsky.social
Register now rb.gy/93njn7 !