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who we are
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Berkeley Black Geographies is a community of faculty and student scholars committed to materialist Black Study. Spatial processes are central to this study, but more important are the terms through which a grounded sense of Black life is articulated and understood. 

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Jovan Scott Lewis

Professor of Geography

Black Geographies, Economic geography, Caribbean Thought, decoloniality, reparations and repair, poverty and inequality, race, Caribbean and African-American communities 

Tianna Bruno

Assistant Professor of Geography

Environmental justice, Black environmental geographies, critical physical geography, political ecology, Black spatial and ecological relationships, dendrochronology, environmental records

Isaiah Blake

Geography PhD Student

Black Geographies, critical disaster studies, Black Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Ecologies, climate resilience and adaptation  

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William Carter

Geography PhD Candidate

Atlantic History, Historiography, Caribbeanist Historiography, Aquatic History, Political Ecology, Riverine and Littoral Spaces (West/Central Africa), Race (Blackness), Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Political Theory

Adam Hasan

Geography PhD Student

Political economy; agrarian studies; Black geographies; financialization; postcolonial studies; sovereignty; infrastructure; SWANA (Lebanon)

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Tamara Jamil

Geography PhD Candidate

Carceral geographies; racial capitalism; Black geographies; critical cartography; abolitionist futures; aesthetics of order

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Edward Martin

Geography PhD Student

Black Geographies, Racial capitalism, Space Making, Development politics, West Africa, Senegal

Jasmine Martin

Geography PhD Student

Black Geographies, Black Atlantic Ecologies, Human-Non-Human Intimacies, Environment, Planning, Afro-Caribbean Futurity

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Jimena Perez

Geography PhD Student

Decolonial and abolition geographies, environmental justice, multispecies care and kinship, cultural knowledge, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, Black, Indigenous, and Latinx geographies, and Los Angeles River

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Maria Pettis

Geography PhD Candidate

Black-Land Relations, Black Ecologies, and Biogeography, New Media and Geographic Representation / Augmented and Mixed Reality, The Lower Mississippi River Delta, Environmental History

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Sibhale Ndwayana

Geography PhD Candidate

Black Geographies, Black Atlantic Geographies, Black Geosonic Epistemologies, Tidalectics, Lusophone, Imperialism, Colonialism, Capitalism

Maya Sapienza

Geography PhD Student

gentrification, Black identity formation, bureaucracy, geographies of urban justice, struggles over public and private space

Zein Dahir

Geography PhD Student

Black Geographies

Kaya Herron

Geography PhD Student

Black Geographies

Ray Hector

Geography PhD Student

Political ecology, environmental justice, extractivism, Black geographies, Black ecologies, plantation colonialism, modernity-coloniality-decoloniality (MCD), critical social theory, underdevelopment, critical physical geography

Juleon Robinson

Geography PhD Candidate

Black geographies, social movements, police/prison abolition, racial capitalism

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