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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 

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Edward Martin

Geography PhD Student

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

Isaiah Blake

Geography PhD Student

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

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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Sibhale Ndwayana

Geography PhD Candidate

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

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

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