Faculty Affiliates
Charisma Acey
City and Regional Planning
Access to water, sanitation, and other basic services, local and regional environmental sustainability, public participation and collaborative governance
Christopher Ansell
Political Science
Public policy and urban governance processes, organization theory, public administration, political sociology and network analysis, Western Europe
Sarah Anzia
Public Policy and Political Science
U.S. local and state politics, public sector unions, women in politics, public employee pensions
Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Multi-hazard stressors on geotechnical engineering infrastructure; lifeline response to natural disasters; designing, monitoring and reinforcing lifelines; advanced sensing; vibrations from pile driving in dense urban environments
Sai Balakrishnan
City and Regional Planning
Sai Balakrishnan is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, in a joint appointment with DCRP and GMS (Global Metropolitan Studies). Her research and teaching broadly pivot around global urban inequalities, with a particular focus on urbanization and planning institutions in the global south, and on the spatial politics of land-use and property. She has worked as an urban planner in the United States, India, and the United Arab Emirates, and as a consultant to the UN-HABITAT, Nairobi. Her book, Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations along Urban Corridors in India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) explores new forms of urbanization along infrastructural / economic corridors in liberalizing India. Balakrishnan is currently working on two books: i) global-comparative research on the transfer of development rights (TDRs), a new land (and air) commodification instrument, in Mumbai, New York and São Paulo, and ii) in collaboration with historian Arindam Dutta (MIT), a spatial mapping of infrastructural inequalities and the new geographies of uneven development in post-liberalization India.
Alexandre Bayen
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Modelling and control of distributed parameters systems: large scale infrastructure systems, transportation, water distribution
Anna Brand
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
Anna Livia Brand is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Her research focuses on the historical urban and environmental development and contemporary planning and landscape design challenges in Black mecca neighborhoods in the American North and South. Anna’s work examined how redevelopment paradigms in the 21st century reflect ongoing racialization and the compounding landscapes of racial capitalism. In her scholarship and creative work, she also gives focus to reparative and abolitionist imaginaries that counter racial oppression. Her work on post-Katrina New Orleans examines how racial geographies have been reconstructed after the storm through disciplines like urban planning.
Teresa Caldeira
City and Regional Planning
Comparative urban studies, social theory, ethnography and qualitative methodology, Brazil, democratization, cultural movements
Maya E. Carrasquillo
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental and reparative justice, green infrastructure and stormwater management, anti-racism in engineering education, food-energy-water systems, community engagement and development
Anthony Cascardi
Rhetoric
Literature and philosophy, aesthetic theory, the novel, early modern Europe
Ralph Catalano
Public Health
Population stressors for gestation, maternal health
Robert Cervero
City and Regional Planning
(Emeritus)
Transportation Planning; Transportation and Land Use; Infrastructure Planning; Growth Management planning; International Development
Karen Chapple
City and Regional Planning
(Emerita)
Housing, community and economic development, regional planning, residential and commercial/industrial displacement
Sharad Chari
Geography
Social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor and work, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic humanities, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Daniel Chatman
City and Regional Planning
Land use and development policies, public transportation services, travel patterns and residential choices of immigrants to the U.S.
Karen Christensen
City and Regional Planning
(Emerita)
Intergovernmental Relations, Evaluation, Housing Policy, Organizational Theory, Planning Theory
Daniel Aldana Cohen
Sociology
climate emergency; political economy; eco-apartheid; inequalities of race and class; urban studies; political sociology
Stephen Collier
City and Regional Planning
Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation; infrastructure and politics; neoliberalism and governmental rationality; emergency government in the United States; urban vulnerability and resilience; climate change
Greig Crysler
Architecture
Urban spatial politics, activism and cultural identity, queer culture, neoliberal globalization, nationalism, collective violence
Elizabeth Deakin
City and Regional Planning
(Emerita)
Transportation policy, planning and analysis; land use policy and planning; legal and regulatory issues; institutions and organizations; energy and the environment, new technologies
Iryna Dronova
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Urbanization, remote sensing, spatial analysis, urban heat exposure, green infrastructure, resilience, restoration, wetland and urban landscape ecology
Peter Evans
Sociology
(Emeritus)
Globalization, Labor Movements, States, Development
Lia Fernald
Public Health
Children, health inequality, immigrant health, nutrition, public health
Desiree Fields
Associate Professor, Geography
I am an economic geographer and critical urban scholar, and I study how financial processes and digital technologies are shifting the terrain of the housing question in the 21st century. In addition to teaching in Global Metropolitan Studies and my home department of Geography, I am also a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation and an editor at the journal Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Graduate courses: GMS200: Histories, Theories, and Methods of Global Metropolitan Studies; GEOG247: Digital Transformations in Land, Housing, and Property
Personal website: https://www.desireefields.org/
Frederico Finan
Economics
Applied microeconomics, development economics, political economy
Daniel Fisher
Anthropology
Social-cultural anthropology, media, music and sound, photography and cinema, Australia
Karen Trapenberg Frick
City and Regional Planning
Transportation policy and planning, Major infrastructure projects, American politics and conservative views about planning
Mia Fuller
Italian Studies
Architecture and city planning in the Italian colonies
Ashok Gadgil
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Drinking water treatment, innovation, social placement of technology, systems thinking, energy efficiency, global impact, developing world
Rebecca Goldstein
UC Berkeley School of Law
Race and ethnic politics, urban politics, bureaucratic politics, policing, criminal justice reform, quantitative methods
Marta González
City and Regional Planning / Civil and Environmental Engineering
Urban sciences, Social networks, People and the built and natural environment
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Agriculture and Resource Economics
Development economics, urban economics, subway infrastructure, rural land titling, road infrastructure, crime, and political economy
M. Paz Gutierrez
Architecture
Natural materials innovation, resilient buildings, multiscale design
Zoé Hamstead
City and Regional Planning
Environmental planning; climate planning; sustainability and resilience; environmental and climate justice; geographic and spatial analysis; urban policy and political economy; environmental governance; community engagement
Michael Hanemann
Agricultural and Resource Economics
(Emeritus)
Modeling individual choice behavior, demand forecasting, conservation, environmental regulation and economic valuation
Mark Hansen
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Transportation economics, policy and planning, air transportation, public transportation
David Harding
Sociology
Poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration and prisoner reentry, education, neighborhood effects, urban communities, adolescence
Eva Harris
Public Health
Molecular virology, pathogenesis, immunology, epidemiology, scientific capacity building in developing countries
David Henkin
History
America since 1607: 19th Century, urban, cultural
James Holston
Anthropology
Cities and citizenship, political theory, democracy and law, planning and architecture, urban ethnography, Brazil, the Americas
Arpad Horvath
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Energy, climate, civil infrastructure, engineering, project management
You-tien Hsing
Geography
Political economy of development in East Asia, power and space, cultural and environmental politics, urbanization, China
Daniel Kammen
Energy and Resources Group
Renewable energy systems, health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use, international R&D policy, climate change, energy forecasting and risk analysis
Adib Kanafani
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Transportation planning and systems analysis, air transportation
Randy Katz
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Trusted and reliable network computing, smart cities, data science, smart buildings, smart grids
G. Mathias Kondolf
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
Cities and hydrology, river-city relations, urban river revitalization, fluvial geomorphology, environmental planning
Michel Laguerre
African American Studies
Information technology, the American Metropolis, globalization, global governance, diasporic communities, multiculturalism, urban neighborhoods in US, France, Berlin and London
Zachary Lamb
City and Regional Planning
Urban climate change adaptation, flooding, urban design for climate justice, affordable housing, shared equity housing
Amy Lerman
Public Policy; Political Science
Politics, criminal justice, privatization, public opinion, and political behavior
Samuel R. Lucas
Sociology
Inequality, discrimination, education, tracking, college entry, effectively maintained inequality theory, research methods, sample design, causality, epistemologies, agent-based modeling, and research statistics
Elizabeth Macdonald
City and Regional Planning
Urban design, history of urban form, sustainable urban form, street and public space design, waterfront promenades
Rachel Morello-Frosch
Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Structural determinants of environmental health disparities, air pollution and perinatal outcomes, environmental justice, social movements, science, and environmental health policy-making
Michael Nylan
History
Water, transport, monuments, urban China (early empires, 11th century, contemporary)
Aihwa Ong
Anthropology
Southeast Asia, China, modernity, cities, governance, science, technology and society studies, contemporary art
Alison Post
Associate Professor, Political Science
Post was hired through the Global Metropolitan Studies initiative to enhance the university’s strength in comparative urban studies. Her research lies at the intersection of comparative urban politics and comparative political economy, focusing on Latin America and the developing world more broadly. It examines the political and institutional factors affecting vital urban services such as water and sanitation, mass transit, and electricity. She has received U.C. Berkeley’s campus-wide Carol D. Soc award for mentoring graduate students. She is one of the primary instructors for the core courses for the Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies (GMS 200 and GMS201).
Isha Ray
Energy and Resources Group
Equity, affordability and access to water in low-income regions, gender, sanitation
Lee Riley
Public Health
Molecular epidemiology, drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, tuberculosis, rapid diagnostic test development, field epidemiology and global health research focused on diseases of urban slums
Danielle Rivera
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Environmental planning, community development, environmental justice, stormwater management, urban design
Daniel Rodriguez
City and Regional Planning
Public transportation, urban sustainability, urban health, environment and health impacts of traveler behaviors
Martin Sánchez-Jankowski
Sociology
Poverty, gangs, crime, violence, race and ethnic relations
Stefano Schiavon
Architecture
Sustainable building design, energy efficiency, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, energy simulation, post-occupancy evaluation
Raja Sengupta
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Transportation, wireless communications and inertial navigation for vehicle systems
Claire Snell-Rood
Public Health
Family and community influences on health promotion, gender and mental health, social inequality, stigma, and health, rural U.S. and South Asia
Kenichi Soga
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Infrastructure sensing, geotechnical structures, ground engineering, soil and granular mechanics, deep geomechanics, energy and engineering sustainability, soil-bio interaction, geoenvironmental engineering
Michael Southworth
City and Regional Planning
(Emeritus)
Morphology of the post-industrial city; street design and regulation; design of public space; analysis, design, and management of large scale urban environmental quality; user needs assessment; children’s conception and use of the city
Mark Stacey
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Climate change, coastal erosion, critical infrastructure resiliency, fluid dynamics
Brandi Summers
Geography
Urban space, gentrification, aesthetics, race, racism, identity
Nicolas Tackett
History
Chinese elite society (9th to 11th century), Late Tang capital cities, Song-Liao border during the 11th century, death and death rituals
Nick Tsivanidis
Economics and Haas School of Business
urban economics, development economics, economic geography, applied microeconomics
Cihan Tugal
Sociology
Political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography
Loïc Wacquant
Sociology
“Urban inequality and marginality, incarnation and habitus, the penal state, ethnoracial domination, politics of reason, classical and contemporary social theory “
Paul Waddell
City and Regional Planning
Urban economics, land use and transportation, urban simulation, urban informatics, visualization
Joan Walker
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Walker was hired through the Global Metropolitan Studies initiative to enhance the university’s strength in urban infrastructure systems. Her research focuses on transportation systems, with a particular focus on behavioral modeling. She works to improve the models that are used for transportation planning, policy, and operations. Walker currently serves as a Co-Director of GMS, and she is one of the primary instructors for the core courses for the Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies (GMS 200 and GMS201).
Richard Walker
Geography
(Ermeritus)
Human geography, political economy, global capitalism
Jennifer Wolch
City and Regional Planning
(Emerita)
Sustainable urbanism, urban design and public health, homeless and human service delivery, animal-society relations
Winnie Wong
Rhetoric
Labor and creativity, modern and contemporary art, intellectual property, China, consumer cultures, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen
Wen-hsin Yeh
History
Asian history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, Shanghai