Gohar Dashti, Home, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 2020
|| Scholar • Educator • Policy Strategist || Political Economy of Race, Agri-Food Systems, and the Climate Crisis ||
I am currently a Senior Policy Analyst with the Global Justice program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at Williams College. I hold a Ph.D. in Society and Environment (Geography, American Studies, Ethnic Studies) from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM) at UC Berkeley.
Across my research, teaching, and policy strategy work, I center the U.S. and global political economy of race, agri-food systems, and environmental change, and their relationship to antiracist, anticolonial, and revolutionary-socialist struggles from the 20th century on into the present. Such work is driven by my passion for research-based community building and political education within and through institutions of higher education, and on issues of racial, economic, environmental, and climate justice.
As part of the Othering & Belonging Institute, I have led and co-authored reports on agri-food and environmental policy, state and corporate power, and U.S. and global climate impacts and resilience strategies. I have also published my research in the journals of Comparative American Studies, Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and in the forthcoming edited volume, The Gospel of Work and Money: A Global History of Industrial Education, and co-authored and forthcoming edited volume, Love, Knowledge, Revolution: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Reader.
I am available for speaking engagements about my research, writing, policy strategy, and more.
Across my research, teaching, and policy strategy work, I center the U.S. and global political economy of race, agri-food systems, and environmental change, and their relationship to antiracist, anticolonial, and revolutionary-socialist struggles from the 20th century on into the present. Such work is driven by my passion for research-based community building and political education within and through institutions of higher education, and on issues of racial, economic, environmental, and climate justice.
As part of the Othering & Belonging Institute, I have led and co-authored reports on agri-food and environmental policy, state and corporate power, and U.S. and global climate impacts and resilience strategies. I have also published my research in the journals of Comparative American Studies, Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and in the forthcoming edited volume, The Gospel of Work and Money: A Global History of Industrial Education, and co-authored and forthcoming edited volume, Love, Knowledge, Revolution: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Reader.
I am available for speaking engagements about my research, writing, policy strategy, and more.
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University of California, Berkeley | 460 Stephens Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720
University of California, Berkeley | 460 Stephens Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720