Gohar Dashti, Home, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 2020
Public Research • Policy • Strategy || Agri-Food & Environmental Systems • Racial Capitalism || Justice • Liberation
I am currently a 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 program strategy work, I center the political economy and racial politics of U.S. and global 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 resource shifting within and through 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 strategies. I have also published my independent research in the journals of Comparative American Studies, Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited volume, The Gospel of Work and Money: A Global History of Industrial Education.
Across my research, teaching, and program strategy work, I center the political economy and racial politics of U.S. and global 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 resource shifting within and through 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 strategies. I have also published my independent research in the journals of Comparative American Studies, Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited volume, The Gospel of Work and Money: A Global History of Industrial Education.
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University of California, Berkeley | 460 Stephens Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720
University of California, Berkeley | 460 Stephens Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720