Jesse D. Williamson, Ph.D., M.C.P.

Jesse Williamson

Lecturer

Education

2022, University of California at Berkeley. Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Master in City Planning (Industrial Ecology Emphasis).

1997, University of California at Berkeley. Bachelor of Arts (African American Studies & Human Biodynamics).

Research Interests / Specializations:

Critical Race Theory, Industrial Ecology, Political Ecology, Agroecology, STS

Selected Publications

C.N.E.Corbin, Guillermo R. Douglass-Jaimes, Jesse Williamson, Ashton Wesner, Margot Higgins, and Jenny L. Palomino, with contributors Melina Packer and Frances Roberts-Gregory “(Re)Thinking the Tenure Process by Embracing Diversity in Scholars and Scholarship.” University of California Student Association Graduate Policy Journal, Vol. 1, October 29, 2015.

Andrade, K., Corbin, C., Diver, S., Eitzel, M.V., Jesse Williamson, Brashares, J. and Fortmann, L. “Finding Your Way in the Interdisciplinary Forest: Notes on Educating Future Conservation Practitioners.” Biodiversity and Conservation. October, 2014.

Honors and Awards

Housing and Urban Development Fellow, 2000

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2011

Ford Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2011

Recent Teaching:

ESPM 163AC: Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment

ESPM 155AC: Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems

ENVS 127/227: Advanced Community Based Participatory Research (SJSU)

ESPM 168: Political Ecology

E-mail: jwilliamson@berkeley.edu

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