Desiree Fields is Associate Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley. She is an economic geographer and critical urban scholar. Her research program addresses how Wall Street and Silicon Valley are jointly transforming property relations, urbanization, and economic subjectivity. She has published widely in leading human geography and urban studies journals, including Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning A, and Urban Studies. Dr. Fields was a fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in 2023-24. She is a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation and an editor at Environment and Planning A and Housing, Theory, and Society.

Education and background

I earned my PhD in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and my BA in Psychology at University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to UC Berkeley, I was a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York.