About the Speaker
Danika Cooper is associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores how geopolitical agendas often determine relationships with our environments. Her scholarly and creative work explore alternatives to Euro-Western understandings of the aridlands, and in particular, offers multiple ways of knowing, being, and engaging with dry landscapes to better inform current environmental and landscape architecture discourse and practice. She has published and exhibited her work across the world, and has practiced architecture and landscape architecture both in the United States and in India.
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies