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Desiree Fields is Associate Professor of Geography and Department Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a faculty affiliate with Global Metropolitan Studies and the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, and co-leads an interdisciplinary research group focused on digital transformations in global land, housing, and property.
Her educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2013)
Fields is a critical economic geographer and urban scholar investigating how property, finance, and technology reproduce social and spatial hierarchies in the United States. Her work centers on economic and technological changes that unevenly restructure urban space and social relations of land and housing. Key research areas include housing financialization, digital geographies, and the 'automated landlord' concept, examining digital real estate investment platforms and digital capitalists' urban-scale experiments in rural landscapes. She analyzes how these processes create stratified financial subjectivities and challenge existing urban frameworks through algorithmic governance and 'blank slate urbanism'.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
Fields serves as editor for Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space and Housing, Theory and Society, and is a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation. She teaches courses including Critical Economic Geographies (GEOG 110) and Platform Geographies (GEOG 145), and co-leads research initiatives exploring digital transformations in land and property systems.
