Justin Hosbey

Justin Hosbey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning within the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. His interdisciplinary work bridges Black studies, cultural geography, and spatial humanities to examine Black community resistance in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mississippi Delta regions.

Dr. Hosbey's research centers on the cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, and racial capitalism. He employs ethnographic methods combined with digital spatial humanities to investigate how southern Black communities articulate citizenship demanding the interruption of racial capitalism and ecocide. His current project analyzes post-Katrina privatization of neighborhood schools in Black New Orleans, documenting how these policies fracture yet fail to destroy Black placemaking practices.

His publication trends reveal deep engagement with Black spatial practices across historical and contemporary contexts. Through interdisciplinary collaborations, he maps Black ecologies while examining displacement, marronage, and heritage preservation. His work consistently connects archival research with community-based spatial analysis, appearing in venues spanning Black studies journals, digital history publications, and urban anthropology forums.