C.N.E. Corbin

PhD, Environmental Science, Policy and Management; University of California, Berkeley

BA, African American Studies; University of California, Berkeley

BA, Media Studies; University of California, Berkeley

AA, Liberal Arts; Berkeley City College

Race, Class, City Planning, Green Spaces, Green Cities, Gentrification, Urban Parks, (Urban) Political Ecology, Media, and Science Fiction (Utopian/ Dystopian/Speculative/Visionary Fiction/ Afrofuturism)

My research examines the relationships between society and nature within the built environment by investigating the concept of the green city within the United States. As an urban environmentalist and political ecologist, my work focuses on how environmental policies and practices in cities impact low-income neighborhoods and communities of color and their access to public green spaces, urban nature. The aim of my research is to illuminate how historical processes of urbanization and current urban environmental policies, at scale, are impacting the lived experiences of the most vulnerable residents right now, and what that could mean for future populations living in green cities.

 

1. C.N.E. Corbin,“Wakanda! Take the Wheel! Visions of a Black Green City.” Planning Theory and Practice. Race and Spatial Imaginary: Planning Otherwise, Vol. 19(2), April 25th, 2018.

2. C.N.E. Corbin, “The Rise of Green Spaces in Inner Cities.” African American Intellectual History Society, Black Perspectives, November 29, 2017. http://www.aaihs.org/the-rise-of-green-spaces-in-inner-cities/

3. 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.

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

Recognitions as a Valuable Resources in Graduate Diversity, Community Engagement, and Political Action, ESPM Graduate Diversity Council and ESPM (2018)

Outstanding Mentor Award, Getting into Graduate School UC Berkeley Mentoring Program (2016)

Article of Distinction, UCSA Graduate Policy Journal (2015)

ESPM Distinguished Service Award (2015)

Center for Race and Gender Graduate Student Grant (2013)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2013)

American Planning Association, Planning and the Black Community Division, Robert A. Catlin/David W. Long Memorial Scholarship, Award Recognition (2013)

Chancellor’s Fellowship for Graduate Study, UC Berkeley (2012)