Nicholas Anderman

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Education

  • PhD, Geography, University of California—Berkeley
  • MSc, Geography, University College London
  • BA, Literature, Northwestern University
  • BM, Musicology, Northwestern University

Biography

I am a critical human geographer whose teaching and scholarship concern the relationship between nature, labor, science and technology, and the history of empire, particularly in oceanic contexts. My primary research is on global supply chains and the logistics industry; additional projects focus on the oceanographic sciences, the politics of sound, and environmental policy in Southern California. I teach classes that span geography, science and technology studies, political economy/ecology, development studies, and the environmental humanities.

Fall 2026

Against Technology? — FYSP 015

Logistical Worlds: Nature, Capital, Power — EVSS 212

Science, Technology, and the Environment — EVSS 296

Spring 2027

Environment and Society — EVSS 101

Notes

Nicholas Anderman Chaired Art Event in Oakland

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Nicholas Anderman chaired “On the Waterfront: Art at Work,” a public event in Oakland, California, hosted by Long-Haul magazine. The event was favorably reviewed in the Oakland Review of Books.

Nicholas Anderman Article Published in "Long-Haul"

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Nicholas Anderman published the article “Coffee and Hernias, Cotton and Death: The Bay Area Waterfront Writers and Artists, 1977–1994” in the labor magazine Long-Haul. Co-written with a former student, the piece describes how a group of longshore worker-artists chronicled the arrival of the shipping container to the San Francisco Bay Area. The essay was recently quoted by the historian Adam Tooze in his influential newsletter Chartbook.