Nicholas Anderman

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Areas of Study

Education

  • PhD, geography, University of California, Berkeley
  • MSc, geography, University College London
  • BA, literature; BM, musicology; Northwestern University

Biography

I am a critical human geographer whose teaching and scholarship explore the relationship between nature, labor, technology, and the history of empire, with an emphasis on the world ocean. My primary research is on global supply chains and the logistics industry; other projects focus on the oceanographic sciences and the politics of sound.

Fall 2025

Supply Chains — FYSP 010

Environment and Society — EVSS 101

Spring 2026

Environment and Society — EVSS 101

Labor and Climate Justice — EVSS 204

Logistical Worlds: Nature, Capital, Power — EVSS 212

Notes

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.

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