Rachelle Berry, Ph.D.

 Dr. Rachelle Berry specializes in Black Geographies, Black Feminist Theory, and Urban Geography. Their research investigates the role of universities in perpetuating anti-Black urbanism to produce their campus grounds. Their work highlights how the university destroys Black institutions that once supported and nurtured Black life. Dr. Berry's scholarly contributions on the educational violence of universities is published in GeoHumanities.
 
Utilizing both scholar-organizing and autoethnographic methods, they document the experiences of Black communities in their pursuit of recognition and redress from universities. This research illustrates how racial justice organizing can result in reparational justice, healing, and the restoration of Black Geographies.
 
As a founding member of the Athena Co-Learning Collective, Dr. Berry collaborated on developing a Black feminist praxis for the classroom. Dr. Berry's work on the Athena Co-learning collective is published in Gender, Place, and Culture and Antipode.
 
Currently, Dr. Berry is authoring a book examining the anti-Black urbanism of the University of Georgia and the responses of Athens' Black community to preserve, protect, and rebuild their institutions of Black being.