Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster
Future Infrastructures: Water, Energy and Justice
Sample Course Syllabi
INT-CS 130 DI: Deserts, Islands, and Other Energy Infrastructures
Spring 2023
Stephen Borunda, Film and Media Studies
Surojit Kayal, English
This course was conceptualized and developed by Stephen and Surojit as part of the Crossroads 2.0 fellowship program, a UCSB-wide competition for teaching an interdisciplinary course on environmental justice by two graduate students from different disciplines in the College of Creative Studies. Stephen and Surojit proposed, developed, and taught this course building on their collaboration as Orfalea graduate fellows.
FAMST 262EI and HIST 201C: Energy Justice in Global Perspective
Winter 2019
Prof. Janet Walker, Film and Media Studies
Prof. Stephan Miescher, History
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GLOBAL 253: Infrastructures and Technologies of Globalization
Non-UCSB Course Syllabi
Geographies of Infrastructure
Spring 2021
Concrete Politics: The Anthropology of Infrastructures and Development
Fall 2020
Prof. Jon Schubert, The Graduate Institute of Geneva
Underworlds: Infrastructure and Society
Fall 2019
Prof. Bilge O’Hearn, The University. of Texas at El Paso
Race and/as Technology: Biopolitics, Engineered Inequality, and Racism
Summer 2021
Prof. Josef Barla and Prof. Vicky Kluzik, Goethe University of Frankfurt
Nature and Infrastructure
Spring 2020
Prof. Ateya Khorakiwala, Columbia University
Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
Fall 2020
Prof. Julie Albright and Prof. Edward Maby, University of Southern California
Evolution of Infrastructure and Society
Fall 2020
Prof. Sybil Derrible, University of Illinois Chicago
