Christina Gerhardt is Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities, Film and German Studies at the University of Hawaii. She is the author of _Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise_and the editor of Climate Change, Hawaii and the Pacific. She has held fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the DAAD and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the Free University Berlin and Columbia University and taught previously at the University of California at Berkeley.

Her writing has been published in the journals Capitalism, Nature and Socialism, Environmental Humanities, Humanities, Mosaic, and in the edited volumes Water: An Atlas; and My Ocean Guide.

She will be giving a guest lecture on “Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise.”