Alexis E. Wood

University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Ph.D. Geography with Designated Emphases in New Media and Critical Theory

Qualifying Exam Completed Spring 2026 

University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

Bachelor of Arts in Geography (highest honors) & Political Science (high honors)

Thesis: “Jefferson State of Mind: Situating the Newsom Recall in Lived Geographies of         California’s Rural North,” advised by Clancy Wilmott

Visiting Student in Political Philosophy & International Relations, University of Edinburgh, 2020

Phi Beta Kappa, inducted 2021

Berkeley City College · Berkeley, CA

Associate of Arts in Anthropology and Archaeology (Highest Honors)

studio.geo-? Manager · UC Berkeley, Department of Geography

P.I., Clancy Wilmott

Research Assistant · UC Berkeley, Department of Geography & Berkeley Center for New Media

“The Lie of A.I. Exceptionalism: Digitalities, Representation, and Parasitism”

P.I., Clancy Wilmott

Race & Redistricting Expert Witness Program · Southern Poverty and Law Center

Chancellor’s Public Service Fellow · American Cultures Engaged Scholarship

“Digital Humanities and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Oakland.”

P.I., Seth Lunine

Graduate Assistant · UC Berkeley, Department of Geography

“Transformation of Unregulated Cannabis Cultivation Under Proposition 64.”

P.I., Nathen Sayre, Ann Laudati & Michael Polson

NSF REU Fellow · National Science Foundation & University of Washington

“Crafting an Inductive Approach to Identifying Gerrymandered Districts.”

P.I., James Thatcher & Courtney Thatcher

URAP Summer Fellow · UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology

“Index as Method: Trends in American Governance & the CAP Codebook.”

P.I., Mara Loveman & Mary Shi

URAP Apprentice · UC Berkeley, Department of Sociology

“The Public Lands, Settler Colonialism, and Early Government Promotion of Infrastructure in the United States.”

P.I., Mara Loveman & Mary Shi

URAP Apprentice · UC Berkeley, Department of Anthropology

“Archaeological Analysis of Native Californian Materials from the Central California Coast.”

P.I., Kent Lightfoot & Gabriel Sanchez

Graduate Student Peer Advisor · Berkeley Hope Scholars, Berkeley, CA

Freelance Cartographer/GIS Specialist · Berkeley, CA

Graduate Student Researcher · studio.geo-?, Berkeley, CA

URAP Coordinator · studio.geo-?, Berkeley, CA

Geospatial Data Consultant · Redistricting Data Hub, Washington, D.C.

Wood, A.E. Constellating through Spacetime: Walter Benjamin, multimedia methods, and building a landscape. Keynote at Phi Beta Kappa’s Asilomar Conference. Pacific Grove, CA. *

Wood, A.E. “Mapping an ‘Imaginary State’: Cartographic Fragments of the State of Jefferson.” Maps and More with UC Berkeley’s Earth Science and Map Library. Berkeley, CA. *

Wilmott, C., Wood, A.E., & Callaway, C. “Travelling Plants: Decolonising Botanical Mobilities Beyond the Nation-State” at NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society). Louisville, KY.

Wood, A.E. “Affective States” at New Directions in Fringe Politics hosted by UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix. Berkeley, CA. *

Wood, A.E. “State of Mind(Mine): A Database Project” at NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society). Tacoma, WA.

Wood, A.E. “What is a Felt Distance? Structures of Feeling and Rurality” at the Digital Geographies Movements and Methods Workshop. Calgary, Canada.

Thatcher, J., Retchless, D., Wood, A.E. “What Makes a Gerrymanderer? An Inductive Approach to Identifying Gerrymandered Districts” at AAG (American Association of Geographers) Annual Meeting. Denver, CO.

Wilmott, C. & Wood, A. E. “All your base [maps] are belong to us,” at AAG (American Association of Geographers) Annual Meeting. Denver, CO.

Wilmott, C. & Wood, A. E. “Rematriating the Map: Indigenous Cartographies for Alternative Futures,” NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society), Minneapolis, MN.

Thatcher, J. & Wood, A. E. “Cartographic Limits and Interdisciplinary Science: Maps and Mathematics in Pursuit of Social Justice,” at NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society), Minneapolis, MN.

Wood, A. E. “State of Mind/State of Mine: California Secessionism, Facebook, and the Newsom Recall,” at AAG (American Association of Geographers) Annual Meeting. New York, NY.

Wood, A.E., Neer, E., Otomas, W. “What Makes a Gerrymanderer? An Inductive Approach to Identifying Gerrymandered Districts,” at Math Enthusiast Series, University of Washington, Seattle. Seattle, WA. *

“Before You Are Here: Decolonial Cartographies and the Indigenous Bay Area” at Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA.

Lead Cartographer: Clancy Wilmott.

Graduate Student Instructor, Film 155: Cinema After Digitization with Associate Professor Jacob Gaboury, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor, Interdisciplinary Studies 157: Experiential Learning: Context, Self-Reflection, and Professional Development with Continuing Lecturer Dr. Richard Ashcroft, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor, Film 155: Cinema After Digitization with Associate Professor Jacob Gaboury, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor, Interdisciplinary Studies 157: Experiential Learning: Context, Self-Reflection, and Professional Development with Continuing Lecturer Dr. Richard Ashcroft, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor, Geography 10AC: Worldings: Regions, Peoples and States with Assistant Professor Clancy Wilmott, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Instructor, Geography 10AC: Worldings: Regions, Peoples and States with Assistant Professor Clancy Wilmott, UC Berkeley

Global 110E, Europe/Russia In Global Context with Continuing Lecturer Richard Ashcroft, UC Berkeley

Political Economy 160, Political Economy in Historical Context: Law, Nation and Empire in Britain and the United States with Continuing Lecturer Richard Ashcroft, UC Berkeley

Political Economy 85, What is Political Economy and How Should We Do It? with Continuing Lecturer Dr. Richard Ashcroft, UC Berkeley

Media Studies 132, Researching Digital Media: Methods and Methodologies with Assistant Teaching Professor Emma Fraser, UC Berkeley

Political Economy 160, Political Economy in Historical Context: Law, Nation and Empire in Britain and the United States with Continuing Lecturer Richard Ashcroft, UC Berkeley

Film 45, American Television with Lecturer Joseph Coppola, UC Berkeley

Media Studies 132, Researching Digital Media: Methods and Methodologies with Assistant Teaching Professor Emma Fraser, UC Berkeley

Geography 183, Cartographic Representation with Continuing Lecturer John Isom, UC Berkeley

Geography 149B, Climate Impacts and Risk Analysis with Adjunct Professor Emeritus Norman Miller, UC Berkeley

Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program Mentor · UC Berkeley

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Mentor · UC Berkeley Department of Geography

University of California GIS (UC GIS)

North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)

American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Student Board Member, Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) · Re-elected for 2nd Term.

Student Board Member, Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Student Board Member of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) · Two-Year Term

UC GIS Conference Programming Committee & Leadership Committee · University of California GIS

UC GIS Conference Programming Committee & Leadership Committee · University of California GIS

Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, UC Berkeley