Dr Jovan Scott-Lewis

Professor of Geography and Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley

Jovan Scott Lewis is Professor of Geography and Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarship examines the political economy of racial inequality, Black geographies, reparations, and the spatial organization of capitalism, with particular attention to the Caribbean and the United States. He is the author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (2022), and co-editor of The Black Geographic (2023). From 2021 to 2023, Lewis served as a governor-appointed member of the State of California Reparations Task Force.