Areas of interest:

• Heritage preservation and cultural property law
• Transitional justice (reconciliation, reparations and restitution)
• WWII militarization/demilitarized landscapes and architecture
• Race, incarceration and penal institution
• Solidarity, social movements and resistance
• Geographic Areas: WWII confinement camps in Alaska, Hawai'i and British Columbia

I am a landscape architect / landscape historian studying histories of cultural resource management as they intertwine with redress, reconciliation and recognition politics. My research combines social history, environmental history and legal history and I engage with cultural landscape studies, critical race and indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, historical archaeology, material culture studies, and critical legal geography.

For 2017-2018, my research is supported by the Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Fellowship.

Spring 2018. ENVDES R3B: Energy, Sustainability and Society. Reading and Comprehension. College of Environmental Design. Instructor: Desiree Valadares; Faculty Mentor: Renee Chow

Fall 2017. ARCH 179: Writing on the Walls, Fall 2017. Art of Writing at the Townsend Center. Architecture Department. Faculty Instructor: Prof. Andy Shanken

Fall 2016. HISTART 187AC: Race and Representation in the Twentieth Century in the United States. History of Art Department. Faculty Instructor: Prof. Lauren Kroiz

Valadares, D. "Dispossessing the Wilderness: Environmental Peace building and Reconciliation in Canada’s National Parks" in Jeroen Rodenberg and Pieter Wagenaar eds. Cultural Contestation: Heritage, Identity and the Role of Government. Palgrave Macmillan. 2018.