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The Department of Architecture is delighted to welcome Emmett Zeifman to UC Berkeley. Zeifman has extensive teaching experience and an impressive record of editorial and curatorial work that brings archival research into contemporary discourse on the future of design.

The Department of City & Regional planning is pleased to announce the appointments of Ken E. Salo as Theodore B. and Doris Shoong Lee Chair in Real Estate Law and Urban Planning and Joshua Muldavin as a visiting professor. Both bring deep experience and expertise in global urban issues: Muldavin is an Asia expert and Salo focuses on international law and urban governance in racialized subaltern urban collectives in South Africa, Northeast Brazil, and the American Midwest.

The Department of Architecture is thrilled to announce the appointment of Sean Canty to the faculty as assistant professor. Canty is an architect and educator whose work explores the capacity of architectural form to reorganize spatial norms and forms of social life.

The Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning announces the appointment of Kimberly Garza (BA Landscape Architecture 2006) and Erik Prince, principals of mission-driven landscape architecture, urban design, and public art studio Atlas Lab, as the fall 2026 Lifchez Professors of Practice in Social Justice.