Nazanin Ghaffari

@nazaninghaffari.bsky.social

Asst. Prof. SUNY ESF | Engaged Urban Scholar |✍🏽 about contested landscapes, whose right to what city, racialized spaces, ecologies & governance regimes

"We’re not mismanaging. We’re not failing. We’re operating exactly as intended. And we are under attack." Read more from UUP President Fred Kowal and UUP ESF Chapter President Matt Smith on the impact of SUNY ESF across the state and why an investment is needed now: www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...

Union: Austerity threatens SUNY ESF’s mission. NY can’t afford to lose it (Guest Opinion)

"If SUNY’s approach continues, ESF will have fewer programs, fewer students, fewer partnerships and generate fewer jobs in Syracuse and across the state," write UUP leaders.

syracuse.com

This is a bit last-minute, but I’m looking for a PhD student to join a newly funded project at SUNY ESF starting Fall 2025. The work focuses on racialized ecologies, reparative land governance, and the layered histories and politics of plantations and forests in New York State.