Erfan Moradi is a graduate of the History and Geography departments at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in labor and urban histories. His thesis follows the proliferation of container shipping in San Francisco Bay Area ports and its concomitant transformations to the urban social fabric. His study centers the voices of worker-artists to explore grief over the disappearance of working-class social spaces. His ongoing research involves developing an archival collection of media from waterfront writers and artists for the Bancroft Library. This summer, Erfan will be working multimedia productions with the Strategic Communications team. Outside of academia, he is deeply interested in local art and music, anti-oppressive politics, and radical imaginations. He is a Middle Eastern immigrant living on Chochenyo Ohlone land in so-called California.
