About Keith

Dr. Keith K. Miyake (they/them, settler of color) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Labor Studies Program at the University of California, Riverside, and is affiliated faculty in the Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity. Their current teaching and research span critical human geography, environmental and climate justice, environmental policy and governance, racial capitalism, Asian/American Studies, the state, carceral and abolition geographies, and multispecies justice. They currently serve on the faculty advisory committee for the Inland Empire Labor and Community Center (IELCC) and on the editorial board of the journal Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

Keith received a Ph.D. from The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) in Earth and Environmental Sciences, and a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College in Engineering. They received a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the American Studies Department at the University of California, Davis, as well as a Dissertation Fellowship from the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Keith has served as a GC Digital Fellow, on digital research initiatives and Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. They also worked as a graduate assistant for the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, and the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies, also at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Keith previously worked as an environmental engineer, taught public middle school math and science, and was a co-founder of a college preparation company in Beijing. They’ve also held jobs as a camp counselor, computer scientist, and electrical and mechanical fabricator and machinist.

Keith is a proponent of free, libre, and open source software, digital privacy, cryptography, and GNU/Linux.