Desiree Fields is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where they are also a faculty affiliate with Global Metropolitan Studies and the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. They co-lead an interdisciplinary research group concerned with digital transformations in global land, housing, and property.

A critical economic geographer and urban scholar, Fields's research, teaching, and public scholarship investigate property, finance, and technology, with a focus on how these reproduce social and spatial hierarchies in the United States. At the core of their work is an inquiry into how processes of economic and technological change unevenly restructure urban space and the social relations of land and housing.

Fields is a former fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at the University of Uppsala. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, they were a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York. They hold a PhD in Environmental Psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Biographical details correct as of 11.05.26