Faculty Member, Geography & Anthropology
Associate Professor
About
My research and teaching amplify understanding of the processes involved in place formation, especially nature/society processes related to colonialism and (post)colonialism. Specific interests include actor networks of the Atlantic World; the environmental history and historical, cultural, and political ecology of the European colonization of the Americas, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean; the relationships among science, native peoples, and development and conservation policy; long-term change in agricultural and pastoral landscapes; and social theory.
Publications include the 2002 monograph Colonialism and Landscape, which won the 2004 James M. Blaut Award of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, and papers in journals such as the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, the Geographical Review, Antipode, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental History, Atlantic Studies, Ancient Mesoamerica, Journal of Latin American Geography, Journal of Historical Geography, Latin American Antiquity, Progress in Human Geography, and others.
I have given talks on that research at many conferences as well as at UCLA, Penn State, UNM, Cambridge, and other universities. The NSF, NGS, AAG, AGS, NASA and others have provided funding.
I am currently accepting applications from prospective graduate students who share those research interests and would like to earn a PhD, MS, or MA in geography or anthropology. Funding to defray the cost is available to highly qualified applicants (see my blog for current opportunities).
The department is involved in exciting interdisciplinary opportunities such as Atlantic Studies, and I particularly encourage dissertation and thesis projects that engage the intersections of nature, culture, and history as rooted in particular places but involved in hemispheric and global networks of relationships. Examples follow of research by recent and current doctoral students, details available on their own Academia.edu pages:
- People, Sheep, and Landscape Change in Colonial Mexico (http://independent.academia.edu/RickHunter)
- Transnational Barbudans, Common Property, and Environment (http://lsu.academia.edu/AmyPotter)
- Transnational Social Networks and Hispanic Workers (http://lsu.academia.edu/JamesChaney)
- Landscapes, Economies, and Ecologies of the Oil Palm (http://lsu.academia.edu/CaseWatkins)
Contact Information
Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
227 Howe-Russell-Kniffen Building
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
USA
tel 1.225.578.4261
fax 1.225.578.4420
Skype: andrew.sluyter
