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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-4261 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: asluyter@lsu.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1995.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sluyter's recent research was featured in an article in the Financial Times (Weekend, June 30/July 1, 2001, p. VIII).
Landscape transformations associated with European colonization
of the Americas, especially Latin America.
Long-term change in agricultural and pastoral landscapes, especially in Latin
America.
Relationships among science, native peoples, and development and conservation
policy.
Social/natural theory.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Andrew Sluyter. 2003. "Material-Conceptual Landscape
Transformation and the Emergence of the Pristine Myth in Early Colonial Mexico."
In Karl S. Zimmerer and Thomas J. Bassett, eds., Political Ecology: An Integrative
Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies. New York: Guilford
Press.
Andrew Sluyter. 2002. Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Andrew Sluyter. 2001. "Colonialism and Landscape in the
Americas: Material/Conceptual Transformations and Continuing Consequences."
Annals of the Association of American Geographers 9: 410-28.
SUPPORTED RESEARCH
National Science Foundation
National Geographic Society
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2000-2002. Chair of the Cultural and Political Ecology
Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.
2001. Session Discussant for Pre-European Landscapes of the American
West: Pristine or Anthropogenic? The American Association for the Advancement
of Science, 167th National Meeting, San Francisco, California.
2000. Symposium Co-organizer (with Alfred. H. Siemens) of Native
American Ecologies: Past, Present, and Future. International Congress of Americanists/Congreso
Internacional de Americanistas, 50th Meeting, Warsaw, Poland.
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Research Methods in Geography
Department of Geography & Anthropology
Louisiana State University
227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105
Phone: (225) 578-5942
Fax: (225) 578-4420
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