Andrew Sluyter

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

For a complete curriculum vita, e-mail asluyter@lsu.edu