Andrew Sluyter

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Associate 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.,The University of Texas at Austin, 1995.

INTERESTS

Environmental history and historical, cultural, and political ecology of the colonization of the Americas

Relationships among science, native peoples, and development and conservation policy

Social/natural theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

A. Sluyter and Gabriela Dominguez. 2006. Early Maize Cultivation in Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 1147-1151.

A. Sluyter. 2005. Blaut’s Early Natural/Social Theorization, Cultural Ecology, and Political Ecology. Antipode 37: 963-80.

A. Sluyter and Alfred H. Siemens, editors. 2004. Native Food Production Knowledges and Practices. Agriculture and Human Values 21: 101-261.

The Role of Material/Conceptual Landscape Transformation in the Emergence of the Pristine Myth: Insights from Early Colonial Mexico. In Karl S. Zimmerer and Thomas J. Bassett, eds., Geographical Political Ecology. New York: Guilford Press, 2003.

Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

RESEARCH

Caribbean Common Property and Transnational Migration

Pampas Environmental History

Basin of Mexico Drainage

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2007-10, Associate Editor, Geographical Review

2006-10, US Representative to the Geography and Regional Development Committee, Pan-American Institute of Geography and History, Organization of American States

2006-09, Member of the Publications Committee, Association of American Geographers

2005-08, Member of the Board of Directors, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers

2004 James M. Blaut Award in Recognition of Innovative Scholarship in Cultural and Political Ecology, Association of American Geographers, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group

COURSES TAUGHT

Geog 7902, Introduction to Geographical Research
Geog 7950, Latin America Research Seminar
Geog 4031, Latin America and the Caribbean
Geog 4086, Human-Environment Interaction
Geog 1001, World Regional—Europe and the Americas 

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