Andrew Sluyter
| Andrew Sluyter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1958[1] |
| Fields | Geography |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | William E. Doolittle |
Andrew Sluyter is an American social scientist who currently teaches as an associate professor in the Geography and Anthropology Department of the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. His interests are the environmental history and historical, cultural, and political ecology of the colonization of the Americas.[2] He has made various contributions to the theorization of colonialism and landscape, the critique of neo-environmental determinism, to understanding pre-colonial and colonial agriculture and environmental change in Mexico, and to revealing African contributions to establishing cattle ranching in the Americas. With the publication of Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900 (Yale University Press, 2012) and a 2012–13 Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, he has joined a growing number of scholars from multiple disciplines working from the perspective of Atlantic History and using the tools of the Digital Humanities.[3]
Background
Sluyter received his PhD-degree in 1995 from the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin.[4] In 2004, he earned the James M. Blaut Award in Recognition of Innovative Scholarship from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.[5] From 2005 to 2008, Sluyter was a member of the board of directors of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. From 2007 through 2012, he was associate editor of the Geographical Review.[6] And since 2006 he has served on the United States Geography Commission of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History of the Organization of American States.[7]
Students
Geographers who have studied with him include Amy E. Potter (PhD 2011), now a faculty member at Armstrong Atlantic State University, and Richard Hunter (PhD 2009), now a member of the geography faculty of the State University of New York at Cortland.
Publications (selection)
Books
- Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
- Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012)
Journal Articles
- Intensive Wetland Agriculture in Mesoamerica: Space, Time, and Form, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 84 (1994): 557-84. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1994.tb01877.x
- The Making of the Myth in Postcolonial Development: Material-Conceptual Landscape Transformation in Sixteenth-Century Veracruz, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89 (1999): 377–401. doi:10.1111/0004-5608.00154
- Colonialism and Landscape in the Americas: Material/Conceptual Transformations and Continuing Consequences, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91 (2001): 410-29. doi:10.1111/0004-5608.00251
- 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, editors, Geographical Political Ecology (New York: Guilford Press, 2003).
- With Alfred H. Siemens, editors, Native Food Production Knowledges and Practices, Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004): 101-261. doi:10.1023/B:AHUM.0000029394.78035.78
- Humboldt's Mexican Texts and Landscapes, Geographical Review 96 (2006): 361-81. doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2006.tb00256.x
- Blaut’s Early Natural/Social Theorization, Cultural Ecology, and Political Ecology, Antipode 37 (2005): 963-80. doi:10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00545.x
- With Gabriela Dominguez, Early Maize Cultivation in Mexico. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (2006): 1147–51.
- The Role of Black Barbudans in the Establishment of Open-Range Cattle Herding in the Colonial Caribbean and South Carolina, Journal of Historical Geography 35 (2009): 330-49. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2008.08.003
- With Sarah A. Radcliffe, Elizabeth E. Watson, Ian Simmons, and Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Environmentalist Thinking and/in Geography, Progress in Human Geography 34 (2010): 98-116. doi:10.1177/0309132509338749
- With Amy E. Potter, Renegotiating Barbuda's Commons: Recent Changes in Barbudan Open-Range Cattle Herding, Journal of Cultural Geography 27 (2010): 129-50. doi:10.1080/08873631.2010.494404
- The Hispanic Atlantic’s Tasajo Trail, Latin American Research Review 45 (2010): 98-120. doi:10.1353/lar.0.0114
- With Richard Hunter, How Incipient Colonies Create Territory: the Textual Surveys of New Spain, 1520s–1620s, Journal of Historical Geography 37 (2011): 288-99. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2011.01.005
See also
External links
- Andrew Sluyter at WorldCat
- Andrew Sluyter at Academia.edu
- Andrew Sluyter at LSU
- Andrew Sluyter's personal website
- Andrew Sluyter's ACLS Fellowship Project website