Andrew Sluyter

Andrew Sluyter is an American social scientist who currently teaches as a 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.Andrew Sluyter on Academia.edu
/ref> 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, to revealing African contributions to establishing cattle ranching in the Americas, and to the historical geographies of Hispanics and Latinos in New Orleans. 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. His latest book,
Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century
' ( LSU Press, 2015), co-authored with Case Watkins, James Chaney, and Annie M. Gibson, was awarded th
2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
by the American Association of Geographers.

Background

Sluyter received his PhD degree in 1995 from the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin.Biography in Who's Who in America
/ref> 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.Blaut Award citation at AAG CAPE
From 2005 to 2008, Sluyter was a member of the board of directors of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, and in 2017, received its Carl O. Sauerbr>Distinguished Scholarship Award
From 2007 through 2012, he was associate editor of the '' Geographical Review''.Andrew Sluyter at LSU
/ref> 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.PAIGH US Geography Commission
/ref> Sluyter currently serves as the co-editor-in-chief of '' Journal of Historical Geography'' and as executive director of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.

Students

Geographers who have studied with him include Case Watkins (PhD 2015), now a faculty member at James Madison University; Jamie Worms, now a faculty member at Georgia State University; James P. Chaney (PhD 2013), now a faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University; 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).
* With Case Watkins, James Chaney, and Annie M. Gibson,
Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century
' (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015).

Journal articles

* Intensive Wetland Agriculture in Mesoamerica: Space, Time, and Form, ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' 84 (1994): 557-84.
*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.
*Colonialism and Landscape in the Americas: Material/Conceptual Transformations and Continuing Consequences, ''Annals of the Association of American Geographers'' 91 (2001): 410-29.
*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.
*Humboldt's Mexican Texts and Landscapes, '' Geographical Review'' 96 (2006): 361-81.
*Blaut’s Early Natural/Social Theorization, Cultural Ecology, and Political Ecology, '' Antipode'' 37 (2005): 963-80.
*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.
*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.
*With Amy E. Potter, Renegotiating Barbuda's Commons: Recent Changes in Barbudan Open-Range Cattle Herding, ''Journal of Cultural Geography'' 27 (2010): 129-50.
*The Hispanic Atlantic’s Tasajo Trail, ''Latin American Research Review'' 45 (2010): 98-120.
*With Richard Hunter, How Incipient Colonies Create Territory: the Textual Surveys of New Spain, 1520s–1620s, ''Journal of Historical Geography'' 37 (2011): 288-99.
*The Role of Blacks in Establishing Cattle Ranching in Louisiana in the Eighteenth Century, ''Agricultural History'' 86, no. 2 (2012): 41-67.
*With Amy E. Potter, Photo-Journal of Barbuda: A Caribbean Island in Transition. ''FOCUS on Geography'' 55: 140-145 (2012).
*How Africans and Their Descendants Participated in Establishing Open-Range Cattle Ranching in the Americas. ''Environment and History'' 21: 77-101 (2015).
*With Richard Hunter, Sixteenth-Century Soil Carbon Sequestration Rates Based on Mexican Land-Grant Documents. ''The Holocene'' 25: 880-85 (2015).
*With Chris Duvall, African Fire Cultures, Cattle Ranching, and Colonial Landscape Transformations in the Neo-Tropics. ''Geographical Review'' 106: 294-311 (2016).

See also

* List of geographers
*Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography
* Environmental determinism

External links

Andrew Sluyter
at WorldCat
Andrew Sluyter
at Academia.edu
Andrew Sluyter
at LSU
* Andrew Sluyter'
personal website
* Andrew Sluyter's
blog on ''PROFpost+''

* Andrew Sluyter'
ACLS Fellowship Project
website
* Andrew Sluyter'
companion site for the book ''Hispanic and Latino New Orleans''

la versión española

References

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1958 births
American social scientists
American geographers
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni
Louisiana State University faculty
Living people
American male non-fiction writers