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DR. ANDREW SLUYTER
CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CONFERENCE OF LATIN AMERICANIST GEOGRAPHERS
PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
227 Howe-Russell-Kniffen Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 tel.: (225) 578-4261 / fax: (225) 578-4420 [email protected] / lsu.academia.edu / AndrewSluyter
Degrees PhD, 1995, Geography, The University of Texas at Austin MA, 1990, Geography, The University of British Columbia BA, 1987, Geography, The University of British Columbia
Honors and Awards 5) 2017 The 2017 Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 4) 2016 The 2015 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, American Association of Geographers (for Hispanic and Latino New Orleans, LSU Press, 2015, item 3 in list of research monographs). 3) 2012 A 2012-13 Digital Innovation Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (see item 12 in list of extramurally sponsored research projects for details). 2) 2004 The 2004 James M. Blaut Award in Recognition of Innovative Scholarship, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (for Colonialism and Landscape, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, item 1 in list of research monographs). 1) 1995 The 1995 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Geography, the University of Texas at Austin.
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Monographs (peer reviewed) 3) A. Sluyter, Case Watkins, James Chaney, and Annie M. Gibson. 2015. Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (xviii and 210 pp.). Award winner; see Honors and Awards section. 2) A. Sluyter. 2012. Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500– 1900. New Haven: Yale University Press (xii and 308 pp.). 1) A. Sluyter. 2002. Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications. New York: Rowman & Littlefield (xi and 267 pp.). Award winner; see Honors and Awards section.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (peer reviewed) Articles 31) Annie M. Gibson, Case Watkins, James Chaney, and A. Sluyter. 2017. Vínculos Históricos entre Nueva Orleans, Luisiana y Cuba. Ester Pérez, trans. Universidad de la Habana 283: 44-58 (15 pp.). A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 2
30) A. Sluyter and Chris Duvall. 2016. African Fire Cultures, Cattle Ranching, and Colonial Landscape Transformations in the Neo-Tropics. Geographical Review 106: 294-311 (18 pp.). 29) Richard Hunter and A. Sluyter. 2015. Sixteenth-Century Soil Carbon Sequestration Rates Based on Mexican Land-Grant Documents. The Holocene 25: 880-85 (6 pp.). 28) A. Sluyter. 2015. How Africans and Their Descendants Participated in Establishing Open-Range Cattle Ranching in the Americas. Environment and History 21: 77-101 (25 pp.). 27) Amy E. Potter and A. Sluyter. 2012. Photo-Journal of Barbuda: A Caribbean Island in Transition. FOCUS on Geography 55: 140-145 (6 pp.). 26) A. Sluyter. 2012. The Role of Blacks in Establishing Cattle Ranching in Louisiana in the Eighteenth Century. Agricultural History 86, no. 2: 41-67 (27 pp.). 25) Richard Hunter and A. Sluyter. 2011. How Incipient Colonies Create Territory: The Textual Surveys of New Spain, 1520s-1620s. Journal of Historical Geography 37: 288-99 (12 pp.). 24) Amy E. Potter and A. Sluyter. 2010. Renegotiating Barbuda’s Commons: Recent Changes in Barbudan Open-Range Cattle Herding. Journal of Cultural Geography 27: 129-50 (22 pp.). 23) A. Sluyter. 2010. The Hispanic Atlantic’s Tasajo Trail. Latin American Research Review 45: 98- 120 (23 pp.). 22) A. Sluyter. 2009. 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: 330- 349 (20 pp.). 21) A. Sluyter. 2008. (Post-)K New Orleans and the Hispanic Atlantic: Geographic Method and Meaning. Atlantic Studies 5: 383-98 (16 pp.). 20) A. Sluyter and Kent Mathewson. 2007. Intellectual Relations between Historical Geography and Latin Americanist Geography. Journal of Latin American Geography 6: 25-41 (17 pp.). 19) A. Sluyter and Gabriela Dominguez. 2006. Early Maize (Zea mays L.) Cultivation in Mexico: Dating Sedimentary Pollen Records and its Implications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 1147-51 (5 pp.). 18) A. Sluyter, Andrew D. Augustine, Michael C. Bitton, Thomas J. Sullivan, and Fei Wang. 2006. The Recent Intellectual Structure of Geography. The Geographical Review 96: 594-608 (15 pp.). 17) A. Sluyter. 2006. Humboldt’s Mexican Texts and Landscapes. The Geographical Review 96: 361- 81 (21 pp.). 16) A. Sluyter. 2005. Blaut’s Early Natural/Social Theorization, Cultural Ecology, and Political Ecology. Antipode 37: 963-80 (18 pp.). 15) A. Sluyter. 2001. Colonialism and Landscape in the Americas: Material/Conceptual Transformations and Continuing Consequences. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 91: 410-28 (19 pp.). 14) A. Sluyter. 1999. The Making of the Myth in Postcolonial Development: Material-Conceptual Landscape Transformation in Sixteenth-Century Veracruz. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 89: 377-401 (25 pp.). 13) A. Sluyter. 1998. From Archive to Map to Pastoral Landscape: A Spatial Perspective on the Livestock Ecology of Sixteenth-Century New Spain. Environmental History 3: 508-28 (21 pp.). 12) A. Sluyter. 1997. Analysis of Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays) Pollen: Normalizing the Effects of Microscope-Slide Mounting Media on Diameter Determinations. Palynology 21: 35-39 (5 pp.). 11) A. Sluyter. 1997. Landscape Change and Livestock in Sixteenth-Century New Spain: The Archival Data Base. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Yearbook, 1997 23: 27-39 (13 pp.). 10) A. Sluyter. 1997. Regional, Holocene Records of the Human Dimension of Global Change: Sea- Level and Land-Use Change in Prehistoric Mexico. Global and Planetary Change 14: 127-46 (20 pp.). 9) A. Sluyter. 1996. The Ecological Origins and Consequences of Cattle Ranching in Sixteenth- Century New Spain. The Geographical Review 86: 161-77 (17 pp.). A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 3
8) A. Sluyter. 1994. Intensive Wetland Agriculture in Mesoamerica: Space, Time, and Form. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 84: 557-84 (28 pp.). 7) A. Sluyter. 1993. Long-Distance Staple Transport in Western Mesoamerica: Insights through Quantitative Modeling. Ancient Mesoamerica 4: 193-99 (7 pp.). 6) A. Sluyter and A. H. Siemens. 1992. Vestiges of Prehispanic, Sloping-Field Terraces on the Piedmont of Central Veracruz, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 3: 148-60 (13 pp.).
Chapters 5) A. Sluyter. 2009. (Post-)K New Orleans and the Hispanic Atlantic: Geographic Method and Meaning. In William Boelhower, ed., New Orleans in the Atlantic World: Between Land and Sea, pp. 227-42. New York: Routledge (reprint of item 21 in list of journal articles) (16 pp.). 4) A. Sluyter. 2006. Traveling/Writing the Unworld with Alexander von Humboldt. In Theano S. Terkenli and Anne-Marie d’Hauteserre, eds., Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, pp. 93-116. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer (24 pp.). 3) A. Sluyter. 2004. Las Orígenes Ecológicos y las Consecuencias de la Ganadería en la Nueva España Durante el Siglo XVI. In José Velasco Toro and David Skerritt Gardner, eds. and trans., De las Marismas del Guadalquivir a la Costa de Veracruz: Cinco perspectivas sobre cultura ganadera, pp. 14-37. Xalapa, Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana and Instituto de la Cultura de Veracruz (translation of item 9 in list of journal articles) (24 pp.). 2) A. 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, pp. 221- 39. New York: Guilford Press (abridged, re-written version of item 14 in list of journal articles) (19 pp.). 1) William E. Doolittle, A. Sluyter, Eric P. Perramond, Philip L. Crossley, and Dean P. Lambert. 2002. Feeding a Growing Population on an Increasingly Fragile Environment. In Gregory Knapp, ed., Latin America in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions, pp. 45-75. Austin: The University of Texas Press (31 pp.).
Edited Journal Issues (peer reviewed) 2) Kent Mathewson and A. Sluyter, guest eds. 2006. Humboldt in the Americas. Special issue of the Geographical Review 96: iii-x and 335-522 (196 pp.). 1) A. Sluyter and Alfred H. Siemens, guest eds. 2004. Native Food Production Knowledge Systems and Practices. Special issue of Agriculture and Human Values 21: 101-261 (161 pp.).
Proceedings Chapters (not peer reviewed) 2) A. Sluyter. 2001. Ganadería Española y Cambio Ambiental en las Tierras Bajas Tropicales de Veracruz, México, siglo XVI. Miguel Aguilar-Robledo, trans. In Lucina Hernández, ed., Historia Ambiental de la Ganadería en México (Proceedings of El Seminario Internacional sobre Historia Ambiental de la Ganadería en México, Durango, Durango, Mexico, 16-18 October 1996), pp. 25- 40. Xalapa, Mexico: Instituto de Ecología and L’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (16 pp.). 1) Charles M. Ruffner, A. Sluyter, Marc D. Abrams, Charles Crothers, Jack McLaughlin, and Richard Kandare. 1997. Assessing Native American Disturbances in Mixed Oak Forests of the Allegheny Plateau. In Communicating the Role of Silviculture in Managing the National Forests (Proceedings of the National Silviculture Workshop, Warren, Pennsylvania, 19-22 May 1997), pp. 96-103. Radnor, Pennsylvania: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service (5 pp.).
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Essays (not peer reviewed) 14) A. Sluyter. 2017. Some Hispanic and Latino Landscapes of New Orleans. AAG Newsletter vol. 52, no. 8 (August) (in press). 13) A. Sluyter. 2015. African Cowboys on the Argentine Pampas: Their Disappearance from the Historical Record. BlackPast.org (www.blackpast.org/perspectives/african-cowboys-argentine- pampas-their-disappearance-historical-record) (invited essay). 12) A. Sluyter. 2014. African Arrivals and Transformations. In Craig E. Colten and Geoffrey L. Buckley, eds., North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century, pp. 49-66. New York: Rowman and Littlefield (textbook chapter) (18 pp.). 11) A. Sluyter. 2010. The Geographical Review’s Historical Dimensions and Recentism. The Geographical Review 100: 6-11 (invited essay) (5 pp.). 10) A. Sluyter. 2010. Engaging with the Politics of Determinist Environmental Thinking. Progress in Human Geography 34: 111-16 (invited essay) (6 pp.). 9) Craig E. Colten, Dydia DeLyser, A. Sluyter, and Kent Mathewson. 2010. The 100th Volume. The Geographical Review 100: iii-iv (editors’ introduction) (2 pp.). 8) Kent Mathewson and A. Sluyter. 2006. Humboldt in the Americas. The Geographical Review 96: iii-v (editors’ introduction) (3 pp.). 7) A. Sluyter. 2005. Recentism in Environmental History on Latin America. Environmental History 10: 91-93 (invited essay) (3 pp.). 6) A. Sluyter and Alfred H. Siemens. 2004. Native Food Production Knowledges and Practices: Alternative Values and Outcomes. Agriculture and Human Values 21: 101-3 (editors’ introduction) (3 pp.). 5) A. Sluyter. 2004. Introduction to the Paper Issues of the Cultural Ecology Newsletter. In Andrew Sluyter, ed., Digital Facsimiles of the Paper Issues of the Cultural Ecology Newsletter: A Project of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group to Celebrate the Centennial of the American Association of Geographers (CD-ROM), pp. 1-2. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: The Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers and Andrew Sluyter (editors’ introduction) (2 pp.). 4) A. Sluyter. 2003. Neo-Environmental Determinism, Intellectual Damage Control, and Nature/Society Science. Antipode 35: 813-17 (invited essay) (5 pp.). 3) A. Sluyter. 2003. William E. Doolittle: Mediator between the World of Work and the World of Books. Cultural and Political Ecology Newsletter no. 41 (Spring 2003) (invited essay) (5 pp.). 2) A. Sluyter. 1997. On Excavating and Burying Epistemologies. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 87: 700-2 (commentary) (3 pp.). 1) A. Sluyter. 1996. The Nazca Lines. Cogniz 1 (4): 7 (invited essay) (1 p.).
Book Reviews (not peer reviewed) 23) A. Sluyter. 2017. Review of Humboldt's Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller, Myron Echenberg. Journal of Historical Geography (in press). 22) A. Sluyter. 2017. Review of Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics, by Robert W. Wilcox. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History 74 (in press). 21) A. Sluyter. 2017. Review of Rice: Global Networks and New Histories, ed. by Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, and Dagmar Schäfer. Journal of African History 58: 364- 66 (3 pp.). 20) A. Sluyter. 2016. Review of Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawaii, by John R. Fischer. Journal of American History 103: 464-65 (2 pp.). 19) A. Sluyter. 2016. Review of Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia, by Jeffrey Hoelle. Journal of Latin American Geography 15: 163-65 (3 pp.). A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 5
18) A. Sluyter. 2016. Review of Centering Animals in Latin American History, ed. by Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici. Ethnohistory 63: 439-40 (2 pp.). 17) A. Sluyter. 2015. Review of Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City, by Vera S. Candiani. American Association of Geographers Review of Books 3: 55-57 (3 pp.). 16) A. Sluyter. 2014. Review of Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City: Land, Writing, and Native Rule, ed. by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy. Journal of Historical Geography 46: 132 (1 p.). 15) A. Sluyter. 2013. Review of New Mexico’s Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People, by William W. Dunmire. Agricultural History 87: 556-57 (2 pp.). 14) A. Sluyter. 2013. Review of Historia de las Antillas no Hispanas, ed. by Ana Crespo Solana and María Dolores González-Ripoll. Hispanic American Historical Review 93: 487-88 (2 pp.). 13) A. Sluyter. 2012. Review of Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader, ed. by Jordana Dym and Karl Offen. Hispanic American Historical Review 92: 541-42 (2 pp.). 12) A. Sluyter. 2012. Review of The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas, ed. by Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith. Journal of Historical Geography 38: 351-52 (2 pp.). 11) A. Sluyter. 2010. Review of In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World, by Judith A. Carney and Richard N. Rosomoff. Journal of Historical Geography 36: 358-59 (2 pp.). 10) A. Sluyter. 2007. Review of Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic, by Cynthia Radding. American Anthropologist 109: 412-13 (2 pp.). 9) A. Sluyter. 2005. Joint review of Is Geography Destiny?: Lessons from Latin America, by John L. Gallup, Alejandro Gaviria, and Eduardo Lora; and Troubled Harvest: Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002, by Joseph Cotter. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 95: 232- 36 (5 pp.). 8) A. Sluyter. 2004. Review of Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire, by Felix Driver. Historical Geography 32: 224-26 (3 pp.). 7) A. Sluyter 2001. Review of Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas, edited by David Lentz. Latin American Antiquity 12: 350-51 (2 pp). 6) A. Sluyter. 1999. Review of Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management, by Fikret Berkes. Journal of Ethnobiology 19: 248-49 (2 pp.). 5) A. Sluyter. 1998. Review of A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present, by Alfred H. Siemens. The Geographical Review 88: 450-52 (3 pp.). 4) A. Sluyter. 1998. Review of The Evolving Landscape: Homer Aschmann’s Geography, edited by Martin J. Pasqualetti. Hispanic American Historical Review 78: 491-92 (2 pp.). 3) A. Sluyter. 1995. Review of Lords of the Hills: Ancient Maya Settlement in the Puuc Region, Yucatán, Mexico, by Nicholas P. Dunning. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 85: 200-202 (3 pp.). 2) A. Sluyter. 1995. Review of The Cultural Landscape during 6000 Years in Southern Sweden—The Ystad Project, edited by Björn E. Berglund. Cultural Ecology Newsletter no. 26: 8-9 (2 pp.). 1) A. Sluyter. 1991. Review of Tierra Configurada: Investigaciones de los Vestigios de Agricultura Precolumbiana en Tierras Inundables Costeras desde el Norte de Veracruz hasta Belice, by Alfred H. Siemens. The Professional Geographer 43: 385-86 (2 pp.).
Encyclopedia Articles (peer reviewed as noted) 4) A. Sluyter and Tereza Cavazos. 2010. Physical Geography and Climate: Overview. In Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster, eds., Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, pp. 292-99. New York: Routledge (not peer reviewed) (8 pp.). A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 6
3) A. Sluyter. 2008. Veracruz, State of. In Jay Kinsbruner and Erick Langer, eds., Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd ed., 6 vols. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Cenage, vol. 6, pp. 352-53 (peer reviewed; revision of item 1 in list of encyclopedia articles) (2 pp.). 2) A. Sluyter and Tereza Cavazos. 2001. Physical Geography and Climate: Overview. In Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster, eds., Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, pp. 292-99. New York: Garland (not peer reviewed) (8 pp.). 1) A. Sluyter. 1996. Veracruz (State). In Barbara A. Tenenbaum, ed., Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 5 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, vol. 5, p. 402 (peer reviewed; this reference work has won the American Historical Association’s Waldo G. Leland Prize for Outstanding Reference Tool in History, the American Library Association’s Outstanding Reference Source, the Dartmouth Medal Honorable Mention Citation, the Booklist Editors’ Choice Best Reference, the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book, the New York Public Library’s Outstanding Reference Source, and the Reference and User Services Association’s Outstanding Reference Source) (1 p.).
Digital Humanities/New Media (not peer reviewed) 6) A. Sluyter, 2016-17. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, New Orleans, 2017 (http://www.clagconference.org). 5) A. Sluyter, est. 2013. PROFpost+ (http://ga.lsu.edu/blog/andrewsluyter/). 4) A. Sluyter, est. 2013. A GIS of Atlantic Networks (aclsproject.blogspot.com). 3) A. Sluyter, est. 2013. Andrew Sluyter (sites.google.com/site/andrewsluyter/; sites.google.com/site/andrewsluyterespanol/). 2) A. Sluyter, Case Watkins, James Chaney, and Annie M. Gibson, est. 2013. New Orleans, Nueva Orleáns, Nova Orleães (sites.google.com/site/nolalatinobook/; sites.google.com/site/nolalatinobookespanol/). 1) A. Sluyter, est. 2013. The Atlantic Networks Project (sites.google.com/site/atlanticnetworksproject/)
Other works (not peer reviewed) 6) A. Sluyter. 2016. Guide for “Los Isleños” Field Trip. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, January 3-5, 2017, New Orleans (ii and 15 pp.). 5) A. Sluyter, ed. 2016. Abstract Book: Papers and Posters / Libro de resúmenes: Ponencias y carteles, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, January 3-5, 2017, New Orleans (74 pp.). 4) A. Sluyter, ed. 2016. Program: Borderlands / Programa: Las zonas fronterizas, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, January 3-5, 2017, New Orleans (xiii and 38 pp.). 3) A. Sluyter, ed. 2004. Digital Facsimiles of the Paper Issues of the Cultural Ecology Newsletter: A Project of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group to Celebrate the Centennial of the American Association of Geographers (CD-ROM). Baton Rouge, Louisiana: The Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers and Andrew Sluyter (iii and 214 pp.). 2) A. Sluyter. 1995. Changes in the Landscape: Natives, Spaniards, and the Ecological Restructuration of Central Veracruz, Mexico during the Sixteenth Century. PhD dissertation (UMI no. AAT 9603959). Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International. W. E. Doolittle, major professor. 1) A. Sluyter. 1990. Vestiges of Upland Fields in Central Veracruz: A New Perspective on its Precolumbian Human Ecology. MA thesis (AMICUS no. 12436867; ISBN no. 0315641649). Ottawa: The National Library of Canada. A. H. Siemens, advisor.
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RESEARCH: FUNDING Extramurally Sponsored Research Projects 13) 2017-18. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Grant. Digitizing Louisiana’s Spanish Land Surveys. $3,264; 5/17-12/18; Lauren A. Coats, PI; A. Sluyter, Co-PI. 12) 2012-13. American Council of Learned Societies, Digital Innovation Fellowship Program. An Internet-Based Geographic Information System of Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Commodity Networks. $80,000; 7/12-6/13; A. Sluyter, PI. 11) 2012. US Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program. Dendezeiro: The Atlantic Voyage and Contemporary Economy of the African Oil Palm in Bahia, Brazil. $35,000; 1/12-12/12; Case Watkins, Graduate Fellow; A. Sluyter, Major Professor. 10) 2009-13. Louisiana Board of Regents, Economic Development Assistantship Program. Hispanics in the Post-Katrina Economic Development of New Orleans: $100,000; 8/09-7/13; A. Sluyter, PI. 9) 2009-10. Louisiana Board of Regents, ATLAS Program. Book Project: Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World: Interconnections of Peoples and Places, 1500-1900. $49,976; 8/09-8/10; A. Sluyter, PI. 8) 2006-08. Department of Defense, US Army, Foreign Military Studies Office. Global GIS Place- Based Field Research in the Antilles. $176,000; Jerome E. Dobson, University of Kansas and American Geographical Society, PI. Subaward—Cultural-Historical Context for Resource-Use Conflict in the Leeward Lesser Antilles. $50,000; 8/06-8/08; A. Sluyter, PI; Kent Mathewson, Co- PI. 7) 2001-02. Environmental Protection Agency, STAR Fellowships for Environmental Study. Incorporating Urban Historical Processes into Environmental Science: The Case of Manhattan Island. $34,000; 8/01-6/02; Ruben S. Rose-Redwood, Graduate Fellow; and A. Sluyter, Major Professor. 6) 2000-01. National Geographic Society. Relationship of Changes in Northeastern Forest Composition to Prehistoric Land-Use. $13,349; 8/00 to 12/01; A. Sluyter, PI; William A. Patterson III and Charles M. Ruffner, Collaborators. 5) 2000-01. National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program. Native American Ecologies and Sustainable Development: Group Travel for a Symposium of the 50th International Congress of Americanists. $10,600; 7/00 to 12/01; A. Sluyter, PI. 4) 1999-00. National Geographic Society. Relationship between Native American Depopulation and Livestock Invasion, Sixteenth-Century Mexico. $2,635; 7/99-6/00); A. Sluyter, PI. 3) 1998-99. National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program. An AMS Radiocarbon Chronology for a Long Record of Maize (Zea mays) Cultivation from Veracruz, Mexico. $11,500; 5/98-7/99; A. Sluyter, PI. 2) 1992-95. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Mission to Planet Earth—Global Change Research Program. Holocene Environmental Change of the Southern Gulf of Mexico Tropical Lowland. $66,000; 9/92-8/95; A. Sluyter, Graduate Fellow; William E. Doolittle, Major Professor. 1) 1992-93. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Financial-Aid-To-Students Program. A Sea-Level Curve for the Southern Gulf of Mexico. $1,500; 9/92/-8/93; A. Sluyter, PI.
Other Competitive Funding 8) 2016. Louisiana State University, College of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Manship Summer Research Award. Digital Humanities: Mapping of Colonial Land Grants. $5,000; 6/2016; A. Sluyter, PI. 7) 2016. Louisiana State University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Instructional Impact Grant. Digital Humanities Workshops. $6,142; 1/16-6/16; Lauren Coates, PI; A. Sluyter, Co-PI. A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 8
6) 2014. Louisiana State University, College of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Manship Summer Research Award. Completion of a Book Manuscript. $7,500; 6/2014; A. Sluyter, PI. 5) 2007. American Association of Geographers, Ann U. White Spousal Research Travel Fund. Cultural Historical Context of Resource Conflicts in the Caribbean. $1,500; 4/07-7/07; A. Sluyter, PI. 4) 2007. Louisiana State University, College of Arts & Sciences, Faculty Research Leave Program. Environmental History of the Pampas. A semester’s release from teaching; 1/07-5/07; A. Sluyter, PI. 3) 2006. Louisiana State University, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Summer Stipend Program. Environmental History of the Pampas. $5,000; 7/06; A. Sluyter, PI. 2) 2005-06. Louisiana State University, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty Research Grant Program. Introduction of Livestock into the Pampas of Argentina. $9,982; 1/7/05- 30/6/06; A. Sluyter, PI. 1) 2004. Louisiana State University, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Summer Stipend Program. Introduction of Livestock into Mexico. $5,000; 7/04; A. Sluyter, PI.
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Invited Panels, Symposia, Seminars, and Workshops 36) A. Sluyter (invited workshop presenter). 2017. Hispanic and Latino Neighborhoods in New Orleans, Teaching Latin America through New Orleans: A K-12 Educator Workshop, Latin America Resource Center, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, February 4. 35) A. Sluyter (invited workshop participant). 2016. Summer Institute on the Future of Graduate Studies, the Graduate School, Louisiana State University, May 16-June 3. 34) A. Sluyter (invited workshop participant). 2016. LandCover6k: General Meeting and Workshop, PAGES (Past Global Changes), Future Earth/International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 15-16. 33) A. Sluyter (invited workshop leader). 2016. Historical Geographic Information Systems. Louisiana State University, March 15. 32) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2016. “Honduras es New Orleans”: Placing the Caribbean in the Crescent City. Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, Louisiana State University, January 28. 31) A. Sluyter (invited panel participant). 2016. Hispanic and Latino New Orleans. Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, January 22. 30) A. Sluyter (invited workshop participant). 2015. LandUse6k: Putting History to Work on Climate Change, PAGES (Past Global Changes), Future Earth/International Geosphere- Biosphere Program, University of Chicago Center in Paris, Paris, France, October 22-23. 29) A. Sluyter (invited symposium discussant). 2015. Espaço-Tempo dos Estudos Latino Americanistas. Congress of Latin Americanist Geographers, Fortaleza, Brazil, May 26-30. 28) A. Sluyter (invited workshop participant). 2015. THATCamp Louisiana 2015. History Department, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Academic Affairs, and the Friends of the Humanities, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, March 4-5. 27) A. Sluyter (invited session discussant). 2014. American Odyssey: Historical Geographies of North America. American Association of Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12. 26) A. Sluyter (invited panel discussant). 2014. Environmental History and the Digital Humanities, II. American Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, March 13-16. 25) A. Sluyter (invited workshop participant). 2014. Digital History Workshop. CESTA (Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis), Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, March 12. A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 9
24) A. Sluyter (invited panel discussant). 2013. Beyond the Columbian Exchange: Panel Discussion of the Environmental Histories of the Palaeo- and Neotropics. American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9-13. 23) A. Sluyter (invited session discussant). 2012. Identifying and Understanding Historical Land Use Change in the US Great Plains. The 37th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, Canada, November 1-4. 22) A. Sluyter (invited symposium presenter). 2012. African Material Cultures on the Cattle Ranching Frontiers of the Pampas and the Great Plains. Material Memory Symposium, The University of Tulsa and the Gilcrease Museum, May 18-19. 21) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2008. Transnational Communities and Communal Lands: The Case of Barbuda. Department of Geography, University of New Mexico, November 17. 20) A. Sluyter (invited symposium presenter). 2008. The Cultural-Historic Context for Resource-Use Conflicts in Barbuda. Bowman Expeditions Symposium, Oaxaca and Ixtlán de Júarez, Mexico, August 11-15. 19) A. Sluyter (invited symposium presenter). 2008. The Hispanic Atlantic’s Tasajo Trail. Re- Defining Transatlantic Hispanic Studies Symposium, Louisiana State University, April 21-22. 18) A. Sluyter (invited workshop participant). 2007. Atlantic Studies Programs. Atlantic Studies, Louisiana State University, May 21-22. 17) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2007. New Orleans and the Hispanic Atlantic. Atlantic Studies, Louisiana State University, March 23. 16) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2006. Environmental History and the Greater Caribbean. Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, Louisiana State University, December 6. 15) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2006. Mexican Development and Environment: (Post)colonial Landscapes/Texts. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, May 29 14) A. Sluyter (invited workshop participant). 2005. World Regional Geography Symposium, Galena, Illinois, May 23-26. 13) A. Sluyter (invited panelist). 2005. Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space. American Association of Geographers, 101st Annual Meeting, Denver, April 5-9. 12) A. Sluyter (invited panelist). 2004. Past Issues and Current Opportunities. American Association of Geographers, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 14-19. 11) A. Sluyter (invited workshop participant). 2003. Teaching Latin America in the 21st Century. Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, December 6. 10) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2003. Cultural-Historical Approaches to Improving Development and Conservation Models for Middle America. Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, February 14. 9) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2003. Middle Americanist Cultural-Historical Epistemology, Method, and Data: Continuity and Change. Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, February 13. 8) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2003. Orthodox Development, “TEK,” the Pristine Myth, and Material/Conceptual Landscape Transformation. Department of Geography, Brock University, January 28. 7) A. Sluyter (invited session discussant). 2001. Pre-European Landscapes of the American West: Pristine or Anthropogenic? American Association for the Advancement of Science, 167th National Meeting, San Francisco, February 15-20. 6) A. Sluyter (invited panelist). 2000. Uses of Historical Narratives in Political Ecology and Environmental History. American Association of Geographers, 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, April 4-8. A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 10
5) A. Sluyter (invited session discussant). 2000. Local Livelihoods and External Conservationists in the Developing World. American Society for Environmental History, Tacoma, Washington, March 16-19. 4) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 2000. Latin American Development and Conservation in Context. Latin American Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, February 11. 3) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 1999. Colonial Landscape Transformations in the Americas. Department of Geography and Earth Science, Shippensburg University, February 22. 2) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 1999. Making the Rules We Develop By: Material- Conceptual Landscape Transformation in Colonial Veracruz, the Pristine Myth, and the Colonizer’s Model of the World. Department of Geography, University of California at Los Angeles, March 11. 1) A. Sluyter (invited seminar presenter). 1999. The Continuing Consequences of Colonial Landscape Transformations in the Americas. Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, April 2.
Conference Papers and Abstracts 43) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2016. The African Diaspora and Rangeland Burning in the Colonial Neo- Tropics. American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, California, March 29-April 2. 42) Richard Hunter and A. Sluyter (presenter). 2015. The Use of Colonial Land-Grant Documents and GIS to Reconstruct Soil Carbon Sequestration in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. The 8th European Society for Environmental History Biennial Conference, Versailles, France, June 30- July 3. 41) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2015. Introduction to Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the 18th Century. Congress of Latin Americanist Geographers, Fortaleza, Brazil, May 26-30. 40) A. Sluyter (presented by Case Watkins). 2014. The roles of Africans and Their Descendants in Transforming Cattle Ranching Frontiers in the Americas, 1500s-1800s. World Congress of Environmental History, Guimarães, Portugal, July 8-12. 39) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2014. Historical Political Ecology Meets the Digital Humanities. American Association of Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12. 38) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2013. African Arrivals and Transformations. American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, April 9-13. 37) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2012. The Role of West Africans in Transforming Cattle Ranching on the Pampas of Argentina in the Nineteenth Century. The 37th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, Canada, November 1-4. 36) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2012. Role of Blacks in Transforming Cattle Ranching on the Pampas in the Nineteenth Century. The 54th International Congress of Americanists/Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Vienna, Austria, July 15-20. 35) A. Sluyter (presenter) and Amy E. Potter. 2011. Local Intersections of Global Networks: The Case of Barbuda I. World Human Geography Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, September 15-16. 34) Amy E. Potter and A. Sluyter (presenter). 2011. Local Intersections of Global Networks: The Case of Barbuda II. World Human Geography Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, September 15-16. 33) Richard Hunter (presenter) and A. Sluyter. 2010. How Incipient Colonies Create Territory: The Textual Surveys of New Spain, 1520s‐1620s. New England-St. Lawrence Valley Regional Division of the American Association of Geographers, Storrs, Connecticut, October 29-30. 32) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2009. The Hispanic Atlantic’s Tasajo Trail. American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans, September 30-October 3. 31) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2008. North American Cattle Ranching Frontiers: Views from the Pampas and the Caribbean. Annual Meeting of the Pioneer America Society/Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes, Baton Rouge, October 15-18. A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 11
30) A. Sluyter (presenter) and Amy E. Potter. 2008. Land Use and Tenure in the Leewards. American Association of Geographers, Boston, April 15-19. Abstract in Abstracts of the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 29) Amy E. Potter (presenter) and Andrew Sluyter. 2008. Antigua and Barbuda: Land Tenure and Transnational Migrants in the Antilles. American Association of Geographers, Boston, April 15- 19. Abstract in Abstracts of the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 28) A. Sluyter (presenter) and Amy E. Potter. 2007. Antigua and Barbuda: Land Use and Tenure. Southwestern Division of the American Association of Geographers, Bryan, Texas, 1-3 November. 27) Amy E. Potter (presenter) and Andrew Sluyter. 2007. Antigua and Barbuda: Land Tenure and Transnational Migration. Southwestern Division of the American Association of Geographers, Bryan, Texas, 1-3 November. 26) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2007. Environment, Capital, and Ranching on the Argentine Pampas, 1800s-1900s. American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, April 17-21. Abstract in Abstracts of the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 25) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2007. Environmental History of the Pampas of Argentina. American Society for Environmental History, Baton Rouge, February 28-March 3. 24) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2006. Environmental History of the Argentinean Pampas. American Association of Geographers, Chicago, March 7-11. Abstract in Abstracts of the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 23) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2005. How Wetlands Became Landscape Impurities in Nineteenth- Century Mexico. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Baton Rouge, April 21-23. 22) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2005. Drainage of Mexican Wetlands: Texts and Landscapes. American Association of Geographers, Denver, April 5-9. Abstract in Abstracts of the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 21) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2004. Alexander von Humboldt and (Post)colonial Development in Mexico. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Antigua, Guatemala, May 19-22. Abstract in Conference Program of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Antigua, Guatemala, May 19-22, p. 33. 20) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2004. Alexander von Humboldt, (Post)colonial Mexican Landscapes, and Economic Development as a Cultural Phenomenon. American Association of Geographers, Philadelphia, March 14-19. Abstract in Abstracts of the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 19) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2003. Latin American (Post)colonial Landscapes. Southwestern Division of the American Association of Geographers, Stillwater, Oklahoma, October 23-25. Abstract in 2003 Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts, p. 33. 18) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2001. Human-Environment Interactions, Social/Biophysical Processes, Human/Physical Geography. American Association of Geographers, New York City, February 27-March 2. Abstract in Abstracts of the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 17) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2000. Native American Ecologies: Sight, Hindsight, and Foresight. International Congress of Americanists/Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Warsaw, Poland, July 10-14. 16) A. Sluyter (presenter). 2000. Colonialism, Landscape, and Environmental Conservation. American Association of Geographers, Pittsburgh, April 4-8. Abstract in Abstracts of the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 15) A. Sluyter (presenter), Charles M. Ruffner, and James M. Adovasio. 1998. A Cultural-Ecological Model of Long-Term Landscape Transformation for the Allegheny National Forest. The Society A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 12
for Pennsylvania Archaeology, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, April 24-26. Abstract in 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, p. 27. 14) A. Sluyter (presenter). 1998. Insights into Cultural-Ecological Imperialism from the Sixteenth- Century Livestock Invasion of Veracruz, Mexico. American Association of Geographers, Boston, March 24-29. Abstract in Abstracts of the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, CD-ROM, no pagination. 13) Richard P. Kandare (presenter), Charles M. Ruffner, Jack McLaughlin, Charles Crothers, Andrew Sluyter, and Marc D. Abrams. 1997. Prehistoric Human Adaptations to Changing Ecosystems on the Allegheny National Forest in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Eastern States Archaeological Federation, 64th Annual Meeting, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, November 9. 12) Charles M. Ruffner (presenter), A. Sluyter, Marc D. Abrams, Charles Crothers, Jack McLaughlin, and Richard P. Kandare. 1997. Assessing Native American Disturbances in Mixed Oak Forests of the Allegheny Plateau. The National Silviculture Workshop of the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Warren, Pennsylvania, May 19-22. 11) A. Sluyter (presenter). 1997. The Ecological Consequences of the Introduction of Livestock into the Neotropics: Insights from Mexican Archives. American Association of Geographers, Fort Worth, April 1-5. Abstract in Abstracts of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, p. 246. 10) Charles M. Ruffner (presenter), Marc D. Abrams, and A. Sluyter. 1996. Native American Disturbances in Mixed Oak Forests of the Allegheny Plateau, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium’s Space and Astronomy Day, University Park, Pennsylvania, November 16. 9) A. Sluyter (presented by Eric P. Perramond). 1996. Ganadería Española, Despoblamiento Indígena y Cambio de la Vegetación en las Tierras Bajas Tropicales de Veracruz, México, Siglo XVI. El Seminario Internacional sobre Historia Ambiental de la Ganadería en México, Durango, Mexico, October 16-18. 8) A. Sluyter (presenter). 1996. Sixteenth-Century Livestock Introduction, Native Depopulation, and Vegetation Change in the Tropical Lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico. American Association of Geographers, Charlotte, April 9-13. Abstract in Abstracts of the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, p. 274. 7) A. Sluyter (presenter). 1995. Origin of Anthropic Deforestation in the Tropical Lowlands of Middle America: A 6,000-Year Maize Record. American Association of Geographers, Chicago, March 14-18. Abstract in Abstracts of the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, p. 283. 6) A. Sluyter (presenter). 1994. The Relationship between Sea-Level Change and Prehispanic Wetland Agriculture in Central Veracruz, Mexico. American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, March 29-April 2. Abstract in Abstracts of the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, p. 354. 5) A. Sluyter (presenter). 1992. The Transition from Precolumbian to Colonial Ecologies in Central Veracruz, Mexico. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, September 23-26. 4) A. Sluyter (presenter). 1992. A Quantitative Model for Understanding the Precolumbian, Long- Distance Transport of Maize in Western Mesoamerica. American Association of Geographers, San Diego, April 18-21. Abstract in Abstracts of the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, p. 224. 3) A. Sluyter (presenter) and Alfred H. Siemens. 1991. Prehispanic Field Vestiges on the Piedmont of Central Veracruz, Mexico. American Association of Geographers, Miami, April 13-17. Abstract in Abstracts of the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, p. 186. 2) A. Sluyter (presenter). 1990. New Evidence of Widespread, Intensive Precolumbian Agriculture in Central Veracruz, Mexico. Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Vancouver, Canada, March 9-11. A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 13
1) Alfred H. Siemens (presenter), Mario Navarrete Hernández, and A. Sluyter. 1989. Prehispanic Field Systems on Hill Land in Central Veracruz: Sartorius Reappreciated. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Querétaro, Mexico, May 18-29. Abstract in Program and Abstracts of the Meetings of the 1989 Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, p. 67.
Conference, Symposia, and Session Organizing and Chairing Activities 12) A. Sluyter (conference organizer). 2016-2017. The 2017 Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, New Orleans, January 3-5 (brought together 163 registered participants from 11 countries in 31 sessions with 155 presentations on topics spanning the discipline of geography and in opening and closing receptions and a field trip; see clagscholar.org for details). 11) A. Sluyter (session organizer and chair). 2015. Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the 18th Century. Congress of Latin Americanist Geographers, Fortaleza, Brazil, May 26-30. 10) A. Sluyter (session organizer and chair). 2007. Latin America and the Caribbean. Southwestern Division of the American Association of Geographers, Bryan, Texas, 1-3 November. 9) A. Sluyter (session chair). 2007. Environmental Histories of Pastoralism and Capitalism. American Association of Geographers, 103rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 17-21. 8) A. Sluyter (symposium co-organizer). 2007. Atlantic Studies Speaker Forum. Atlantic Studies, Louisiana State University, March 22-23. 7) A. Sluyter (session organizer and chair). 2006. Environmental History of Latin America. American Association of Geographers, 102nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 7-11. 6) A. Sluyter (session chair). 2004. Historical Geography I. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Antigua, Guatemala, May 19-22. 5) A. Sluyter (session chair). 2001. Integrating Biophysical and Social-Political Approaches to Environmental Change: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges and Prospects. American Association of Geographers, 97th Annual Meeting, New York, New York, February 27-March 2. 4) A. Sluyter (session chair). 2001. The Next Generation: Graduate Student Papers in Cultural/Political Ecology. The American Association of Geographers, 97th Annual Meeting, New York, New York, February 27-March 2. 3) A. Sluyter (panel series co-organizer), Kirstin Dow (panel series co-organizer), William Solecki (panel series co-organizer). 2001. Reflecting on Some Human-Environment Geographies: Commonalities, Differences, Changes. The American Association of Geographers, 97th Annual Meeting, New York, New York, February 27-March 2 (4 sessions, chair of 2). 2) A. Sluyter (session organizer and chair). 2000. Latin America: Environment and Development. American Association of Geographers, 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 4-8. 1) A. Sluyter (symposium co-organizer) and A. H. Siemens (symposium co-organizer). 2000. Native American Ecologies: Past, Present, and Future. International Congress of Americanists/Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, 50th Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, July 10- 14 (7 sessions; 1 roundtable).
TEACHING Positions Since 2017 Professor Department of Geography and Anthropology College of Humanities and Social Sciences Louisiana State University
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2008-17 Associate Professor Department of Geography and Anthropology College of Humanities and Social Sciences Louisiana State University
2003-08 Assistant Professor Department of Geography and Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences Louisiana State University
2001-02 Debilitating illness
1995-02 Assistant Professor Department of Geography College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Pennsylvania State University
Student Evaluations for Recently Taught Courses
Course Title Evaluations (out of 5.00) My Scores Dept. Semester Averages Introduction to Human Geography 5.00 4.49 Human-Environment Interactions 4.78 4.49 Digital Humanities GIS 4.96 4.12 Human-Environment Interactions 4.66 4.12 Digital Humanities GIS 5.00 4.37 Human-Environment Interactions 4.77 4.37 Political Ecology Graduate Seminar 4.58 4.27 Latin America and the Caribbean 4.84 4.27
Graduate Degrees Supervised 11) Ginés Arias Sánchez, PhD, Louisiana State University, in progress since August 2013, Graduate Assistantship (AAG Review of Books Editorial Assistant, 2014/01-2015/12), currently ABD. 10) Peter Kamau, PhD, Louisiana State University, graduated in May 2017. Began in 2013 and completed doctoral program in 4 years. Awarded third place in the student poster competition at the 2013 Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. Awarded a Graduate Dean’s Summer 2016 Research Stipend and a 2016-17 Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the LSU Graduate School. He is now a member of the faculty at Karatina University, Kenya. 9) Case Watkins, PhD, Louisiana State University, graduated in December 2015. Began in 2009 and completed doctoral program in 6 years. Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for 2012 and a 2014-15 Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the LSU Graduate School. Winner the Honorable Mention award for the 2015 LSU Distinguished Dissertation Award. Winner of the 2017 J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award from the American Association of Geographers. Winner of the 2015 J. B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers for co-authorship of Hispanic and Latino New Orleans. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Justice Studies Department at James Madison University. 8) Jamie Worms, PhD, Louisiana State University, graduated in May 2015. Began in 2011 and completed doctoral program in 4 years. Mental Mapping the Transformation of Social Space in A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 15
Rio's Oldest Favela: Morro da Providência. Awarded an Evelyn L. Pruitt Fellowship for 2012-15. She is now an Instructor of Geography in the Latin American Studies Program at Smith College. 7) James P. Chaney, PhD, Louisiana State University, graduated in December 2013. Began in 2007 and completed doctoral program in 6 years. Uncovering Nodes in the Transnational Social Networks of Hispanic Workers. Winner of the 2015 J. B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers for co-authorship of Hispanic and Latino New Orleans. He is now an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of Global Studies and Cultural Geography at Middle Tennessee State University. 6) Amy E. Potter, PhD, Louisiana State University, graduated in December 2011. Began in 2006 and completed doctoral program in 5 years. Transnational Spaces and Communal Land Tenure in a Caribbean Place: “Barbuda is for Barbudans.” Awarded an Evelyn L. Pruitt Fellowship for 2006- 09, the 2008 Hubert G. H. Wilhelm Student Research Award from the Pioneer America Society, a 2009 Dissertation Research Grant from the American Association of Geographers, and a 2010- 11 Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the LSU Graduate School. Winner of the Honorable Mention award for the 2011 LSU Distinguished Dissertation Award. She is now an Assistant Professor of Geography at Armstrong State University, Savannah, Georgia. 5) Richard W. Hunter, PhD, Louisiana State University, graduated in May 2009. Began in 2005 and completed doctoral program in 4 years. People, Sheep, and Landscape Change in Colonial Mexico: The Sixteenth-Century Transformation of the Valle del Mezquital. Winner of the 2009 Student Paper Award of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. Nominated for the 2009 LSU Distinguished Dissertation Award by the Department of Geography and Anthropology. He is now an Assistant Professor of Geography at the State University of New York at Cortland. 4) Ramin D. Zamanian, MA, Louisiana State University, graduated in May 2007. A Material/Conceptual Landscape Analysis of the Virgin of Guadalupe Pilgrimage Site in Mexico City, Mexico. Winner of the 2007 MA paper award of the Latin American Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers; winner of the 2007 MA paper award of the Cultural Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers; and winner of the 2007 MA paper award of the Religions and Belief Systems Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers. He now works as a geography instructor at San Jacinto College, Houston, Texas. 3) Reuben S. Rose-Redwood, MS, Pennsylvania State University, graduated May in 2002. Rationalizing the Landscape: Superimposing the Grid upon the Island of Manhattan. He is now an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada. 2) Nathaniel Hersh, MS, Pennsylvania State University, graduated in May 2000. Landrace Adaptation and Andean Farming Systems: Distribution and Weevil Infestation of Oca Tuber Varieties in Cusco, Peru. He now works as a cartographer at the Federal Aviation Authority. 1) Graeme J. Burt, MS, Pennsylvania State University, graduated in May 1997. The Political Ecology of Regional Landscape Change: Linking the Global and Local in Alamos, Mexico (Co-supervised with D. M. Liverman). Went on to complete a PhD at McGill University. He now works as a community planning and development specialist and is a Principal of rePlan | planningAlliance, a consulting practice headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
SERVICE Editorial Positions Since 2016 Co-Editor-in-Chief (for the Americas), Journal of Historical Geography, Elsevier Publishers, peer-reviewed journal. Since 2016 Series Co-Editor, Latin American Studies, Springer-Nature Publishers, peer-reviewed book series. Since 2015 Series Co-Editor, Springer Briefs in Latin American Studies, Springer-Nature Publishers, peer-reviewed book series. A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 16
Since 2015 Member, Editorial Board, Historical Geography, peer-reviewed journal. 2007-12 Associate Editor, Geographical Review, peer-reviewed journal. 2006-08 Associate Editor, Journal of Latin American Geography, peer-reviewed journal.
Positions in Professional Organizations Since 2017 Member of the Local Arrangements Committee for the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans. Since 2015 Land-use co-coordinator for North America, LandCover6k working group, PAGES (Past Global Changes) project, Future Earth/International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. Since 2015 Executive Director, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. Since 2015 Chair, Book Series Publication Committee, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. Since 2006 Member, Research Committee, US National Section, Pan-American Institute of Geography and History/Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, Organization of American States/Organización de los Estados Americanos. 2006-09 Member of the Publications Committee, American Association of Geographers. 2006-08 Ex-officio Member of the Publications Committee, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 2006-07 Member of the Honors Committee, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 2005-08 Elected Member of the Board of Directors, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 2000-02 Elected Chair of the Cultural Ecology Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers. 1999-02 Member of the Local Arrangements Committee for the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Pittsburgh.
Memberships in Professional Organizations American Geographical Society, American Association of Geographers, Caribbean Studies Association, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Latin American Studies Association
Reviews of Grant Proposals and Promotion and Tenure Cases Fulbright US Scholar Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, Oesterreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds/Austrian Science Fund, Coypu Foundation, Colgate University, Princeton University, US Army Research Office.
Reviews of Article, Book, and Textbook Manuscripts American Antiquity, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Antipode, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Yearbook, Cultural Geographies, Economic Geography, Environment and History, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Environmental History, Environmental Management, Geoforum, Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography, The Geographical Journal, The Geographical Review, Global Environmental Change, Hispanic American Historical Review, Historical Geography, Island Studies Journal, Journal of American History, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Cultural Geography, Journal of Geography, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Latin American Geography, Latin American Antiquity, Nature + Culture, Professional Geographer, Quaternary Science Reviews, Technology and Culture, The Latin Americanist, Water Policy, William and Mary Quarterly, British Columbia Open University, Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, A. Sluyter CV—July 14, 2017 17
McGraw-Hill, Office of Naval Research, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Prentice Hall, Taylor & Francis, W. H. Freeman, Louisiana State University Press, University of Alabama Press.