MATTHEW BARTON SHUTZER
e. ms1164@duke.edu
APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of Environmental History, Department of History, Duke University, 2023 -
Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2019 – 2023
S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy
College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 2020 - 2022
Landhaus Fellow
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, 2022 (awarded)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Modern South Asia, Department of History, New York University, 2019
B.A. History and International Affairs, Northeastern University, 2010
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Trent Research Fellowship in Medical History, 2023 - 2024
Social Science Research Council InterAsia Academy Fellowship, 2021
ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2018 – 2019
American Historical Association Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant, 2018
New York University Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2018 – 2019
New York University Abu Dhabi Dissertation Writing Fellowship (awarded)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, 2016 – 2017
Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2015 – 2016
American Institute for Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship, 2015 – 2016
New York University Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, 2012 – 2017
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Grant, 2017
New York University Provost’s Fellowship for Global Research, 2015
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2014
New York University Department of History Travel Grant, 2014
New York University Department of History Summer Research Grant, 2013
American Institute for Indian Studies Summer Language Grant, 2013
Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship, 2011 – 2012
University of Wisconsin-Madison FLAS Fellowship, Bangla, 2011
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
“A Total System: Fazlur Rahman Khan and Third World Urbanism in the Cold War,” (in progress)
“Capital, Earth, and Image: India’s Extractive Photography,” (under review for Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Special Issue, “Materializing Land”)
“A Vast Bed of Combustible Fuel: Sovereign Power and the Underground Commons in the Indian Anthropocene,” (with Arpitha Kodiveri), The Radical History Review Issue 145 (2023): 13 – 36.
“Oil, Money, and Decolonization in South Asia,” Past and Present 258 (1), 2023: 212 – 245.
“Subterranean Properties: India’s Political Ecology of Coal, 1870 – 1975,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 63 (2), 2021
“Energy in South Asia,” History Compass 18 (12), 2020
“The practice of custom in India’s Forest Rights Act: Case studies from Kalahandi, Odisha,” SAMAJ: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 7 (2013): 1 – 17.
Book Chapters
“Three Logics of Indian Socialism,” in Su Lin Lewis and Nana Osei-Opare (ed.), Development Dreams from the Global South (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024)
“Fossil Fuels: From Extraction to Emissions,” co-authored with Elizabeth Chatterjee, Antoine Acker, Nathalia, Nathalia Capellini, and Lukas Becker in The Routledge Handbook on Environmental History (forthcoming 2024)
“Everyday Forest Rights: Property, Community and the State in Kalahandi District,” in Uday Chandra and Daniel Taghioff (eds.), Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Book Reviews
Dolly Kikon, Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeastern India (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), reviewed in H-Environment, July 2022
Macarena Gomez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), reviewed in Enterprise and Society (Published online: October 23, 2018)
Sultan-i-Rome, Land and Forest Governance in Swat: Transition from Tribal System to State to Pakistan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), reviewed in Agricultural History, 92 (1), 2018
Shashank Kela, A Rogue and Peasant Slave: Adivasi Resistance, 1800 – 2000 (New Delhi: Navayana, 2012), reviewed in Contemporary South Asia, 21 (2), 2013
Lorena Anton and Timothy Brown (eds.), Between the Avant-Garde and the Everyday: Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011), reviewed in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest, 12 (4), 2013
Journalistic Articles and Occasional Pieces
“Social Theory from the Global South,” Borderlines – Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (w/ Meghna Chaudhuri), February 15, 2021
“Fossil Fuel Archives,” Archives of Economic Life in South and Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Center for History and Economics (July 15, 2019)
“From Standing Rock to Jharkhand: India and the Global Energy Crisis,” Warscapes, November 29, 2016