Andrew Sluyter Awarded Carnegie Fellowship
4/26/2022
Dr. Andrew Sluyter, 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and professor in the LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology
Photo Credit: Katherine Seghers, LSU
BATON ROUGE—Andrew Sluyter, professor in the LSU Department of Geography & Anthropology in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, has been named as a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New
York. Sluyter and LSU Manship School of Mass Communication Assistant Professor Joshua
P. Darr, who also received a fellowship this year, are the first Carnegie Fellows
in LSU history.
“This is an incredible achievement for Dr. Sluyter, the Department of Geography &
Anthropology, the College, and the entire University,” said Troy Blanchard, dean of
the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. “Moreover, Dr. Sluyter has made LSU history
and the outstanding scholarship he has produced during his career is deserving of
such an extraordinary honor.”
Sluyter’s research focuses on understanding racialized places and landscapes in order
to contribute to decolonization, a more equitable and inclusive society, and more
sustainable and just relationships with nature. In addition to authoring numerous
books, including his most recent award-winning work titled, Hispanic and Latino New
Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century, he has over three
decades of experience doing field and archival research in Louisiana, Latin America,
the Caribbean, and Europe.
"I'm enormously gratified to have received such a nationally prominent honor and have
to acknowledge the college, university, and Board of Regents for their support for
much of the scholarship that has lead up to this moment as well as the wonderful graduate
students and undergraduate interns who collaborated with me on that research over
the two decades I've been at LSU," said Sluyter.
The Carnegie Foundation funds significant research and writing in the social sciences
and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting society. As
part of the fellowship, Sluyter will work on his project titled, Slavery and Higher
Education: New Narratives on the Plantation Past, New Places for Racial Equity, to
help colleges built on former slave plantations understand that aspect of campus place
identity in relation to higher education’s racial inequities.
Sluyter is also the recipient of the 2017 Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship
Award from the Conference of Latin American Geography, the 2015 John Brinckerhoff
Jackson Book Prize, the 2004 James M. Blaut Award in Recognition of Innovative Scholarship
from the American Association of Geographers, and he was a 2012-2013 Digital Innovation
Fellow from the American Council of Learned Societies.
He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Additional Links
LSU Carnegie Announcement: https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2022/04/26ored_carnegie_darr_sluyter.php
Andrew Carnegie Fellows: https://www.carnegie.org/awards/award/andrew-carnegie-fellows/
Contact Sarah Gaar Keller
LSU College of Humanities & Social Sciences