Matthew Shutzer, Assistant Professor

Please note: Matthew has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

I am an environmental historian of South Asia and the post-colonial world, with research and teaching interests in science and technology studies, global development, empire and decolonization, critical approaches to property and the commons, and the history of capitalism broadly construed. In recent years, I have been completing a book-length project on India and the global history of fossil fuels from the nineteenth century to the present. This work attempts to thematize the intersections between carbon energy, global inequality, and the planetary crisis of climate change. 

Before joining Duke in 2023, I was a Junior Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and the Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	318 Classroom Building, 1356 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705
Email Address:

Education:

Ph.D.

New York University

2019

Recent Publications

1. Shutzer, M, Oil, Money and Decolonization in South Asia, Past & Present, vol. 258 no. 1 (February, 2023), pp. 212-245, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs]
2. Shutzer, M; Kodiveri, A, “A Vast Bed of Combustible Fuel”, Radical History Review, vol. 2023 no. 145 (January, 2023), pp. 13-36, Duke University Press [doi]  [abs]
3. Acker, A; Chatterjee, E; Becker, L; Shutzer, M; Capellini, N, Fossil Fuels from Extraction to Emissions, in The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History (January, 2023), pp. 229-243, ISBN 9781032003597 [doi]  [abs]
4. Shutzer, M, Subterranean Properties: India's Political Ecology of Coal, 1870–1975, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 63 no. 2 (April, 2021), pp. 400-432, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
5. Shutzer, M, Energy in South Asian history, History Compass, vol. 18 no. 12 (December, 2020), WILEY [doi]  [abs]