Andrew Bauer
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2010
Research Interests:
Political Ecology, Nature/Culture, Environmental Anthropology, Materiality, Space/Place/Landscape, Archaeological Theory, South Asia
ABOUT
Andrew Bauer is an anthropological archaeologist whose research and teaching interests broadly focus on the archaeology of human-environment relations, including the socio-politics of land use and both symbolic and material aspects of producing spaces, places, and landscapes. Andrew's primary research is based in South India, where he co-directs fieldwork investigating the relationships between landscape history, cultural practices, and institutionalized forms of social inequalities and difference during the region’s Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic, and Medieval periods. As an extension of his archaeological work he is also interested in the intersections of landscape histories and modern framings of nature that relate to conservation politics and climate change.
HONORS & AWARDS
- Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, for “Conquering Soils or Cultivating Sovereignty: The Social History of Regur and the Cultural Construction of Fertility on the Raichur Doab, Southern India”
- "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent." University of Illinois, 2012-13, 2013-14.
- LAS Conference Proposal Fund, University of Illinois, for "Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, 2014"
- Outstanding Oral Presentation Award, Geological Society of America, NorthCentral and South-Central Annual Meeting, for “The Archaeology of Granitic Residual Hills and Other Landscape Features of Prehistoric South India.
