Rohan Chatterjee | Assistant Professor
Rohan Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
CTIHB 225
About
I am a historian of Peru, modern Latin America, and the environment. My current book project traces the dramatic expansion and intensification of peasant agriculture over the twentieth century. Today most people think of peasant agriculture as an increasingly marginal activity, an anachronistic holdover form an agrarian past doomed to disappear. And yet, following a period of unprecedented demographic growth, I show how the Andean countryside filled with a historic number of people who began to farm at a previously unimaginable scale, upending the ecological status quo in the process. In so doing, this book reconsiders a series of received wisdoms in Peruvian, Latin American and Environmental History.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
- M.A., University of Chicago
- B.A., University of Manchester
Research Focus
Modern Latin America, Environmental History, Global History
Key Publications
“The Great Agrarian Property: Estate Landholding in the Peruvian Highland, 1900-1968,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol 57. 1 (February 2025), 1-28.
“Las expropiaciones de la reforma agraria peruana,” in La historia del Perú en mapas: Desde 1529 hasta el siglo XXI, Elizabeth Montañez-Sanabria (eds.). (Lima, Santiago de Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Instituto Riva-Agüero, Centro de Investigaciones Barros Arana) 2024.
Teaching
INTL 3000: Foundational International Area Studies
HIST 1510: World History Since 1500
HIST 4300: The Latin American Cold War
Awards
Provost’s Dissertation Fellowship 2024
Dissertation Fellow, Center for International Social Science Research 2024
Fulbright-Hays DDRA 2021
Mellon Research Fellowship 2020
Tinker Field Research Grant, 2017 & 2019
Foreign Language Area Studies 2018