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 Peruvian 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 upends 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
Peru, Modern Latin America, Environmental History
Key Publications
‘The Great Agrarian Property?’ Estate Landholding in the Peruvian Highlands, 1900-1969,’ Journal of Latin American Studies (2025), 1-28 (print edition forthcoming)
‘Las expropiaciones de la reforma agraria de 1969,’ in Elizabeth Montañez Sanabría eds. Cartografía histórica del Perú: Desde 1529 hasta el siglo XXI (Lima, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Fondo Editorial; Santiago, Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2024)
Teaching
INTL 3000 Foundational International Area Studies
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