麻豆传媒

An environmental and economic anthropologist by training, Hirsch鈥檚 research focuses on what it means to experience, enact, and embody economic growth, especially in places acutely affected by weather and climate extremes. His first book,  (Stanford University Press, 2022), investigated these topics in southern Andean Peru鈥檚 Colca Valley. His newer , scoped more comparatively between Peru, the Maldives, and the United States, asks about growth in the context of adaptation projects, , and infrastructure associated with resilience.

B.A. (Anthropology and English), Columbia University, 2009

M.A. (Sociocultural Anthropology), University of Chicago, 2012

Ph.D. (Sociocultural Anthropology), University of Chicago, 2016

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Book

Hirsch, Eric. 2022. Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Peer-reviewed research articles

1.  Reyes-Garc铆a, Victoria, and the LICCI Network (53 co-authors, incl. Eric Hirsch). 2024. 鈥淚ndigenous peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local systems and livelihoods.鈥� Communications Earth and Environment 5(29): 1-10. 

2. Hirsch, Eric. 2023. 鈥淔orced Emplacement: Flood Exposure and Contested Confinements, from the Colony to Climate Migration.鈥� Environment and Society: Advances in Research (Fall 2023 issue on 鈥淔ire and Flood). 14(1): 14-22. 

3. Paulson, Susan, Eric Hirsch, and Jonathan DeVore. 2022. 鈥淐aring Masculinities: Stories of Interspecies Love in the Andes and Atlantic Forest.鈥� General Anthropology Bulletin 29(1): 10-14. 

4. Hirsch, Eric. 2020. 鈥淗idden Treasures: Marca Per煤 (PeruTM) and the Recoding of Neoliberal Sustainability in the Peruvian Andes.鈥� Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 15(3): 245-269. 

5. Hirsch, Eric, Chelsey Kivland, and Yana Stainova. 2020. 鈥淪elf Exposures: The Political Arts of Ethnoracial Identification in Latin America and the Caribbean.鈥� Introduction to Special Issue on 鈥淎rts of Exposure.鈥� Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 15(3): 201-218. (equal co-authorship) 

6. Ismael Vaccaro, Eric Hirsch, and Irene Sabat茅. 2020. 鈥淭he Emergence of the Global Debt Society: Governmentality and Profit Extraction through Fabricated Abundance and Imposed Scarcity in Peru and Spain.鈥� Focaal 87: 46-60. 

7. Devore, Jonathan, Eric Hirsch, and Susan Paulson. 2019. 鈥淐onserving Human and Other Nature: A Curious Case of Convivial Conservation from Brazil.鈥� Anthropologie et Soci茅t茅s 43(3): 31-58. 

8. Hirsch, Eric. 2018. 鈥淩emapping the Vertical Archipelago: Mobility, Migration, and the Everyday Labor of Andean Development.鈥� The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 23(1): 189-208. 

9. Hirsch, Eric. 2017. 鈥淚nvestment鈥檚 Rituals: 鈥楪rassroots鈥� Extractivism and the Making of an Indigenous Gold Mine in the Peruvian Andes.鈥� Geoforum Vol. 82: 259-267. 

10.   Hirsch, Eric. 2017. 鈥淭he Unit of Resilience: Unbeckoned Degrowth and the Politics of (Post)Development in Peru and the Maldives.鈥� Journal of Political Ecology. 24(1): 462-475. 

11.   Hirsch, Eric. 2016. 鈥淢ediating Indigeneity: Public Space and the Making of Political Identity in Andean Peru.鈥� PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 39(1): 95-109. 

12.   Hirsch, Eric. 2015. 鈥溾�業t Won鈥檛 Be Any Good to Have Democracy if we Don鈥檛 Have a Country鈥�: Climate Change and the Politics of Synecdoche in the Maldives.鈥� Global Environmental Change 35: 190-198. 

Peer-reviewed contributions to edited volumes 

1. Hirsch, Eric. 2024. 鈥溾�楴ot Like it Used to Be鈥�: Contending with the Altered Agricultural Calendar in Peru.鈥� In Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, edited by Victoria Reyes Garcia. London: Routledge. 

2. Paulson, Susan, Jonathan DeVore, and Eric Hirsch. 2022. 鈥淐onvivial Conservation with Nurturing Masculinities in Brazil鈥檚 Atlantic Forest.鈥� In Convivial Futures. Views from Tomorrow, edited by Frank Adloff and Alain Caill茅. Columbia University Press/Transcript Publishing. pp.113-125. 

3. Hirsch, Eric. 2020. 鈥淓thnicity as Potential: Abundance, Competition, and the Limits of Development in Andean Peru鈥檚 Colca Valley.鈥� In Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation, edited by John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, and George Paul Meiu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 94-119. 

4. Hirsch, Eric. 2020. 鈥淪ustainable Development.鈥� Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, edited by Mark Aldenderfer. New York: Oxford University Press. 

5. Hirsch, Eric and Kyle Jones. 2019. 鈥淗ip Hop and Guinea Pigs: Contextualizing the Urban Andes.鈥� In The Andean World, edited by Kathleen Fine-Dare and Linda Seligmann. London: Routledge. (Series: The Routledge Worlds). pp. 555-569.

1. External Project Funding

2024-27        鈥淭he Agricultural Futures Archive: Rural & Urban Growers in the Shadow of the Solar Panel鈥� Mellon Foundation 鈥� Grantmaking Area: Higher Learning
Role: PI
Award amount: $500,000

2025-27        Early Career Faculty Innovator Program Grant
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Role: PI
Award amount: $250,000
*Proposal selected; all grants in 2025 cohort halted due to US Executive Orders

2024-25        鈥淩eckoning with Lancaster 鈥� Year 1: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Land Question鈥�
Mellon Foundation 鈥� Grantmaking Area: Humanities for All Times
Role: Faculty Fellow (PI: Jon Stone)
Award amount: $500,000 (co-managing year 1 budget of total $1.4 million grant)

2019-22        鈥淟ocal Indicators of Climate Change Impacts鈥�
European Research Council/Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona ICTA
Role: Research Partner for Peru (PI: Victoria Reyes-Garc铆a)  
Award amount: $5000 + cohort workshop support

2021             Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa
Role: Fellow in Residence           

2017             鈥淎fter Development: Reconsidering Investment鈥檚 Promises with Participant Testimony鈥�
Wenner-Gren Foundation Engaged Anthropology Grant  
Role: PI
Award amount: $5000

 2015-16        Mellon Foundation Hanna Holborn Gray Dissertation Fellowship
Award amount: $60,000 

2014-15        Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship   
Award amount: $25,000                            

2013-14        Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Award amount: $9,000          

2013-14        Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowship
Award amount: $25,000 + cohort workshop support                            

2013-14        UC Irvine Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion Research Grant 
Award amount: $10,000 + cohort workshop support 

2013-14        Fulbright Scholarship, Institute of International Education (declined)                   

2012             Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship 
Award amount: $5,000 + cohort workshop support                    

2011-12        Foreign Language and Area Studies Title VI Fellowship for Quechua language instruction
Award amount: $6,000 as course tuition            

 

2. Internal Grants and Awards: Franklin & 麻豆传媒

 

2024             Committee on Grants Faculty Research Grant ($1000)

2024             Hackman Summer Student Scholars Fund ($6000)

2024             Bolton Humanities and Social Sciences Exploration Grant ($1000)

2024             Finalist, Affordability Awards (for accessible course materials), 麻豆传媒 Diplomatic Congress

2022-23        Catalyst Fund Grant for 鈥淐limate Migration in Five Communities: A Pilot Study鈥� ($10,000)

2021-22        Susan and Benjamin Winter Visual Arts Center Cross-Pollinator Residency

2021-22        Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster Seed Grant ($9,500)

2020             麻豆传媒 Faculty Center Academic Innovation Grant ($500)                                  

2019-20        Center for Sust. Engagement with Lancaster Seed Grant and Student Scholars Fund ($6000)

2019         Hackman Summer Student Scholars Fund ($10,000)                                                         

2019             Research Travel Grants (Peru), Office of College Grants/Committee on Grants ($5,000)

2018-19        Invited participant, Environments Mellon Humanities Colloquium ($1000 + workshop support)

         

3. Internal Grants and Awards: University of Chicago

2016             Wayne C. Booth Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Office of the Provost       
2016             Ignacio Mart铆n Bar贸 Prize Lectureship in Latin American Studies                     
2015             Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Prize Lectureship   
2012             Center for Latin American Studies Field Research Grant   
2010-2015    University Fellowship for Graduate Study (declined 2014-15)

 

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