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Eric D. Carter is a human geographer with research and teaching interests in political ecology, health geography, international development, and environmental history, with a regional focus on Latin America. Born and raised in California, he received his B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, and his M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2005) in Geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He joined the Grinnell faculty in 2007, after teaching for two years at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. As part of the EKI (Expanding Knowledge Initiative) at Grinnell, Eric teaches an array of interdisciplinary courses that promote spatial and geographical perspectives in the curriculum, including Geographical Analysis and Cartography, Health Geography, and Global Development Studies, in addition to the Latin American Cultures course in Anthropology.
His Ph.D. thesis, co-winner of the 2006 Jacques May Thesis Prize in Medical Geography, examined the social and environmental dynamics of malaria control in Northwest Argentina from 1890 to the present. Portions of this thesis have been revised and published in the Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Latin American Geography, Geoforum, and Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. In addition to this research project, he has also studied the political ecology of shrimp farming in Ecuador (for M.S. thesis), agricultural biodiversity conservation in Mexico, conservation policy trends in Latin America, and political geography and identity in Argentina.
Eric is currently pursuing two main research projects. One is a book manuscript entitled Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Nationalism, and Development in Argentina, a version of his dissertation. Newer research, in its preliminary stages, seeks to understand how environmental values, attitudes, and behaviors are shaped by international migration and transnationalism, with a specific focus on Mexican immigrants to the U.S. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Publications:
"Misiones Province, Argentina: How Borders Shape Political Identity." In Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation State, Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen (eds.). Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
"'God Bless General Perón': DDT and the Endgame of Malaria Eradication in Argentina in the 1940s." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 64 (2009): 78-122.
"State Visions, Landscape, and Disease: Discovering Malaria in Argentina, 1890-1920." Geoforum 39 (2008): 278-293.
"Malaria, Landscape, and Society in Northwest Argentina in the Early Twentieth Century." Journal of Latin American Geography 7 (2008): 7- 38.
"Paludismo, sociedad y medio ambiente en el Noroeste Argentino a principios del siglo veinte." Traducción del articulo publicado en Journal of Latin American Geography 7 (2008). carter_JLAG_traduccion.pdf
"Development Narratives and the Uses of Ecology: Malaria Control in Northwest Argentina, 1890-1940." Journal of Historical Geography 33 (2007): 619-650.
