Matthew Turetsky
PhD Student
- Porter Hall 225C
Education
- B.A. in Mathematics; B.A. in Spanish, Franklin & Marshall College, 2021
Interest Area(s)
Environmental History; 20th Century Latin America; Andean Studies; Food Studies
Awards and Fellowships
Fulbright U.S. Student Research Award, 2024-25 (Bolivia)
Boren Fellow 2024 (Quechua, Peru)
Agricultural History Society Research Grant 2023
Dumbarton Oaks Plant Humanities Initiative Summer Program, 2023
Publications
“Quinoa: From Indigenous Crop to International Superfood,” Plant Humanities Lab, 1 April 2024, .
“Quinoa: The Rise of an Andean Superfood,” JSTOR Daily, Plant of the Month, 24 November 2023, .
Conference Papers (Selected)
“Making Quinoa Modern: Agriculture and Nutrition Expertise in Peru, 1930-1975,” Modern Societies in the Age of the Green Revolution, Seminar, Instituto Mora, 22-23 April 2024.
“Quinoa, Modern Agriculture, and Alternative Grains in the Peruvian Altiplano,”American Society for Environmental History, 3-7 April 2024.
“‘Conserving “Lost Crops of the Incas’: Quinoa Cultivation, Germplasm Banks, and Indigenous Peasants in 20th Century Peru,” Simposio de la Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA), 19-24 June 2023.