Matthew Plishka
Center for Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Studies
matthew.r.plishka@vanderbilt.edu
Education
- 2022 PhD, History, University of Pittsburgh
- 2016 MA, Social Sciences, University of Chicago
- 2015 BA, History and Government/Law, Lafayette College
professional APPOINTMENTS
- 2022–2025 Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- “Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica’s Sugar Industry, 1910-1940,” Agricultural History, 2024
- “Caribbean Environmental History through Banana Disease,” Environment and History, 2024
- “Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana Disease ‘Solution’ in Late-Colonial Jamaica,” Environment & Society Portal, 2024
- “Malignant Microbes: Using Environmental History to Connect the Fields of Plant and Human Epidemiology,” Journal for the History of Environment and Society, 2021
Teaching
Vanderbilt University
- Environmental Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean
- History of Environmental Law in Latin America and the Caribbean
University of Pittsburgh
- Modern Latin American History
- World Environmental History