Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Boston University's College of Arts & Sciences and affiliated faculty with the Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). His research focuses on climate crisis intersections with Indigenous environmental relations, renewable energy transitions, and political economies in Latin America. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and a BA from Universidad Central de Venezuela.

His primary research projects include Wind Futures: Indigeneity, Aerial Worlds, and the Making of Renewable Energy in Colombia, examining Indigenous Wayuu communities in La Guajira, and Vanishing Oil: Infrastructural Ruins and Post-Carbon Futures in Latin America, exploring post-carbon imaginaries near petrochemical sites. His work appears in journals like American Ethnologist and Economic Anthropology.

Research funding comes from the Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren, Tinker, and Mellon Foundations. His interdisciplinary approach bridges environmental anthropology, political ecology, and Indigenous studies.