Peter Sutoris

Peter Sutoris is an Associate Professor in Climate and Development at the University of Leeds, where his expertise includes environmental anthropology, environmental and sustainability education, environmental justice, and social movements. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, completed as a Gates Scholar, and a BA summa cum laude from Dartmouth College.

He is the author of Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948–75 (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence (MIT Press, 2022). His research draws on anthropology, education, development studies, and environmental studies, with a focus on how communities imagine alternative futures amid environmental change.