Gabe Eckhouse, PhD
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Uppsala University, Sweden
I study the end of oil
I research how the contested energy transition impacts investment into petroleum production, and the convergence of the transition with preexisting geologic and geopolitical problems in the industry.
Featured publication: Eckhouse, G., 2021, “United States hydraulic fracturing’s short-cycle revolution and the global oil industry’s uncertain future,” Geoforum (link)
I am broadly interested in energy and capitalist development. My dissertation explored the causes and consequences of extreme oil-market dysfunction as the renewable energy transition began. My current research examines barriers to large-scale capital mobilization into renewables and critical minerals.
My courses make sense of contemporary social and environmental problems through an exploration of the history of economic development and natural resources.
My work and teaching is rooted in a concern with the unequal society we live in.
I put on readings of Shakespeare’s comedies for friends and colleagues twice a year.
I use cooking as an experimental way to teach history, and volunteer for a non-profit as a head chef.
You can contact me here.
Photos: Oil derricks south of Los Angeles (Ted Hurley, 1940); my wife, Emelie, myself, and our cat Kahless; an early semi-motorized combine taken in Australia by an unknown photographer with the Kerry photography company around the turn of the century (link); graffiti in an abandoned Soviet submarine base in Estonia (photographed by me in May, 2016); me working in the garden at Deep Springs College in 2009.