People
Staff
Lewis Daly lectures in Social and Environmental Anthropology at University College London (UCL) - and works on human-plant engagements in Amazonia
Anna Gosden is an archaeologist, illustrator, forager, and is in awe of all things plants.
Alex Greene grew up hoping to become a 19th century naturalist
Kay E. Lewis-Jones currently works in environmental policy analysis and spends her free time, ideally, walking in the fresh air with friends
Aurora Prehn is a doctoral candidate in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and Kew Gardens and is a consultant for the Missouri Botanical Garden on their Ethnobotany Collections and Data
Fareeha Siddique graduated from UCL in 2017, and will soon begin a horticulture certificate programme in British Columbia, Canada
Contributors
Thomas Auffray is a post-doctoral researcher at the French Research Institute for Development
Nalan Azak recently completed a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology, and currently works in healthcare management as a support officer
Jordi Bascompte is Professor of Ecology at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich
Yota Batsaki is executive director of Dumbarton Oaks and principal investigator of its Plant Humanities Initiative
Anne-Gaël Bilhaut is a representative of the French Research Institute for Development in Ecuador
Charis Boke works at the intersection of medical anthropology, political ecology, and science and technology studies in the United States
Jesse Boyes is a journalist by hobby, woodworker by trade
Fabian Broeker is a PhD candidate at the Culture, Media, and Creative Industries department at King’s College, London
Steeve Buckridge is Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA. He specialises in African history and Caribbean history, material culture, and dress.
Josefina Buschmann is a sociologist and film director, and currently on a MA in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Esthela Calderón is a poet and visual artist whose most recent books include the bilingual anthology of her selected poetry The Bones of My Grandfather (2018) and Paper Beehive (2021)
Mark Charlton attempts to understand how we can all live in a more nurturing, artistic, and less impactful way within our environment
Carson Colenbaugh is a poet and forest ecologist
Caroline Cornish is an historical geographer at Royal Holloway, University of London and Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Olivier Dangles is Deputy Chief Science Officer in charge of Sustainability Science at the French Research Institute for Sustainable Development
Felix Driver is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and an Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kate Farley is a cultural anthropologist and an assistant scientist in the William L Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Karsten Fatur is an ethnobotanist whose work focuses on the uses of medicinal and psychoactive plants
Þóra Fjeldsted is an Icelandic academic and documentary filmmaker
Jessie Fly is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida, specializing in environmental anthropology
Claudia J. Ford has been a professor for over twenty years and is currently on the faculty of State University of New York at Potsdam
Fabrizio Frascaroli is an Italian ethno-ecologist
Monica Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology at Southern Cross University, where she directs the BI Lab supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation
Angelo Giammarresi is a director, documentary filmmaker, video editing teacher, multimedia producer, and self-taught ethnographer
Piergiorgio di Giminiani is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Maddie Grubb is a senior political science major studying at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida
Malvika Gupta is a D.Phil. candidate in the international development department at the University of Oxford
Steffan Gwynn is a landscape architect based in Edinburgh
Jason Hirsch is commencing a Ph.D. this autumn at the University of Toronto, set to focus on climate change and the radical imagination
Adam Johnson holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford where he researched human-nature interactions in cities
Glenn H. Shepard Jr. is an ethnobotanist, medical anthropologist, and filmmaker based at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) in Belém, Brazil.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Elizabeth Kuroyedov is currently a Researcher with the Firelight Group working in Traditional Knowledge and Use Studies and Indigenous Health
Sarah Laborde is a Research Fellow at the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia
Anna Lawrence is an AHRC-funded PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge
Kristine Lawson is a West Coast settler woman of Turtle Island working on bringing matters of science and spirit together in useful ways
Rebecca Lazarou works on the Medicinal Plant Naming System at Kew Gardens, and is research and design scientist at Three Spirit
Claire Liss believes that we are all related, including the plants, who have been some of her greatest teachers
Andrés Lomeña is a teacher of philosophy and a regular contributor at Huffington Post
Catharina Lüder is a social anthropologist and tries to understand how our living together with plants changes by influences of climate change
Luis Eduardo Luna is director of Wasiwaska, Research Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art, and Consciousness, Florianópolis, Brazil
Jessica MacCormick is a photographer, and is currently documenting the gardens of her neighbours in Hackney, London
Jack Martin focuses on his passion for good ingredients, locality and taste in the fine dining scene of Ireland and the Netherlands
Mike Maunder is the Director of Life Sciences at the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK
Evan Meyer is a botanist, horticulturalist, and all around plant lover - and Assistant Director of the UCLA Botanical Garden, a mature and diverse urban oasis in West LA
Theresa L. Miller is an Environmental Social Scientist at the Field Museum in Chicago who studies human-environment interactions in South America
Rommel Montúfar is a senior researcher in the Department of Biology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE)
Jeremy Narby studied history at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University
Deepa Natarajan works at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkley
Mark Nesbitt is an ethnobotanist and is Senior Research Leader for Economic Botany at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as well as curator of the Economic Botany Collection.
Dario Novellino is an honorary fellow at the Centre for Biocultural Diversity (CBCD) of the University of Kent (UK)
Ryuhei Oishi graduated from University College London (UCL) in 2018 with a BSc in Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies
Redell Olsen is a writer and visual artist whose work includes poetry, bookworks, performance and film
Kristi Onzik is an ethnographer of science with a doctorate in sociocultural anthropology from the University of California Davis
Felix Padel is currently a Research Associate at the University of Sussex
Faidon Papadakis investigates how gardening, as a multi-species practice, relates to, and generates ecological thought
A. C. Pauker is a senior double majoring in anthropology and theater at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Craig Santos Perez is an Indigenous Chamoru poet from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam)
Raj Puri is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology and the Director of the Centre for Biocultural Diversity (CBCD) at the University of Kent
Cassandra Quave is the herbarium curator and associate professor of dermatology and human health at Emory University
Nick Randal is an educational designer in the Discipline of Pharmacology at the University of Sydney
Alice Rudge is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at UCL
John Charles Ryan is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia.
Danielle Sands is Senior Lecturer in comparative literature and culture at Royal Holloway, University of London
Lindsay Sekulowicz is an artist and writer, and is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD on ethnobotanical artefacts of the Northwest Amazon, at the University of Brighton and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
MK Smaby is the principal of Land Office in LA, a research and design collaborative that investigates the history and near future of horticultural technologies
Jillian Stansbury is a physician with 30 years of experience acting as the medical director of Battle Ground Healing Arts in SW WA state
Kristi Stari is a senior biochemistry major at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida
Irene Teixidor-Toneu is a junior professor at the French Research Institute for Sustainable Development based at the Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology, Marseille
Kate Teltscher is writer, researcher and academic whose latest book, Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew, has received widespread acclaim.
Giorgia Tresca explores the world of plants personally as well as academically, through reading, cooking, foraging, and observation
Patrícia Vieira is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Daniel Whistler is Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London and has particular interests in philosophies of nature in modernity
Dunia González Zeas is an independent researcher who collaborates with the French Research Institute for Development