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