Education
Ph.D. in Geography (University of
Texas at Austin) 2003
MA in Latin American Studies (Tulane University) 1998
BA in Latin American Studies (Vassar
College) 1991
Research Interests
Ethnobotany
Latin America
World Cultures and Environments
Environmental Issues
Rain Forest Ecosystems
Teaching
GEA 2000-World Geography
GEA 4410-Latin America Culture
Conservation and Land Use
Plants and People
List of Theses
Supervised
Recent Publications
Fadiman, M. Cultural Connect with Local Megafauna: Maori and the Kauri. The
Florida Geographer (Accepted for publication).
Fadiman, M. Basketry, Conservation and Marketing of Piquigua, Heteropsis
ecuadorensis, (Araceae) in an Afro-Ecuadorian Community. Book chapter in African
Ethnobotany in the Americas. (Under review).
Fadiman, M. 2010. How Cultural Awareness and Ingenuity Benefits Forest Stewardship
Council Certification in the Developing World: Case Study in Zimbabwe, Africa. Papers
of the Applied Geography Conferences (Accepted for Publication).
Fadiman, M. 2009. Amazonian Oil Exploration: Contradictions on Culture and
Environment. FOCUS on Geography 52 (1): 1-10.
Fadiman, M. 2009. Wild Food Plants: Balancing Conservation and Utilization. Papers
of the Applied Geography Conferences 32: 291-298.
Lakhan, S., Root, T. and Fadiman, M. 2009. Clean Water Accessibility in Northern
Trinidad: Location, Collection, Storage and Socioeconomics. The Florida Geographer
40: 48-61.
Fadiman, M. 2008. Natural Resource Use and Cultural Change: Nipa Hut Shingle
Processing with Nypa fruticans, Arecaceae, in Palawan, Philippines. The Florida
Geographer 39: 20-35
Fadiman, M. 2008. Resource Stewardship: Rain Forest Use among Three Ethnic
Groups of Ecuador. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 31: 310-318.
Fadiman, M. 2008. “Starvation Taught me Art”: Tree Poaching, Gender and Cultural
Shifts in Wood Curio Carving in Zimbabwe. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 6:
335-346.
Fadiman, M. 2008. Use of Mocora, Astrocaryum standleyanum (Arecaceae), by three
ethnic groups ins Ecuador: differences, similarities and market potential. Journal of
Ethnobiology Volume 28(1) 92-109.
Fadiman, M. 2007. Exploring Conservation: Piguigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis, In
Ecuador. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences. 30: 427-436.
Fadiman, M. 2005. Cultivated Food Plants: Culture and Gendered Spaces of Colonists
and the Chachi in Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 4, No.1: 43-
57.
2005, Cultivated
Food Plants: Culture and Gendered
Spaces of Colonists and the Chachi
in Ecuador. Journal of Latin
American Geography 4(1): 43-57.
2004, Management, Cultivation and
Domestication of Weaving Plants:
Heteropsis and Astrocaryum in the
Ecuadorian Rain Forest. The
California Geographer 44:1-19.
2001, Hat weaving with Jipi,
Carludovica palmate, (Cyclanthaceae)in
the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The
Journal of Economic Botany
55(4):539-544.
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