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 Publications2005, 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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