Maria Fadiman Biography

When Maria Fadiman is not studying plants in the depths of the rainforests of South America or in the wilderness of the savannah lands in Africa, she works as a professor of world geography at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Fadiman works with the human/environmental aspect of conservation. She received her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Texas at Austin an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University in New Orleans Louisiana and a B.A. from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie New York. She works primarily in rural areas with indigenous people and subsistence agriculturalists. The majority of her research is in the rainforests of Latin America mostly Ecuador. Projects include researching oil exploration in the Amazon; organic coffee production in the Galpagos; and the comparative use of rainforest palms and vines. Fadiman has worked with Mayan weavers in the Yucatan and studied medicinal plants with the Lacandon people in Chiapas Mexico. She has researched alternative livelihoods in Africa for those who depend on tree poaching from the national parks in the savanna; explored house construction from natural materials in the Philippines; studied the Maori utilization of the Kauri tree in New Zealand; and worked with Tibetan children in teaching them to record their own ethnobotanical traditions.

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