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Rick Stepp is currently in residence at the University of Hawai'i as the Wilder Professor of Botany. He is also an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is a core faculty member of the Land Use and Environmental Change Institute.and an affiliate faculty member of the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Florida Museum of Natural History. He has conducted ethnobiological research in the Maya Forest of Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, working primarily with Highland and Lowland Maya. He also works with Garinagu in coastal Central America. His research explores persistence, change and variation of traditional ecological knowledge and ethnobotany. Along with his graduate students, he is developing a global GIS database for biocultural diversity with support from The Christensen Fund. Other research interests include medical anthropology, visual anthropology, GIS and land use change and human ecosystems theory. He is also involved in documentary and ethnographic film production on topics both related and unrelated to his primary research. His work has been profiled by ABC News, Americas Magazine, Business Week, the Lancet, National Geographic, National Public Radio, New Scientist, and Trends in Plant Science, among others. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Ecological Anthropology, former editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology and currently senior associate editor of Economic Botany and associate editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. He is also on the editorial boards of Ethnobotany Research and Applications, Etnoecológica, and the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
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