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Rick Stepp is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is occasionally a visiting professor at the Univesity of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy and Minzu University in Beijing, China. From 2008-2009 he was in residence at the University of Hawai'i as the Wilder Professor of Botany. He is a core faculty member of the Tropical Conservation and Development Program, 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 over the last two decades in the Maya Forest (working with Highland Maya and Lowland Maya and Garinagu) and in the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia (working with indigenous Akha communties). His research explores persistence, change and variation of traditional ecological knowledge and ethnobotany. Much of this work has focused on wild food plants and medicinal plants. His work has also focused on patterns in the distribution of biological and cultural diversity (biocultural diversity) on a global scale. Other research interests include the anthropology of food, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, GIS and land use change and human perceptions of climate change. 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, associate editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine and associate editor of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. He is also on the editorial boards of Ethnobotany Research and Applications and Ethnobiology Letters.
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