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Rick Stepp is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and was recently 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 for the last 15 years in the Maya Forest working with Highland Maya and Lowland Maya in Mexico and Belize and Garinagu in coastal Central America. More recently, he has also been working in the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia with indigenous Akha/Aini communties. His research explores persistence, change and variation of traditional ecological knowledge and ethnobotany. 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 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 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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