John Richard Stepp, Ph.D.
Title : Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies
Interests : Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, Mesoamerica
Programs : Cultural Anthropology
Personal Statement
Rick Stepp is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He is a core faculty member of the Tropical Conservation and Development Program and the Land Use and Environmental Change Institute. He is also an affiliate faculty member of the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Florida Museum of Natural History. For the last decade he has conducted ethnobiological research with the Tzeltal Maya in Highland Chiapas, Mexico. He currently coordinates an interdiscplinary research program in the Maya Forest of Belize, Guatemala and Mexico. He recently received funding from the National Science Foundation for a comparative project with Q'eqchi' and Mopan Maya communities in Southern Belize. He also works with Garinagu in coastal Central America. His research explores persistence, change and variation of traditional ecological knowledge and ethnobotany. Other research interests include medical anthropology, visual anthropology, GIS and land use change and human ecosystems theory. Along with his graduate students, he is developing a global GIS database for biocultural diversity with support from The Christensen Fund. He is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-STAR and David L. Boren fellow.
Office
Grinter Hall, Room 337
PO 117305
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7305
Phone Number : 352-392-0299
Email : stepp@ufl.edu
Webpage : http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/stepp
