Back روبن وول كيميرر ARZ ৰবিন ৱাল কিমাৰাৰ Assamese رابین وال کیمرر AZB Robin Wall Kimmerer German Robin Wall Kimmerer Spanish Robin Wall Kimmerer Basque رابین وال کیمرر Persian Robin Wall Kimmerer French Робин Вол Кимерер Macedonian Robin Wall Kimmerer Dutch
Robin Wall Kimmerer | |
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 Kimmerer in 2023 | |
| Born | September 13, 1953 |
| Nationality | Citizen Potawatomi Nation[1] American |
| Alma mater | SUNY-ESF (BS) University of Wisconsin–Madison (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Scholarship on traditional ecological knowledge and moss ecology; Outreach to tribal communities; Creative writing |
| Awards | John Burroughs Medal Award, for Gathering Moss MacArthur Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Plant ecology, Botany |
| Institutions | SUNY-ESF Centre College Transylvania University |
| Thesis | Vegetation Development and Community Dynamics in a Dated Series of Abandoned Lead-Zinc Mines in Southwestern Wisconsin (1983) |
| Website | www |
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born September 13, 1953) is a Potawatomi botanist, author, and the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
As a scientist and a Native American, Kimmerer is informed in her work by both Western science and indigenous environmental knowledge.[1]
Kimmerer has written numerous scientific articles and the books Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013). She narrated an audiobook version released in 2016. Braiding Sweetgrass was republished in 2020 with a new introduction.
- ^ a b "Writers-in-Residence Program: Robin Kimmerer". Archived April 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. 2004. Retrieved July 17, 2012.