Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer | |
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Kimmerer in 2023 | |
| Born | September 13, 1953 |
| Nationality | Citizen Potawatomi Nation 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.
Kimmerer has written numerous scientific articles and the books Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013), The Democracy of Species (2021) and The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024). She narrated an audiobook version of Braiding Sweetgrass, released in 2016. Braiding Sweetgrass was republished in 2020 with a new introduction.