Personal profile
Personal profile
Phd Supervisors:
Phil Crang, (RHUL)
Mark Nesbitt (RBG, Kew)
Felix Driver (RHUL)
Phd Advisors:
Nigel Melican (Tea Craft)
Research interests
Human Geography (Plant Humanities), Foodways, Ethnobotany, Biocultural Diversity & Conservation, Tea: Camellia sinensis & cultures of fermentation
Affiliations
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | London, UK
Missouri Botanical Garden, William L. Brown Center for Ethnobotany | MO, USA
Tea History Collection & Tea History Association | Banbury, UK
Consultancy
People & Plants, LLC | Missouri, USA | https://www.auroraprehn.com
Educational background
MSc Ethnobotany Supervisors: Dr. Rajindra Puri (Kent) & Dr. Mark Nesbitt (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
BA Majors Supervisor: Dr. Sameena Mulla
Education/Academic qualification
Ethnobotany, MSc, The Dynamics of Biocultural Diversity: Lessons from a Changing Georgian Viticulture Landscape, University of Kent at Canterbury
18 Sept 2018 → 18 Sept 2019
Award Date: 18 Sept 2019
Anthropology & Environmental Studies, BA, An Examination of the Intersection of Food, Eating and Health Through Food Culture and the Social and Geographic Environment, Marquette University Milwaukee
15 Sept 2009 → 15 May 2013
Award Date: 15 May 2013
External positions
PhD Student | Interdisciplinary Research, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
18 Sept 2023 → …
Honorary Curator, Tea History Collection
1 Sept 2022 → …
Ethnobotany Collections & Data, Missouri Botanical Garden
18 Jan 2021 → …