Maria Fadiman
American ethnobotanist
Maria Grace Fadiman (born July 4, 1969) is an American ethnobotanist and Professor of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University.
Biography
Fadiman is the daughter of documentary filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman and psychologist and author James Fadiman. Clifton Fadiman was her granduncle. She is a distant cousin of Anne Fadiman and of William James Sidis, a child prodigy.
Education and career
Fadiman received her AB from Vassar College, her MA from Tulane University and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She was the recipient of an NSF Grant in 2000–2001, which she used for her dissertation research in Ecuador.
Fadiman joined the faculty at Florida Atlantic University in 2004. Before her appointment at FAU, she served as part-time faculty at Sonoma State University.
Since 2006, Fadiman is recognized as an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. She was one of only eight Explorers honored by National Geographic in 2006.
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