Teaching
- EVRN 542/ANTH 582 – Ethnobotany [Syllabus]
- EVRN 615 – Environmental Studies Capstone [Syllabus]
Teaching philosophy statement
Former graduate students
Lois Stevens
Master’s thesis:
Stevens, L. L. (2014). Trusting the culture in our food overcoming barriers for sustainable indigenous foodways. Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 80 pp.
Quinn Long
Doctoral dissertation:
Long, Q. (2010). Species Coexistence in Restored Grassland Plant Communities: Trait-based Recruitment, Niche-Neutral Assembly, and Heterogenous Management. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 144 pp.
Hayley Kilroy
Master’s thesis:
Kilroy, H. (2010). Tallgrass Prairie Remnants as “Living Museums”: Landscape Context, Metacommunity Dynamics and Private Management Practices of Native Prairie Hay Meadows. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 63 pp.
Lisa Castle
Doctoral dissertation:
Castle, L. (2006). The Prairie Turnip Paradox: Contributions of Population Dynamics, Ethnobotany, and Community Ecology to Understanding Pediomelum esculentum Root Harvest on the Great Plains. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 183 pp.
Todd Aschenbach
Doctoral dissertation:
Aschenbach, T.A. (2005). Community Assembly Approach to Prairie Restoration. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 118 pp.
Master’s thesis:
Aschenbach, T. (2000). Plant Community Dynamics at Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 112 pp.
Sharon Ashworth
Doctoral dissertation:
Ashworth, Sharon M. (2003). Vegetation Dynamics of Restored Wetlands at Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 99 p.
Dana Price Hurlburt
Doctoral dissertation:
Hurlburt, D.P. (1999). Population Ecology and Economic Botany of Echinacea angustifolia, a Native Prairie Medicinal Plant. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: 154.
Alex Fraser
Doctoral dissertation:
Fraser, A. (2003). What Spatial Scale Maximizes Wetlands Conservation and Restoration? Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: 53.
Master’s thesis:
Fraser, A. (1997). Plant Community Dynamics of the Santa Fe Wetland Mitigation. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Lisa Kahn
Doctoral dissertation:
Kahn, L. (1998). Vegetation Establishment in a Tallgrass Prairie Restoration. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: 77.
Megan Mehaffey
Doctoral dissertation:
Mehaffey, M.H. (1998). The Impact of Litter Quality on Tallgrass Prairie Soils of Northeastern Kansas. Department of Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: 111.
