Dr. John White

Dr. John Robert White is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. His academic background is in anthropology, ecology, and botany. Dr. White was born in the summer of 1989 and raised in the Great Lakes region of Michigan where he obtained his BA in anthropology at Michigan State University in 2012. Over the course of his undergraduate Dr. White began commercial horticultural as well as annual cultural, linguistic, and biological field research in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He furthered these interdisciplinary interests by moving to England where he obtained his MSc in Ethnobotany at the University of Kent at Canterbury in 2014. New Orleans came next, where Dr. White’s PhD in Anthropology was completed in 2022 at Tulane University with 16 credits in Evolutionary Ecology and Biology. In 2021-2022 he was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology under his NSF research grant concerning Indigenous peoples and crop wild relatives. Dr. White regularly teaches across social, biological, and ecological science departments in person and online. His current research concerns integrating, leveraging, and decolonizing disparate data sets about biodiversity from across cultures, disciplines, economies, governments, space, and time.