Eve Emshwiller

Eve Emshwiller is an accomplished academic and researcher in the field of botany, serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since August 2006. Her research focuses on ethnobotany, the evolution and conservation of crop plants, and their wild relatives. Eve has developed a course on Ethnobotany for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students. In addition to her role at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Eve has been an Invited Professor at Universidad Mayor de San Simón since October 2013, teaching a course on molecular markers for wild relatives as part of a master's program. Eve is also an Associate Editor for the Society for Economic Botany and holds an honorary position as Adjunct Curator at The Field Museum of Natural History. Eve earned a Ph.D. in systematic botany and ethnobotany from Cornell University, where earlier a B.Sc. in Biology with a concentration in Botany was also obtained.