McClatchey Academic Employment
Over the years I have worked in a range of academic prositions. Some of these have been primary jobs but some have been either courtesy or adjunct appointments.
Texas Christian University
- Affiliate Professor, Institute for Environmental Studies 2011-2015
Although I more or less left academia when I moved to Texas, TCU offered the opportunity to continue to mentor graduate students and to help teach courses in conservation of natural resources.
University of North Texas, Health Science Center
- Affiliate Graduate Faculty, Biomedical Sciences 2012-2015
When the decision was made to move to Texas, I still was supervising several graduate students from University of Hawai`i and working collaboratively with graduate students from Thailand. UNT provided laboratory space and collaboration opportunities through a prior agreement with BRIT so my students were able to continue their work.
University of Hawai`i, Mānoa
- Professor of Botany 2007-2010
- Coordinator, Ethnobotany interdisciplinary curriculum
- Graduate Faculty in SE Asian Studies
- Adjunct Researcher in Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, Natural Products Program
- Graduate Faculty in Pacific Studies Program
- Associate Professor of Botany 2002-2007
- Coordinator, Ethnobotany interdisciplinary curriculum
- Adjunct Researcher in Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, Natural Products Program
- Graduate Faculty in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology Program
- Graduate Faculty in Pacific Studies Program
- Associate Director, Lyon Arboretum 2002-2005
- Assistant Professor, Department of Botany 1997-2002
- Adjunct Researcher in Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, Natural Products Program
- Graduate Faculty in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology Program
- Graduate Faculty in Pacific Studies Program
Although I was based within the Botany Department, collaborations and interdisciplinary research projects created opportunities to work in several different programs in Hawai`i. I was hired to produce the world’s first undergraduate degree in Ethnobotany, which happened in 2002. Since then the program has been copied in variations at five other U.S. universities. I supervised more than 30 graduate students, hundreds of undergraduates in botany and biology, and at times up to 5 staff members and multiple federal grants and private contracts for research. I am vested in the state of Hawaii retirement system so will retire as a full professor in the future.
William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Research Associate 2007 - 2014
Khon Kaen University, Thailand
- Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Botany and Pharmacognosy 2005-2006
- Fulbright Fellowship Researcher and Instructor
University of Florida
- Post-Doctoral Instructor, Department of Botany 1996-1997
- Presidential Recognition Award for Teaching, University of Florida
- Fulling Award, Society for Economic Botany
- Instructor, College of Tropical Agriculture 1996
- Graduate Researcher, Florida State Museum, Herbarium 1994-1996
- McGinty Research Fellowship, University of Florida
- Systematic Field Researcher, Fairchild Tropical Garden 1995-1996
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Botany 1995
Brigham Young University
- Special Faculty, Department of Botany & Range Science 1994
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Botany & Range Science 1991-1993
- Graduate Researcher, Department of Botany & Range Science 1991-1994