Saskia Wolsak
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PhD Interdisciplinary Studies [start date September 2017]

Email: swolsak(at)hotmail(dot)com

Education
M.Sc Ethnobotany, UBC (2017)
McGill University, Naropa University

Project
The ethnobotany of fibre plants (string)


Research interests
Ethnobotany, Plant Taxonomy


Co-Supervisors
Dr. Quentin Cronk
Dr. Wade Davis (Anthropology)


Scholarships and Grants

UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF), 2017-2021
CGS-M (SSHRC) 2016-2017
Research Grant from the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, Bermuda (2016-2017)


Publications

Wolsak, Saskia, David Wingate and Quentin Cronk. (2017). "Environmental change in the terrestrial vegetation of Bermuda: revisiting Harshberger (1905)." Brittonia, A Journal of Systemic Botany.

Wolsak, S. and Turner, NJ. (2014). Ethnobotanical Plant Collectors in northwestern North America. A.R. Kruckeberg, R. Love, eds. Plant Hunters of the Pacific Northwest.

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