Editorial Team
Editor: Joela Jacobs
Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona
Deputy Editor: Isis Brook
Visiting Research Fellow, Bath Spa University
Associate Editors
Clare Hickman Reader, Environmental and Medical History, Newcastle University
Historic gardens and landscapes; past botanic collecting and collections; cultural histories of natural spaces and plants that have been classed as having therapeutic properties
Diego Molina British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental History and Historical Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Plant-human interactions in Latin America; environmental history of plants and botanical science (e.g. travellers, scientific representation of plants, botany and power); plants in cities (especially in the tropics); photography and plants
Niall A. Peach Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies, University of Cincinnati
Vegetal–human entanglements in Mexico and the Caribbean: Rural and watery spaces, agribiopolitics and plants ('garden' sites); Blackness, Indigeneity, and environment: belonging and alternative reworlding with plants.
Jon Pitt East Asian Studies Department, University of California, Irvine
Entanglements of plant life and various forms of literature: fiction, poetry, SF, horror, nature writing, etc.; film (narrative, documentary, experimental) and sound media; East Asia
Mardi Reardon-Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ADM+S Centre, Monash University
Environmental anthropology and science and technology studies (STS); invasive plant species; traditional knowledges of biological resources; environmental management; political ecology
Laura Pustarfi Lecturer, Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral Studies
Trees; Continental philosophy; ethics; psychedelic plants
Mariko O. Thomas Teaching Professor, Environmental Communication, Skagit Valley College
More-than-human communication; plant storytelling; human-plant relationships; ecocultural identity; magic and mythology; environmental justice
Kathryn Van Wert Associate Professor, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth
Literary representations of human-plant relationships from the modernist period forward; ecopoetics; vegetal alterity; plants as teachers
Rachel Zollinger Assistant Professor, Art Education, University of New Mexico
Place and plant pedagogies; plants as metaphors, collaborators, and symbionts; art-based methodologies and plants
Reviews Editors
Subarna De Lecturer, Anglophone Cultures, Tallinn University
Kristan M. Hanson 2026/2027 Vermont Community Fellow, Art History and Plant Humanities, Vermont Folklife
Creative Submissions Editors
Prudence Gibson Senior Lecturer, Arts, Design, and Architecture, University of New South Wales
Kristina Van Dexter Forest Futurities
Outreach Coordinator
Goutam Majhi Assistant Professor, English, Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta)
Post-graduate Representative
Caroline Kreysel PhD Student, Environmental History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Editorial Board
Antonio Allegretti Lecturer, Anthropology, Lancaster Environment Centre
Giovanni Aloi Adjunct Associate Professor, Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Yota Batsaki Executive Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Emily Brady Professor Emerita, Philosophy, Texas A&M University
Anna Burton Lecturer, English, University of Derby
Sophie Chao Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Sydney
Shiuhhuah Serena Chou Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Jonathan Code Senior Lecturer, Sustainable Land Management, Royal Agricultural University
Norman Dandy School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University
Stefan Dorondel Lead Researcher, Sociocultural Anthropology and Environmental History, Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology/Romanian Academy and The Graduate School of History/University of Bucharest
Felix Driver Professor, Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Julia Fine PhD Student, History, Stanford University
Tom Greaves Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of East Anglia
James Hatley Professor, Environmental Studies, Salisbury University
Christina Hourigan PhD Student, Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Luke Keogh Curator and Lecturer, History, Deakin University
Karen Jones Professor, Environmental and Cultural History, University of Kent
Andy Letcher Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead, Engaged Ecology, Schumacher College
David Macauley Associate Professor, Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Penn State University
Susan McHugh Professor, English, University of New England
Sara Lil Middleton Science Communicator and Open Science Educator, Plant Ecology and Open Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Suzanne Moss Head of Education and Learning, Royal Horticultural Society
Solvejg Nitzke Interim Professor, Comparative Literature, Ruhr-University Bochum
Marcello di Paola Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of Palermo
Mykyta Peregrym Project Researcher, Botany, Ecology, and Citizen Science, University of Oulu
Hannah Pitt Senior Lecturer, Environmental Geography, Cardiff University
Jayson Maurice Porter Assistant Professor, History, University of Maryland
Swarna Rangarajan Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Maya L. Shamsid-Deen Assistant Teaching Professor, Botany, Arizona State University
Christa Sommerer Professor Emeritus, Media Arts, University of Arts Linz
Paolo Squatriti Professor, History, University of Michigan
Doug Stewart Professional Associate, Horticulture, Royal Horticultural Society
Eline Tabak Honorary Research Fellow, Environmental Humanities and Critical Extinction Studies, University of Oulu
Barry Taylor Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Chester
Steven White Professor Emeritus, Hispanic Studies, St. Lawrence University; Co-Founder of Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas
Founding Editor
John C. Ryan Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia