For his literary non-fiction, grassroots conservation and community-based
ethnobiology projects, Nabhan has been honored with the
John Burroughs Medal
for Nature Writing, a
MacArthur "genius" award, a
Lannan Literary Award, a
Pew
Fellowship in Conservation and Environment, a
Lifetime Acheivement Award from
the Society for Conservation Biology, and a Quivira Coalition award for
excellence in science that contributes to "the radical center."
Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., is an Arab-American writer, lecturer, food and farming
advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist whose work has long
been rooted in the U.S./Mexico borderlands region he affectionately calls "the
stinkin' hot desert." He has recently accepted a tenured professorship as a
Research Social Scientist based at the Southwest Center of the University of
Arizona - his alma mater.
