Jonathan Padwe is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. His research explores the connections between history, memory, agriculture and the environment. He recently completed his dissertation, Garden Variety Histories: Stories About Farming at the End of the World. The dissertation is based on three years of ethnographic field research with the Jarai highland minority group of northeast Cambodia. He previously conducted extensive field research with Aché foragers in eastern Paraguay.
