Biography:
Dr. Chandler-Ezell studied Biology and Physical Science at University of Central Arkansas, graduating from the UCA Honors College. She then earned an M.S. in Botany from Oklahoma State University. She then joined the University of Missouri Anthropology Dept and worked in the Paleoethnobotany Lab, earning her PhD. in 2003. After a 2-year NIMH post-doctoral fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine, she earned a Masters of Psychiatric Epidemiology before joining the faculty of Stephen F. Austin State University. She researches and teaches in ethnobiology and biocultural anthropology, with a special interest in ritual behavior, adaptive culture, and ethnomedicine.
Title : Why do Americans choose herbal and ethnomedicine therapies? Ethnobotanical evaluation of the endurance and function of the Modern Herbal Synthesis