Bradley C. Bennett, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University.
Professor Bennett holds a Ph.D. in botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree in biology from Florida Atlantic University. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology and geology/geography at Bucknell University.
He is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Earth and Environment in the School of Environment and Society. He has been president of the International Society for Economic Botany and an associate editor of the journal Economic Botany. He is a member of the American Botanical Council's Advisory Board and a senior research associate at the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Kampong Garden. His main research focus is ethnobotany in the neotropics, including medicinal plants, flora and vegetation dynamics of southern Florida, and sustainable use of forest resources.
Dr. Bennett and his graduate assistants have worked in Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad, Turkey, and the United States. His book Ethnobotany of the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador won the 2006 Mary W. Klinger Book Award from the Society for Economic Botany. His research has been published in numerous scientific journals.