Vikram K. Tamboli (PhD History, UW-Madison) works at the nexus of history, geography, and anthropology, and is currently completing a manuscript titled "Black Powers and Bush Work: A History of Trafficking Knowledge in Greater Amazonia and the Caribbean, 1722-2022." A past Postdoctoral Associate of the Agrarian Studies program at Yale University and National Endowment for the Humanities Long-term Fellow of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, Vikram is currently a Peter Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and a visiting scholar of the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He is also the creator and co-director of The Healing and Harming Garden project, part of the Plants and People(s) Initiative of the Mathias Botanical Garden and UCLA’s History Department. In July 2025, at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Society for Environmental History (SOLCHA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he was recognized for the global perspective of his scholarship. Please contact for complete CV.  

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