Nina Etkin

Education and academic career

Academic positions

• Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, 1979–1983
• Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, 1983–1990
• Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1990–1994
• Full Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1994–2009.
• Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2001–2002

Awards and honors

Publications

Books

• Plants in Indigenous Medicine & Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches, 1986
• Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens, 1994
• Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food, 2006
• Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Beverages that Mediate Sociability, 2009

  Memorials

• The Nina L. Etkin Memorial Fund supports graduate students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, “particularly those working in biocultural and medical anthropology”.
• The UHM Campus Arboretum has an Akee tree as a memorial namesake tree dedicated with a plaque to Dr. Etkin; the species chosen reflects her research interest in cultural plant exchanges between Africa and the Caribbean.
• A special issue of the newsletter of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology collected testimonials from her students and colleagues.