Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez is an assistant professor of modern Southeast Asia and the history of science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in the plant sciences and the plant humanities, and her first monograph, Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines, was released by Duke University Press in 2025.
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A Vegetal Apathy for an Asymptotic Taxonomy
The last plant my dad named he named after me: Shorea kathleeniana. The plant is a species of dipterocarp, one of the many towering trees that can be found in t... More