Dr Mark Nesbitt
About
Dr. Mark Nesbitt, a Senior Team Leader at RBG Kew and Curator of the Economic Botany Collection, has been the coordinator for the Kew component of the Kent Ethnobotany MSc since 2000. He teaches and supervises students on a range of ethnobotanical subjects, including the use of Kew’s various collections in research. His research interests are in ethnobotany, archaeobotany, useful plants, exploration, collections, museums, history, humanities, barkcloth, medicinal plants.
Marks’ website: http://www.marknesbitt.org.uk/
Some key publications:
Nesbitt, M,. & R. Stungo. 2020. The botany of basketry: a cross-cultural view from the Economic Botany Collection, Kew. In: Beyond basketry. Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, pp. 196-209
Nesbitt, M., F. Lennard and A. Mills. 2020. .Afterword: Polynesian barkcloth past, present, future. Pp. 305-10 in F. Lennard & A
. Mills (eds), Material approaches to Polynesian barkcloth: Cloth, collections, communities. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Walker, K. & M. Nesbitt. 2019. Just the tonic: the natural history of tonic water. Kew Press. Buy the book . More details
Nesbitt, M. & E. Fairnell. 2018. Use of biological collections. In The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, ed. S.L. López Varela. John Wiley & Sons. doi.org/10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0590
Nesbitt, M., Bates, J., Hillman, G. & Mitchell, S. 2017. The Archaeobotany of Aşvan: Environment & Cultivation in Eastern Anatolia from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval Period. London: British Institute at Ankara, Monograph 33. Book details JSTOR
Brand, E., Leon, C., Nesbitt, M., Guo, P., Huang, R., Chen, H., Liang, L. & Zhao, Z. 2017. Economic botany collections: A source of material evidence for exploring historical changes in Chinese medicinal materials. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 200: 209-227.
Nesbitt, M. & C. Cornish. (2016). Seeds of industry and empire: economic botany collections between nature and culture. Journal of Museum Ethnography 29: 53-70.
Salick, J., Konchar, K. & Nesbitt, M. (eds) 2014. Curating biocultural collections: a handbook. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Available to purchase online