Jonathan Padwe

Jonathan Padwe is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. His research focuses on the intersection of nature and culture in borderlands and frontiers, with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asian and South American contexts. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork with the Jarai highland minority group in Cambodia's northeast highlands and previously studied Aché foragers in eastern Paraguay.

His notable work includes the book Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands, which examines Jarai perspectives on history, migration, war, and the impacts of development through landscape analysis. This research integrates oral histories and environmental anthropology to document Indigenous experiences of displacement and cultural memory.

No academic articles or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided text, but his work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human-environment interactions in marginalized communities.