Biography

Dawn D. Davis, Ph.D., is a mother, a wife, co-editor of the Journal of Native Sciences, a founding member of Source Research Foundation, a Newe and a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. She holds a Ph.D. in natural resources from the University of Idaho for her dissertation entitled, “The Peyote Path: A Newe Perspective on Conserving a Sacred Medicinal Plant in Peril.” As a student, Dr. Davis was a twice awarded National Science Foundation recipient as a fellow under the Integrated Graduate Education Research Traineeship and an Indigenous STEM scholar. Her previous research has focused on the cultural, environmental, and anthropogenic issues that surround the revered Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) cacti which is integral to her spiritual practice. Dr. Davis shares her research among Indigenous, academic, ethnobotanical, and psychedelic audiences nationally and internationally.