Paul D. Duncan, Assistant Director
Latin American & Caribbean Studies Institute
The University of Georgia
290 South Hull Street
tel: 706-583-0619
fax: 706-542-8432
e-mail: pduncan@uga.edu

Paul David Duncan has a BA from the University of Iowa and an MS in forestry/certificate in agroforestry from the University of Florida. He has carried out community forestry/natural resource conservation projects in Guatemala as a Peace Corps volunteer (1987-90) and in the Dominican Republic as project manager for the Center for Marine Conservation (1997-98). He twice served as technical trainer of forestry Peace Corps Volunteers for World Learning, Inc. (Guatemala 1996, 1998).

From 1999 to 2002 Duncan administered the NIH-funded Maya International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (Maya ICBG) project at the University of Georgia. The Maya ICBG, a biodiversity conservation and drug discovery project carried out with the highland Maya of Chiapas.

From 2002 to present, Mr. Duncan has served as assistant director of the UGA Latin American & Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) and curator of LACSI's Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden. Duncan coordinates all LACSI programmatic activities and with the director manages the new undergraduate major in Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Duncan organizes and facilitates annual public school teacher workshops to strengthen Latin American Studies curriculum for middle and high schools and to create school gardens/outdoor learning environments. As public service faculty at UGA, Duncan also develops and supervises all community service and outreach programming carried out by LACSI.