Editors’ Biographies

Audrey N. Maretzki (Managing Editor) is a Professor Emerita in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State. She received an M.S. in Community Nutrition from Penn State and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the Penn State faculty in 1985, she was a faculty member for 20 years at the University of Hawaii and a 1983 Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand. From 1986-1992 she was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nutrition Education. In 1995, she co-founded the Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) that has been administratively housed in the PSU Libraries for the past five years. During this time, the initial IK consortium at PSU has expanded in scope to become the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge; the only global indigenous knowledge resource and outreach center in the U.S. In retirement, Maretzki continues her involvement in indigenous knowledge as a co-director of ICIK, an editor for the new publication IK: Other Ways of Knowing, organizing monthly IK seminars and managing an IK listserv with approximately 900 subscribers.

Amy L. Paster (Managing Editor) is the Head of the Life Sciences Library at Penn State. She received an M.L.S. in Library Science from SUNY Albany and a B.S. in Entomology from the University of Georgia. Prior to joining the Penn State faculty in 1985, she was a librarian at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Information. In addition Paster is a CoDirector of the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) at Penn State.

Nonny Schlotzhauer (Reviews Editor) is the Acting Head of the Social Sciences and Donald W. Hamer Maps Libraries at the Pennsylvania State University. He has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Temple University and a Master of Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He has held prior positions at Juniata College, Miami University (Ohio), and the University of Denver.

Helen M. Sheehy (Managing Editor) is Head of the Social Sciences and Donald W. Hamer Maps Libraries at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries. She has a B.S. in nutrition from Framingham State University and an M.L.S. from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Prior to becoming a librarian she worked in community development in Honduras.  Peace Corps and CARE. From 2003-2009 she was a managing editor of the American Library Association journal DttP. In addition Sheehy is Co-Director of the Interinstitutional Center for Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) at Penn State.

Christian Man (Associate Editor) is a PhD candidate in Rural Sociology and International Agriculture and Development at The Pennsylvania State University.

María Landschoot (Assistant Editor) is a fourth year undergraduate student at Penn State. She is majoring in English and has a strong interest in international and world literature.