Background
Ronald Nigh was born October 29, 1947 in Kearney, Nebraska.
Ronald Nigh was born October 29, 1947 in Kearney, Nebraska.
Nigh attended Stanford University, where he received his Bachelor in Anthropology in 1969.
Nigh is a professor and researcher at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Anthropologia Social (CIESAS), where he continues his research on ecological anthropology. He continued his education at Stanford and received his Master of Arts in Anthropology in 1970 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology in 1976. Nigh’s dissertation was about traditional Maya milpa agriculture in the highlands of Chiapas.
He then spent one year at a public research institute continuing his work on traditional Maya agriculture and its relationship to biodiversity and forest regeneration.
; Komar, Oliver; Chazdon, Robin.