Members

Membership in the Global Tea Institute is comprised of UC Davis faculty, librarians, staff, and students from across the disciplines and campus. Faculty lead the way in research and teaching. Librarians manage information and advise faculty and students on helpful resources for their studies. Staff members assist with such things as internships and career development for our students. Students point to the future of tea through their innovative research projects.

Faculty

Carl L. Keen

  • Professor, Nutritionist, and Mars Chair of Developmental Nutrition, Departments of Nutrition and Internal Medicine

Lynn Kimsey

  • Professor of Entomology, Director, Bohart Museum of Entomology

Sharon Shoemaker

  • Executive Director of the California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research, Food Science and Technology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Smriti Srinivas

  • Director, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program; Co-Director, Reimagining Indian Oceans Worlds Mellon Research Initiative; and Professor, Anthropology

Archana Venkatesan

  • Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Comparative Literature, Department of Religious Studies

Yunshi Wang

  • Co-Director, China-U.S. ZEV Policy Lab; Director of the China Center for Energy and Transportation of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies

Librarians

Axel Borg

  • Subject Specialist Librarian — Research Support Services — Shields Library

Leyla Cabugos

  • Subject Specialist Librarian — Research Support Services — Shields Library, Room 388

Staff

Students

Lam Won

  • Graduate Student, Department of Sociology