Ph.D. Geography, University of Florida

M.A. Latin American Studies, Tropical Conservation and Development Program, University of Florida

B.A. Political Science, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, University of Illinois

Office: B-4-205 Mackinac Hall
Phone: (616) 331-8522
Email: [email protected]

Areas of interest: Amazonia, Latin America, non-timber forest products, ethnobotany, natural resource use and indigenous communities, agriculture and farmers, rural-to-urban migration, globalization and development, railroads and freight transportation.

Representative Publications:

• Penn, J. 2024. Community-Based Field Research and Intercultural Student Experiences: Tropical Rainforest Experiential Learning in the Peruvian Amazon. Pp. 173-204 In: Wessell, J.E. (ed.) Experiential learning in geography: The world as our classroom. Switzerland: Springer Nature.

• Penn, J. Rural-to-urban Migration. (Submitted) In: C. Pope (ed.) Modern Global Migration: An Encyclopedia of People on the Move. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Publishers.

• Lane, P.M., and J. Penn. 2018. Explorando la cultura Mayangna de Nicaragua através del FODA. Raíces: Revista Nicaragüense de Antropología 2 (4) 47 – 54.

• Lane, P, Gómez, E., & Penn, J. 2018. Exploring a Culture with UNESCO 2030 Objectives and SWOT: The Mayangna of Nicaragua. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 5 (11), 589-602

• Penn, J. W., Jr. 2017. Piassaba broom production and fiber harvest amid challenging conditions in the lower Andes: A case from Peru. Pp. 177 – 205 In: C. Allen (ed.) The Andes: Geography, diversity and sociocultural impacts. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

• Delgado, C., Penn, J., and Couturier, G. 2016 Status of cacao trees following seasonal floods in major watersheds of the Peruvian Amazon. Agricultural Science 4 (2) 15-24.

• Penn, J. 2012. The unconquered: In search of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes. (Book review) Journal of Latin American Geography 11(1): 188-90.

• Penn, J. 2010. Domestication centers. In B. Warf (Ed.), Sage encyclopedia of human geography (pp. 374-378). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Penn, J. W., Jr. 2008. Non-timber forest products in Peruvian Amazonia: Changing patterns of economic exploitation. Focus on Geography 51(2): 18-25.

• Pinedo-Panduro, M. and J. Penn. 2008. Camu-camu: A sustainable option for agroindustry in the Peruvian Amazon. FAO Non-wood News 17: 52.

• Penn, J. W., Jr. 2006. The cultivation of camu camu (Myrciaria dubia): A tree planting programme in the Peruvian Amazon. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods 16 (1): 85-101.

• Miller, R.P., Penn, J.W., Jr, and J. van Leeuwen. 2006. Amazonian Homegardens: Their ethnohistory and potential contribution to agroforestry development. Pp. 43 -60 In: Kumar, B.K. and P.K. Nair (eds.) Tropical Homegardens: A Time-Tested Example of Sustainable Agroforestry. Advances in Agroforestry 3. Dordrecht: Springer Science.

• Penn, J. and G. Neise. 2004. Aguaje palm agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon. The Palmateer Vol. 24, No. 1, 15-18.

• Meyer, D., and J. Penn. 2003. An overview of the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Communal Reserve. Rapid Biological Inventories 11: 176-177. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History.

• Bodmer, R.E., C.M. Allen, J.W. Penn, R. Aquino, and C. Reyes. 1999. Evaluating sustainable use of wildlife in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru. America Verdi No. 4a. 36 pp.

• Bodmer, R. E., J. W. Penn, P. E. Puertas, L. I. Moya and T. G. Fang. 1997. Linking Conservation and Local People through Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: Community-Based Management in the Peruvian Amazon. Pp. 315-358 In: Curtis H. Freese (ed.), Harvesting Wild Species: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.

• Bodmer, R. E. and J. W. Penn, Jr. 1997. Manejo de Vida Silvestre em Comunidades na Amazonia. Pp. 52-69 In: Claudio Valladares-Padua and Richard E. Bodmer (eds.), Manejo e Conservacão de Vida Silvestre no Brasil. Belém, Brasil, Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas.

• Bodmer, R. E., J. W. Penn and Eduardo Durand. 1995. Costos y Beneficios del Establecimiento de una Extracción de Recursos más Sostenible en la Amazonia Occidental. Pp. 215-222 In: G. A. B. da Fonseca, M. Schmink, L. P. de S. Pinto and F. Brito (eds.), Abordages Interdisciplinares para a Conservacão do Uso de Terra no Novo Mundo. Belo Horizonte, Brasil: Conservation International do Brasil.

• Penn, J. W., Jr. 1994. Agroforestería orientada a la fauna sivestre y necesidades humanas: Desafíos y realidades de la Reserva Comunal Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo. Kanatari 490: 6-7 and 493: 5, 11.

• Penn, J. W., Jr. and Jose A. Alvarez. 1990. Comunidad Campesina Protege sus Cochas. Kanatari 258: 3, 10.

• Bodmer, R. E., T. G. Fang, L. I. Moya, and J. W. Penn, Jr. 1990. Management Programmes and Protected Areas: The Case of the Reserva Comunal Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo. Parks 1(1): 21-25.