Speaker: Russell Fielding – History of Breadfruit

Join us for our monthly club meeting featuring guest speaker Russell Fielding, who will explore the history of breadfruit. Learn about its origins, cultural significance, and how this remarkable plant has traveled the world to become an important food source. Open discussion and Q&A to follow.

Russell Fielding is an environmental geographer whose research focuses on sustainable food systems in the coastal and island settings of our changing world. A former Fulbright scholar at the University of Prince Edward Island’s Institute of Island Studies, Fielding holds graduate degrees in geography from Louisiana State University and the University of Montana, as well as an undergraduate degree from the University of Florida.

Fielding is the author of two books: The Wake of the Whale (Harvard University Press, 2018) and Breadfruit (Columbia University Press, 2025), as well as numerous academic and popular articles. He is currently an Associate Professor at Coastal Carolina University with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology & Geography and the HTC Honors College while holding a research position with the Ocean Nexus Program at the University of Rhode Island.

More information may be found at russellfielding.com.