William Balée

William Balée (born 1954) is a professor of anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

[1] Balée was appointed research fellow in 1984 by the New York Botanical Garden, collecting plants for an ethnobotany project sponsored by a Noble Grant.

[citation needed] His primary ethnographic work was with the Ka'apor indigenous culture of Maranhão, Brazil (Balée 1994).

Balée has proposed four interdependent postulates, which set historical ecology apart from other more traditional research programs.

In 2016 he received the President’s Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching from Tulane University.

(R) William Balée, Anthropology professor at Tulane University, with (L) indigenous consultant on landscape transformation in Brazil