Harriet V. Kuhnlein is professor emerita of Human Nutrition at McGill University.[1] She is also Founding Director of the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE).
Kuhnlein has a PhD from University of California, Berkeley and an honorary LL.D. from University of Western Ontario.
In 2024, Kuhnlein was awarded the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award from the Society of Ethnobiology.[2] Kuhnlein received the Unsung Heroes of McGill award in 2022.[3] Also in 2022, she received the Living Legend Award from the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.[4]
Kuhnlein retired from McGill University in 2009. She is married.[5]
Kuhnlein, Harriet V. Strontium and lead in the Hopi nutritional environment and teeth. PhD dissertation. University of California, 1976.