Special Projects Manager
kalmanr1@msu.edu
M.A., Anthropology, Western Washington University
Rowenn is a graduate student in MSU's Department of Anthropology whose research interest is sustainable development in Latin America, where she has frequently traveled, volunteered, and studied since 2000. For her Master's thesis, she conducted fieldwork in Andean Peru investigating interactions between locals and visitors within a community-based ecotourism project. She hopes to address the impacts of similar development projects on environmental preservation and gender roles in her dissertation research. Rowenn also has experience with Participatory Action Research (PAR) tools and techniques and hopes to use them during her dissertation research. She co-taught a methodology class on PAR at Western Washington University and conducted a PAR project with the Bellingham Public Library in 2004. Rowenn co-authored a journal article with her colleagues at Western on how PAR can be used as a classroom technique for facilitating service-learning projects.
