Internship Coordinator
meuninck@msu.edu
gjecic@msu.edu
B.S., Environmental Anthropology, University of Michigan
Rebecca entered the Ph.D. program in Anthropology at MSU in 2004 after four years of work at an environmental health NGO in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rebecca's research interests include political ecology, international trade and development, sustainable agriculture, globalization, and the environment. Rebecca's dissertation research is on the social, economic and environmental impacts of Fair Trade coffee production in Minas Gerais, Brazil. She is also studying the international power dynamics and relationships between Brazilian coffee producers and cooperatives, and US-based Fair Trade businesses, activists, and consumers. She is in her second year of language training in Portuguese, supported by a FLAS fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in International Development. Rebecca has done fieldwork on Fair Trade coffee production in Brazil and Nicaragua, and will be returning to Minas Gerais to complete her dissertation fieldwork.
