Rowan Baker

Rowan is a current doctoral student in Anthropology and Environment at Yale. She holds a BA in International Development Studies and Russian Studies from UCLA and a MESc from Yale. As a political ecologist, Rowan’s research examines the individual in community and state contexts, as well as the mutually reinforcing interplay of the physical and mental processes. Within the scope of these frameworks, her work at Yale addresses questions of displacement, environmental change, and resolution within the post-Soviet context, in particular between Georgia and Abkhazia. Previously, Rowan served as a Fulbright Research Grantee to Georgia, a Policy Fellow for the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Research Director for the Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum. She has spent over three years in Moldova, Kazakhstan, and Georgia as a NSLI-Y, Boren, CLS and Fulbright scholar respectively.

Department: Anthropology