Rowan Baker

Rowan Baker is a doctoral student in Anthropology and Environment at Yale University. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, her dissertation examines how environmental transformation, imperial intervention, and physical displacement reshape place-based identities and multispecies relationships over time in the Middle Caucasus. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Rowan served as a Fulbright Research Grantee to Georgia, a Policy Fellow with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Research Director of the Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum, and an International Fellow with CRRC Georgia. She holds degrees from UCLA and Yale.

Department: Anthropology