I am a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with over eight years of qualitative and quantitative research experience in the Eastern Caribbean (Dominica, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia).
Subject matter expertise: human dimensions of global change, social-ecological systems, sustainable livelihoods, smallholder agriculture, food systems, gender, international development, political ecology, disaster recovery, climate change, and Caribbean cultures.
Methodological and multimedia skills: ethnography, mixed-methods, grant-writing, GIS, agent based modeling, adaptive system design and collaborative modeling, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, team leadership, multi-sited/comparative study design, applied and collaborative methodologies, photography and videography, web and graphic design.
Teaching experience: course development and management, lecturing, e-learning, active learning pedagogy, and undergraduate mentoring.
Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations and Community Partnerships:
Government of Dominica: Division of Agriculture (Research Affiliate), Central Statistics Office (Research Affiliate)
US Government: US Embassy in Barbados (Regional Outreach, postponed due to COVID-19)
Interdisciplinary Academic: Caribbean Cyclone Cartography Project (Consultant)
Community Partners in Dominica: Giraudel Flower Group, Northeast Women’s Agriculture Movement, St. Mary’s Farmers’ Group
Large Grants and Fellowships
- Digital Dissertation Fellowship (2019-20), Carolina Digital Humanities Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- PEO Scholar Award (2018-19)
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2018-9)
- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2017-8)
- Graduate Incentive Scholarship Award, Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2017-8; 2018-9; 2019-20)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Anthropology (in progress)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Topic: Sustainable Transitions in Agricultural Livelihoods: Global Change and Local Food Production in Dominica
Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology, 2012
University of Oregon
Master’s Paper: The Problem of Women’s Work: Gender and the Agrarian Economy in the Commonwealth of Dominica
Bachelor of Arts, Magna cum laude in Cultural Anthropology, 2005
Washington University in St. Louis
Honor’s Thesis: Imagining taste: culinary identity and the modernization of produits de terroir in France
Additional Information
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