Christine Wilkinson, ESPM PhD Student, was a Rocca Fellow in Summer 2016. She sent us the following report.
This past summer, I was able to use the generous support of a Rocca Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in order to explore potential field sites, network with communities and wildlife managers, and brainstorm my dissertation research questions. Having spent about 2 cumulative years living and working in East...
As a broadly trained rural sociologist and human geographer, her research brings together the political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical agrarian and food studies, and African studies. She draws on ethnographic, historical, and participatory visual methods to examine the relationship between gender, intersectionality, development, and socio-ecological change in Sub Saharan Africa with a focus on Tanzania. She is interested in understanding how agrarian landscapes, livelihoods, and lifestyles articulate with capitalist forces, and how these...
