Rowan Baker

Rowan Baker is a political ecologist and a doctoral student in Anthropology and Environment. She holds a B.A. in International Development Studies and Russian Studies from UCLA and a master’s in environmental science from Yale. Her research examines the influence of forced displacement on intergenerational historical memory and place-based connection in Eurasia, particularly between Georgia and Abkhazia. Rowan has previously served as a Fulbright Research Grantee to Georgia, a Policy Fellow with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Research Director of the Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum. She has spent over three years in Moldova, Kazakhstan, and Georgia as a scholar with the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), Boren Scholarship, Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program, Fulbright Program, and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, respectively.

Keywords: historical memory; political ecology; displacement; indigeneity; Eurasia