Dr. Poole is an applied anthropologist who has done research in the Horn of Africa and Coastal Alaska.
Dr. Poole recently received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington. Her dissertation, “The Power of Place: Refugee Resettlement, Resource Management, and State Making in Lowlands Eritrea,” is based on extensive fieldwork supported by the Social Science Research Council and other fellowships. She will be teaching courses on Africa, Applied Anthropology, and Ecological Anthropology as well as expanding our curriculum into areas of Cultural and Environmental sustainability.
Her fields of specialization include Political Ecology, community-based resource management, migration issues, post-conflict development, food security, and cultural and environmental sustainability in the Horn of Africa and coastal Alaska. Most recently, she has been working in Alaska with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service to develop programs of sustainability in the Alaskan fishing communities.
