Courtney Dowdall
Courtney Marie Dowdall joined the AAA staff in October 2012 as professional fellow in the new Department of Professional Services. In this role, she will enhance existing AAA programs and develop new services that provide educational and professional support. Her skills and insight as an anthropologist will be invaluable in her work strengthening the AAA community to benefit the anthropological field as a whole.
Courtney is an applied anthropologist specializing in program evaluation and development studies. She received her BA in sociology and anthropology from Truman State University in 2002 and earned her PhD in global and sociocultural studies with an emphasis in anthropology from Florida International University in 2012. Her National Science Foundation-funded dissertation research, ?Small Farmer Market Knowledge and Specialty Coffee Commodity Chains in Western Highlands Guatemala,? employed a mixed-methods, multi-site comparison to evaluate market-based development programs centered on alternative markets for coffee. She is currently co-authoring a book with Ryan Klotz on Guatemalan farmers? efforts to overcome the sociocultural treadmill of agrochemical use in coffee and vegetable production. This will be part of the Left Coast Press series on anthropology and global public health.
Research design and methods have always been central to her anthropological training. Since her first anthropology course, she has been a champion of the unique role that anthropology?s holistic approach offers to the creation of meaningful programs and policies, ranging from education and public health initiatives to environmental stewardship and livelihood strategies. Her experience as program coordinator of supported employment at the non-profit MERS/Goodwill opened her eyes to the insights that anthropology can contribute to effective communication between diverse stakeholders and the refinement of objectives and measures of success. Her participation in the NSF Summer Institute for Research Design reaffirmed her conviction that the breadth and depth of anthropological methods render the discipline invaluable to comprehensive program evaluation.
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