Carine is studying pueblo pottery traditions in the U.S. Southwest and their insights into the resilience and survivance of cultural traditions despite environmental challenges. Her research focuses on indigenous connections to the environment expressed through the ceramics-making process and how potters themselves perceive environmental impacts on their work.
Carine Rofshus – Western Resource Fellow | Carine is a Master’s in Environmental Science Candidate at the Yale School of Environment. Her research focuses on the integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and cultural resources stewardship through working with Indigenous communities in the U.S. Southwest. She is particularly interested in the relationship between traditional ceramics processes and the environment as place-making practices. Carine currently serves as a NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Reparation Act) Assistant for the Yale Peabody Museum. Prior to Yale, Carine worked as an archaeologist for a native-women-owned small business dedicated to hazardous waste clean-up on Tribal, Federal, and Department of Defense lands. She has extensive experience on the Navajo Nation in addition to Arizona, Colorado, Guam, New Mexico, and Utah. Carine is a former National Park Service Cultural Interpretation volunteer for the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. She holds a BA in Art History from St. Olaf College and attended the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Field School as a National Science Foundation Fellow. In her free time, she enjoys backpacking, figure skating, and watercolor painting. See what Carine has been up to. |Blog
