Rachel Walker

Research Fellow and Adjunct at Hamline University

Phone: 612-625 8627
E-mail: walk0303@umn.edu

173 McNeal Hall,
1985 Buford Avenue,
St. Paul, MN 55108

Fax: 612-625-1263

Rachel is working on the EPA Region 5 Social Indicators Project and spends a portion of her time teaching Introduction to Environmental Studies at Hamline University in Saint Paul.

Rachel completed her Ph.D. in Water Resources Science in July 2008. She is researching the dynamics and cultural study of a plant sacred to Anishinaabeg (Ojibway). She has learned that wild rice is inextricably bound to Anishinaabeg understanding of themselves and the natural world. Anishinaabeg have long known that wild rice populations fluctuate. Her thesis combines theoretical ecology, ecosystem processes, plant dynamics, cultural, political and historical study of a plant sacred to Anishinaabeg (Ojibway). Her thesis is titled "Wild Rice: the Dynamics of Its Population Cycles and the Debate Over Its Control at the Minnesota Legislature."

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