Corrine Glesne
A qualitative research methodologist and educational anthropologist, Corrine has done ethnographic research in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Costa Rica, and Mexico. She also has done archaeological work in Kenya and Israel. Author of the text Becoming Qualitative Researchers, she was a professor at the University of Vermont for 17 years before her involvement with an international educational program (The International Honors Program--IHP). As a traveling anthropology professor with IHP, she taught and accompanied undergraduate students to India, the Philippines, Mexico, New Zealand, and England. She also coordinated the Washington DC portion of the "Rethinking Globalization" IHP program for several years.
While at UVM, Corrine began taking groups of students to Oaxaca, Mexico for intensive two-week interim courses in 1996. Over the next 6 years, she led or co-led 3 more groups to Oaxaca. Previously, she had also co-led a group of UVM students for an international practicum in Trinidad. In 2000, she spent a year's sabbatical in Oaxaca doing collaborative action research with a group of young people there. In 2006, she taught two courses in Oaxaca on "Art, History, and Cultures of Oaxaca" for UVM teachers and alumni.
Corrine has presented at various conferences and published several articles on her work and experiences in Oaxaca:
She did her doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Her home is now in Asheville, North Carolina.
