Dr. Jill Rowe

Assistant Professor, African American Studies

Contact information

915 W Franklin St, Stark House, rm 106
PO Box 842509
Richmond, VA 23284-2509
(804) 827-1202
(804) 828-1665 fax
jeroweadjibo@vcu.edu

Education

PhD (2004) in Anthropology, Michigan State University

Biographical statement

Dr. Rowe is an assistant professor in African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her PhD in anthropology from Michigan State University, an MPH in health education and communications from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and an MA in medical anthropology from Wayne State University. During her graduate career Rowe held a Ford Fellowship that allowed her to study the Ethiopian language of Amharic at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and held a Kaplan Fellowship where she studied Dahomian culture at the Universitè Nationale du Bènin in Cotonou, Bènin. These experiences in Africa fulfilled the requirements for certification as an Africanist from the African Studies Center at Michigan State. Prior to coming to VCU, Dr. Rowe held an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Mental Health Services Research at Washington University in St. Louis.

Research interests

Dr. Rowe's research interests include: health literacy among African Americans, health disparities in African American communities, the role of economic disadvantage and minority status on the probability of mental health diagnosis, the quality of mental health services for culturally diverse populations, urbanized African American communities, promotion of healthy lifestyles for African American women, and obesity among African American women.

Representative publications

Fedoravicius, N., McMillen, C., Rowe J., Kajotho N., & Ware N. (2008). Funneling child welfare consumers into and through the mental health system: Assessment, referral, and quality issues" Social Service Review. 82(2), 273-90.

Rowe, J. E. (2007). Mixing it up: Early African American settlements in northwestern Ohio” Journal of Black Studies, 1-13.

McMillen, C., Fedoravicius N., Rowe J., Zima B., & Ware N. (2006). A crisis of credibility: Professionals’ concerns about the psychiatric care provided to clients of the child welfare system. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 34(3), 203-212.

Whitten, P., & Rowe-Adjibogoun, J. (2003). Researching communication technology intervention projects: The challenge of achieving utilization levels sufficient for evaluation.  Journal for Technology in Human Services, 22(3), 1-16.

Whitten, P., & Rowe-Adjibogoun J. (2002). Success and failure in a Michigan telepsychiatry programme. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 8 (Suppl. 3), 75-77.

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