Dr. Rowe is an assistant professor in African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Michigan State University, her M.P.H. in Health Education and Communications from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and her M.A. in Medical Anthropology from Wayne State University. During her graduate career Rowe held a Ford Fellowship, studied 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.  Prior to coming to VCU, Rowe held an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Mental Health Services Research at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research has involved African Americans in the mental health system and she has published a number of reports and articles that comment on the quality of those services. Currently, she is a National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Scholar.

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