Carol Conzelman, Ph.D.

  • Associate Director of Environment & Natural Sciences RAP
  • Teaching Associate Professor
  • ARTS & SCIENCES RESIDENTIAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
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Caroline S. Conzelman (Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, 2007; Secondary Teaching Credential, Life Sciences, Humboldt State University, 1993; B.S. and B.A. Zoology, Miami University of Ohio, 1989) is a Teaching Professor with the College of Arts & Sciences Residential Academic Programs (RAPs) at CU Boulder, and the Program Director of the Environment & Natural Sciences RAP in Baker Hall. Dr. Conzelman has conducted ethnographic research with agrarian labor unions and indigenous communities in the Andes mountains of Bolivia since 1997, and she directed a Study Abroad course there for 10 years through the Anthropology Department. She now teaches a summer Study Abroad program on sustainability and entrepreneurship in Bali, Indonesia through the Environmental Studies Department. In 2022 she was selected for the Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy Award by the Boulder Faculty Assembly, and in 2020 she won the Best Should Teach Gold Award from the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Since 1995, Dr. Conzelman has been a Team Leader with the international grassroots development organization Global Volunteers, coordinating service-learning programs in Jamaica, Ecuador, Italy, Tanzania, Ireland, Cuba, and Poland. She teaches courses on democracy, drug policy, globalization, development, immigration, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, Latin American history and culture, and community engagement. She is Faculty Adviser for the CU chapters of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the Psychedelic Club, and CannaBuffs. She has served as Associate Director of the Global Studies RAP, and as Faculty-in-Residence with G-RAP and the Sustainability and Social Innovation RAP. She has also taught for the Honors, Stories and Societies, and Sustainability RAPs, the International Affairs Program, and the Anthropology Department. Dr. Conzelman enjoys mentoring RAP students on the first-year experience, sponsoring undergraduate Teaching Assistants and UROP grants, serving on Honors thesis committees, and facilitating dialogues between students and community members on a wide range of topics.