Dr. Karoline Guelke is a cultural anthropologist with extensive teaching experience. Her research interests include tourism development, globalization, culture change, food, gender issues and the ways these play out in cross-cultural contexts.
Karoline’s doctoral work involved ethnographic research in a tourist destination in Peru’s Cusco region; it critically examined the experiences of travellers and the complex impacts of tourism employment and visitors’ presence on local people.
Karoline is also interested in visual methodologies and has used photovoice, an approach where participants contribute their own photos and sketching in her research.
Experience
Karoline Guelke has taught in the fields of anthropology, gender studies and global development studies. She brings more than 17 years of teaching experience to Royal Roads.
While at Camosun College in Victoria, she served on the Human Rights Committee and helped organize community events. She also worked as a teaching assistant consultant at the University of Victoria.
Karoline has been engaged in community work in Canada and the US, and has provided consulting to volunteer organizations in Peru and Nepal. This experience, along with her long-term fieldwork for her Masters and PhD research, have given her significant cross-cultural expertise.
Karoline's research in Peru also allowed her to gain first-hand experience with tourism businesses in the context of a developing country. Karoline speaks English, German and Spanish.
Education
2018
PhD in Anthropology
University of Victoria
2004
MA in Anthropology
University of Calgary
2004
ESL Teacher Training Certificate
Oxford Seminars, Vancouver
2000
BA in Anthropology
Vancouver Island University
Awards
2019
Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Award
Canadian Anthropology Society
2014-2017
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral
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2013
Graduate award
University of Victoria
2013
Outstanding Graduate Entrance Award
University of Victoria
2009
International Spirit Award
Camosun College
2002
Graduate Research Scholarship
University of Calgary
Publications
Guelke, K. (2021). The living Inca town: Tourist encounters in the Peruvian Andes. University of Toronto Press.
Guelke, K. & Hagestedt, E. (2020). Photovoice as a visual research method: Adaptations from projects in Peru and Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Communication Research 8(1-2):54-85.
Guelke, K. (2014/15). Tourist photography in Peru: An actor-network-theory approach to tourist photographs posted online. Material Culture Review 80/81:134-150.
Guelke, K. (2014). Shanti’s birthday: Reflections of a tourist/volunteer/anthropologist. Platforum 14:125 - 37.
Guelke, K. (2014). The diversity of gender roles in the Andes: Implications for tourism. Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimiento/Journal of Tourism and Development 21/22(1):317-327.
Guelke, K. (2004). Dietary choices in the Vilcanota Valley of Peru: Local opinions about taste and health value of common foods. Vis-á-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 7:26-37.