Dr. Kowalski, anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Global Affairs at University of Notre Dame, will discuss her research which explores how people, ranging from women facing household violence in Rajasthan to international experts in development anddemocracy, use

interactive activities such as counseling, training, and capacity building to both create and
contest social transformation. Her first book, Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India, traces how counselors seek to simultaneously sustain and transform family life in the wake of violence as they help women navigate complex legal and familial systems.