Kim (Ramsdell) Rocheville

My research broadly asks questions regarding how individuals and organizations navigate through momentous challenges and adverse events. Such events have widespread and long-lasting effects on individuals and organizations alike as they disrupt routines, obscure established sense of meaning, and evoke intense and often complicated emotional responses. Substantively, my research unpacks how individuals and organizations experience these events, respond to and traverse the time following these events, and ultimately, whether and how they work to overcome these events. I adopt a relational lens through which to explore these areas, often looking to understand the influence of the communities within which individuals and organizations are embedded. I conduct inductive qualitative work, drawing on ethnographic methods for in-depth interviews and participant observation which together provide rich accounts of individuals’ lived experiences.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I was a lecturer at Boston University and also worked in industry for several years developing infrastructure and process design for several organizations. I earned a BS in Management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a MBA and MS from Boston University Questrom School of Business.