Institute for Regional and International Studies
International Division Graduate Summer Fieldwork Awards The International Division is pleased to offer awards of $4,000 to support 6 or more weeks of summer fieldwork conducted outside of the U.S. Any continuing UW–Madison graduate student is eligible to apply. In collaboration with the Black Languages Arts and Culture (BLAC) Foundation, IRIS is pleased to offer a $1,000 …
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship A select number of Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships are available to support summer 2026 intensive foreign language study. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by UW’s area studies centers to assist students in acquiring foreign language and area and/or international studies …
IRIS NRC wants to extend our sincere congratulations to Cat Carroll, UW Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow and IRIS NRC FLAS awardee, whose piece, “Far From Home, Carried by Community: In Austria, a Quiet Network Sustains Filipino Nurses” was just selected as one of the Pulitzer Center’s Stories of the Year! Libby Moeller (Program Manager at the Pulitzer Center) remarked, “Cat Carroll’s …
2026 Annual Student-Faculty Conference on Peace and Conflict Studies: “From DEFENSE to WAR: New Challenges to Global Peacebuilding” Edgewood University and the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies invite students, academics, and activists to submit proposals for papers, presentations, posters, roundtable discussions, artistic products, and/or performances for a one-day conference at the Edgewood University campus in …
The International Division is proud to announce the S & S Scholarship! Through the generous gift of donors, the S & S Scholarship was established to assist undergraduate and graduate students who face financial challenges in affording their education. The funds, to be administered by the International Division, will provide scholarships for students who have …
Cat Carroll (B.A. Journalism, International Studies, and German, ’25) has published a new project with the Pulitzer Center, From the Ground Up: Filipino Community Helps Fill Gaps in Austria’s Health Care. A Wolff Fellow and Health Journalism Fellow with the Association of Health Care Journalists, Carroll investigates how Austria’s Filipino community is addressing a growing …
Cross-posted from the Center for South Asia. Andrea Fowler (Assistant Director, CSA), Essie Lenchner (Assistant Director, IRIS NRC), and Nola Walker (IAS Outreach Librarian, UW–Madison Libraries) have been awarded a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant. This three-year grant supports their Teaching Forward Fellowship, which connects Wisconsin middle school educators with experts in international studies, educational policy, community …
Story by Kayla Daum, Communications Specialist at the International Division Three University of Wisconsin–Madison students are taking their Badger pride to the international stage, tackling everything from food waste in Thailand to environmental policy in Indonesia. As recipients of the NextGen Service Fellowship, Julia Vogel, Christopher Mitchell, and Sydney Radwin are gaining hands-on experience in global …
IRIS NRC Affiliate Claudia Liverseed Wins Award for Best Undergraduate Paper at the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Annual Conference UW–Madison senior Claudia Liverseed spoke at the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (WIPCS) Conference at Marquette University in April. Her conference paper “Women as Peacemakers: Rwanda as a Case Study for …
IRIS NRC Student Scholar Angeline Morgado Presents her Research on the Venezuelan Diaspora at the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Annual Conference. Freshman Angeline Morgado attended the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (WIPCS) annual conference at Marquette University in early April. Angeline, aUW-Madison King Morgridge Scholar and Wisconsin International Scholar, shared …