Institute for Regional and International Studies
IRIS NRC is delighted to announce that UW–Madison junior Zindzi Frederick has been awarded a 2026 Reporting Fellowship by the Pulitzer Center. The Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowships support students pursuing independent journalism projects on underreported global topics including climate change, migration and refugees, global health, and human rights. Frederick’s project will report on the growing …
The Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship is open to undergraduate and graduate degree-seeking students in any discipline currently enrolled at UW-Madison, and provides up to $5,000 in funding for students to pursue an international reporting project. The reporting project is generally undertaken in the summer with an expectation that fellows spend at least two weeks in their research location.
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 …
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 …
IRIS NRC is delighted to announce that UW–Madison senior Catherine “Cat” Carroll has been awarded a 2025 Reporting Fellowship by the Pulitzer Center. Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowships support students pursuing independent journalism projects on underreported global topics including climate change, migration and refugees, global health, and human rights. Carroll’s project “Critical Care: Two Nations, One …
The Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship is open to undergraduate and graduate degree-seeking students in any discipline currently enrolled at UW–Madison, and provides up to $5,000 in funding for students to pursue an international reporting project. The reporting project is generally undertaken in the summer with an expectation that fellows spend at least two weeks in …
University of Wisconsin–Madison alum Rachel Hale has been awarded a 2024 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship, which supports international student journalism on underreported global topics. Hale, who graduated in 2024 from UW–Madison’s honors program with degrees in journalism and political science, reported on Sephardic Jewry in Spain and the Jewish diaspora. Her project evaluated the impact …
The Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship is open to undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline currently enrolled at UW–Madison, and provides up to $5,000 in funding for students to pursue an international reporting project. The reporting project is generally undertaken in the summer with an expectation that fellows spend at least two weeks in their …
UW–Madison Senior Audrey Thibert joined over 40 other Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellows in Washington, D.C. for the Pulitzer Center’s 9th annual Washington Weekend. The three days of learning and community building centered around the work of Reporting Fellows from across the United States reporting on issues from global health and climate change to gender and …
We are excited to celebrate the recent publications of our 2023 Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium reporting fellow, Audrey Thibert. Audrey travelled to Tunisia in August to conduct interviews for her project, “A Shared Uncertainty: Migration Stories from Tunisia.” Her three articles present intimate profiles and tell the stories of people she interviewed during her time …