Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Lawrence Andrea, a 2020 UW–Madison graduate, has been named one of 40 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellows this year. Andrea is currently working as a freelance reporter in Madison; his Pulitzer Center project will focus on post-asylum life for refugees in Greece and the absence of integration plans for asylees.
Biography 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, …
Biography IRIS NRC is delighted to announce that UW–Madison junior Zindzi Frederick has been awarded a 2026 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. Frederick’s project will report on the growing …
Biography 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 of …
Biography Colleen Henegan is a PhD student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She became passionate about studying the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia while researching edible insect farming there in 2019, during the worst drought that the region has experienced in decades. Her dissertation work …
Biography 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 in Tunisia. …