Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Kurt Kuehne is a Sociology PhD student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies (UW–Madison) and an A.B. in Politics (Princeton). Before starting his graduate studies, Kurt was a Princeton in Asia Fellow at the Singapore Ministry of Education. He later worked for MetaMetrics, an education research and …
Biography Anupama is a first year PhD student in Sociology at UW Madison. Her interests are economic sociology, sociology of economic change and development, gender, finance and the welfare state. She plans to intern with Kudumbashree in Kerala, India, where she hopes to understand how women in communities think of their finances and how states …
Biography Martina Kunovic was born in Zagreb, Croatia, raised in Toronto, Canada, and studied in London, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, before coming to Madison, Wisconsin to pursue a doctorate in sociology. Along the way, Havana, Cuba, captured her personal and academic interest, and this is where she will be carrying out the Scott Kloeck-Jenson International …
Biography Madelaine L’Esperance is a doctoral student in the Consumer Science department. She completed her undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance at Loyola University Chicago in 2014. Her research interests include family economics, social policy, intergenerational mobility, and gender. Madelaine will work with Innovations for Poverty Action Peru this summer evaluating a branchless banking agent …
Biography Jess L’Roe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography. She studies the tradeoffs inherent in balancing environmental and welfare concerns across different groups of people and different generations. She earned her BS in Environmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, near her hometown of Raleigh, NC. After graduating, …
Biography Chaitanya Lakkimsetti is a graduate student in Sociology. Before coming to UW–Madison, she spent several years working with feminist and civil rights movements in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Her dissertation focuses on women’s participation in an underground guerrilla movement in South India. Her proposed project has two components: an ethnographic study of …
Biography Nick Lally is a geographer, artist, and computer programmer with research interests in software studies, social movements, visual epistemology, social and spatial theory, science and technology studies, and feminist thought. His work describes the role of software in constructing the world through its material entanglements with social, political, and economic systems. He is currently …
Biography Lauren Lauter is a 3rd year PhD student in the school of education in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is specializing in comparative and international education with a focus on teacher training. She came to Madison after 8 years teaching elementary school in Chicago, and developing …
Biography Monica Ledesma traveled to Ireland to conduct research on the Irish Catholic missionary movement, mainly during the critical period of political and social change in the first half of the twentieth century. Read on about Monica’s research here.
Biography Joonwoo Lee (he/him/his) is a fourth-year doctoral student in Counseling Psychology, whose research and clinical interests center on supporting transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals who have experienced complex trauma within their attachment relationships (complex PTSD). Joonwoo is currently leading a grounded theory study aimed at investigating TNB people’s experiences of healing from complex PTSD, …