Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Tyler A. Lehrer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History with a minor emphasis in gender and women’s studies. He holds an M.A. in religious studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. Tyler’s research engages the history of religious and diplomatic exchange in the early modern Indian ocean, specifically intersections between Buddhist …
Biography Lin Li is a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of History. She is interested in a wide range of disciplines and has a diverse educational background. Before attending University of Wisconsin–Madison, she has majored in History at East China Normal University, Political Science at National Chengchi University, and Philosophy at Calvin College. …
Biography Lili Liang is a doctoral student in sociology. She previously conducted research on higher education in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong Province in China. She examined how the recent enrollment expansion in Chinese higher education affected college graduate employment. For her Master’s, she studied the so-called “Ant Tribe” college graduates in Shanghai and experienced their …
Biography K. Frances Lieder is a third-year PhD student in the department of Theater and Drama. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, performance studies, gender studies, and South Asian languages and literature. An honored two-year recipient of a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship, she is proficient in both Hindi and Bengali and intends to …
Vijay Limaye is a joint PhD student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Population Health Sciences. A Madison native, he completed his B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 and then worked as a scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in San Francisco on Clean Water …
Biography Yeri Lopez is a doctoral candidate of Latin American History, with a previous master’s in International Public Affairs from the La Follette School of Public Affairs. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, Yeri’s academic interests are in contemporary South American indigenous movements, particularly the Bolivian Aymara. His work employs the concepts of analogous …
Biography Dorothy Lsoto is a PhD student in Environment and Resources at the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at UW–Madison. She holds a Masters in Environment and Resources with a certificate in Energy Analysis and Policy from UW–Madison. Her current research focuses on integrating air pollution in respiratory disease management in children under 5 years …
Biography Aliza Luft spent a summer in Paris, France conducting pre-dissertation research on public defections from political commitments in a high-risk context – specifically, understanding why bishops deviated from Catholic Church policies and how those actions impacted the evolution of the Holocaust in France. Aliza’s post-fellowship report can be found here.
Biography Julian Lynch is a PhD student in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. His work focuses on festivals and music in India and their place within narratives of social change. Through the help of the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship, he will conduct preliminary research toward his dissertation in Delhi, Gurgaon, and Nagpur. In examining archival resources, Julian hopes …
Biography Neeranooch Malangpoo is a fourth-year graduate student pursuing a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. Originally trained as a folklorist while pursuing her MA in Thai in Thailand, her previous research focuses on rewards and punishments in Thai folktales that channel Thai cultural views of social class and Buddhism. Her current research traces the re-imagination of …