Institute for Regional and International Studies
Kristen Molyneaux is a first generation college student and currently a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Educational Policy Studies. As a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda and Cape Verde, Kristen worked as a primary school teacher trainer and small enterprise development consultant. Upon return from her volunteer service, she received her Master’s degree …
Biography Fauziyatu Moro (Fauzi) is a PhD student in the African History Program, with a minor in African Cultural Studies. She specializes in 19th and 20th-century West Africa, and her research interests include migration, urbanization, urban popular culture, and gender in Africa. Fauzi received her master’s in History from the University of Ghana where she …
Biography Micah Morton is a third year graduate student in cultural anthropology. He spent 2 years working in Northern Thailand as an instructor and administrator for a study abroad program. Initially interested in working with environmentalist monks, his interests later shifted towards highland minority groups and their ongoing troubles in obtaining full Thai citizenship status …
Biography Ngonidzashe Mpofu is pursuing a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Counselor Education, with a minor in Educational Psychology, Human Development emphasis. She has a M.Ed. in Counselor Education with a dual emphasis in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health, and Clinical Mental Health in Schools and Communities from Penn State, and is a National Certified Counselor (NCC) …
Biography Bidisha is a PhD student in the Medical Humanities track of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UW Madison. She is interested in understanding the nuances of health and medicine and how they are shaped by prolonged militarization. Before coming to UW, she completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Bangla literature …
Biography Alex Nading is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the UW–Madison, with a Masters in the Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation from the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His personal and academic interests are in environmental justice, the transnational proliferation of toxic waste, and the effects of toxic wastes on …
After finishing college, Peter Nasuti spent two years as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan. He then received a master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, during which time he expanded his academic interests to the broader Central and South Asian region. Following a year in India studying Urdu, Peter …
Biography Elsa Noterman is a third-year graduate student pursuing a PhD in Human Geography. She earned a BA in Political Science at Haverford College in 2006. After graduating, she first worked at a public high school in Philadelphia and then worked as a researcher at a nonprofit think tank in Washington D.C., primarily focusing on …
Biography Oghenetoja Okoh is a graduate student in African History. Her graduate work focuses on the impact of the African diaspora, as a cultural force, on the historical development of Africa itself. In 1997 she did research in Nigeria for her honors senior thesis, which looked at the themes of exile and postcoloniality through African …