Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Prerna Rana is a PhD student in the Department of Civil Society and Community Research in the School of Human Ecology. Her research interests include grassroots community development, food systems, gender empowerment, civic engagement and stakeholder dynamics in the development sector that shape and influence community power. Prior to commencing her PhD at UW–Madison, …
Biography Pamela Reyes Galgani is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at UW–Madison with a concentration in comparative international education and global studies. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship in the United States and holds a Master of Philosophy from the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Her current research examines …
Biography Anika Rice (she/her) is pursuing a PhD in Geography, studying migration, land access, gender and agroecology in Central America. Her dissertation scrutinizes the intersectional roles of gender and land access in family-level transnational migration decisions and outcomes in the western highlands of Guatemala. In this context, how families leverage landholdings for migration is central …
Biography Erika Robb is a doctoral candidate in the department of Anthropology, with a Master’s in Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago. She works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she is beginning dissertation research comparing two types of travel to that city: sex tourism and favela (slum) tourism. Sex and favela tourism …
Biography César A. Rodríguez-Garavito is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology. He was a professor of law in his native country, Colombia, before deciding to pursue a doctorate. He has been active in Latin American NGO and human rights circles, as a researcher for the Latin American Institute for Alternative Legal Services (ILSA) …
Biography Hugh Roland is a PhD student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. He is a sociology minor and an affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for Culture, History, and the Environment. His research interests focus on climate change related human migration, health disparities, and issues of power and …
Biography Noah Rost is a graduate student in the Department of Geography. Prior to his arrival in Madison, he attended Louisiana State University where he completed a Master of Arts degree in Geography. His thesis research examined the connections between late nineteenth and early twentieth century Serbian cultural representations of Kosovo and the emergence of …
Biography Susan Rottmann is a graduate student in Cultural Anthropology planning dissertation research with Turkish immigrants to Germany. After a year at the University of Heidelberg, Susan began exploring the complex interactions between Turkish immigrants, native Germans, and the German nation-state. Susan’s research explores how Germany’s Turkish Muslim minority is navigating conflicting religious, ethnic, and …
Biography Eli Ruben is a graduate student in the History Department. He is traveling to Germany this summer to examine the question of how popular consent and state hegemony developed in former East Germany during the Cold War. In particular, Eli seeks to explore how the Communist ruling party, cultural institutions and mass publications worked …
Nancy Rydberg is a doctoral candidate pursuing a joint degree in Educational Policy Studies and Development Studies. She has a Masters in Development Management and Public Policy from Georgetown University, and she has conducted previous research on public policy and programming surrounding the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Buenos …