Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Sahil Sasidharan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography. He is trained as an architect with a Masters of Planning (specializing in Housing) from the School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi in India, and a mid-career MA in Cities and Global Development from the University of Sheffield in the U.K. Prior to …
Biography Prakirati Satasut spent the summer of 2011 in Thailand conducting preliminary fieldwork among urban Buddhists to examine contemporary urban meditation movements as a site of religious renewal and change. Check out Prakirati’s post-fellowship report here.
Biography Paul Schaefer conducted exploratory pre-dissertation research, mainly in Sarajevo, on the impact of the Zone of Separation (ZOS) on Bosnian-Herzegovinian sovereignty and its implications. Read about Paul’s research here.
Biography Mariam Sedighi is a graduate student in the department of Educational Policy Studies, specializing in Comparative International Education and Global Studies. She holds MA degrees in English Language and Literature from Shiraz University (Iran) and in Education Policy (International) from the University of Melbourne (Australia). Mariam is broadly interested in the ways individuals make …
Biography Angela Serrano is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at UW–Madison. Her research draws on agrarian studies and political ecology to understand how consumption and finance shape the livelihood possibilities of farmers and farmworkers. She currently studies oil palm crops, looking at how the involvement of financial investors in these crops is changing crop management …
Biography Matt Sienkiewicz is a graduate student in the Communication Arts department in the area of Media and Cultural Studies. Prior to graduate school, Matt worked as a producer, writer and cinematographer, creating documentaries and television programs for various American PBS affiliates and international stations such RTPi in Portugal. He received an Emmy Nomination for …
Catherine Sikubwabo Honeyman, a graduate student in the department of Educational Policy Studies, first traveled to Rwanda in 2002 as an observer of the pilot phase of Rwanda’s transitional justice system. During that trip, Honeyman also became interested in the role education systems can play in promoting social and economic change. In the past year …
Biography Rachel Silver is a joint-degree doctoral candidate in Educational Policy Studies and Cultural Anthropology. She holds an MA in African Studies from Yale University and is co-author of Educated for Change?: Muslim Refugee Women in the West, as well as chapters in edited volumes on gender and forced migration, globalization and education, and meeting …
Biography Tyrone Siren interned with the Center for Social Development (CSD) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to conduct a national public opinion survey on the rapid development of Cambodia’s gambling industry. Read about Tyrone’s experience in Cambodia here.
Biography Tyrone Siren is a graduate student studying the countries of Cambodia and Thailand in the department of Anthropology. In particular, Tyrone’s project concerns the development of “international casinos” that Thai businessmen own but operate in the border areas of Cambodia, rather than in Thailand (where gambling is illegal). Making the project doubly complex, many …