Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Miriam Thangaraj is a 2nd-year student in the Educational Policy Studies department, with a concentration in International and Comparative Education. She is broadly interested in how global norms are translated into local idiom in national education policy, and understood and embodied within classrooms and school-based communities in India. Her research this summer, supported by …
Biography Noah Theriault is a doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology, with undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Spanish from Arizona State University. Broadly stated, Noah studies how the social and environmental are mutually implicated in both policy and practice. For his dissertation, Noah will carry out ethnographic research in the Philippines, where he will examine the …
Biography Fadjar I. Thufail is a graduate student in Anthropology. Besides pursuing his doctorate at UW–Madison, Fadjar Thufail is also a researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Science in Jakarta. His main focus of study is the anthropology of violence and riot. He is also interested in the topics of public sphere, narrative, and cultural …
Biography Sarah Tolbert is a PhD student in the Geography Department where her work focuses on the intersection of community well-being, forest conservation, and land tenure in Central Africa. After completing a joint bachelor’s degree in political science and environmental studies, Sarah joined the Peace Corps and served as an agricultural extension volunteer in Benin …
Biography Irène Tombo is a first year Ph.D. student in Comparative Politics. She was born and raised in Goma, DRC. She recently graduated from Johns Hopkins University-SAIS with an MA (2017) in International Economics with concentrations in African Studies and International Political Economy. Prior to attending SAIS, she attended the University of the Incarnate Word …
Biography Claudia M. Triana is a doctoral student in education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A scholar of comparative and international education, her research focuses on the inequities of im/migration and education policies, displacement, and resistance. Her pre-dissertation fieldwork examines how displaced migrant families make sense of deportation or forced return and how …
Biography Ruth Trumble is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at UW–Madison. She received her M.S. in geography from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Her dissertation examines the local impacts of the May 2014 floods in southeastern Europe. This summer she will conduct interviews and participant observation in Serbia to …
Melissa Tully, a PhD candidate in Mass Communication, studies media in Africa, with a focus on Internet and mobile technology and human rights reporting. Melissa completed a master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication at the UW in 2005 and wrote her thesis on newspaper coverage of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. This research …