Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Juliana Brandão is a 10-year experienced Brazilian lawyer and a first-year Ph.D. student in the Environment and Resources program at The Nelson Institute. Her primary areas of expertise are in labor and public law in Brazil. She has a master’s in International Commercial Law from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Currently, Juliana is …
Biography David Bresnahan is a doctoral student in African history. He holds an MA in history from Ohio University where he researched colonial-era discourses surrounding sacred sites and traditional authority in coastal Kenya. His current research interests focus on precolonial coastal East Africa. He will use the Scott Kloek-Jenson fellowship to travel to Kenya and …
Biography Karin Butterworth is a graduate student in cultural anthropology. After receiving her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Colgate University, she worked as an intern at Cultural Survival where she conducted research and wrote news articles about indigenous peoples in Africa. She also worked for Maasai Education Discovery, a nonprofit organization that promotes education …
Biography Cleo Calimbahin, a fourth-year graduate student in Political Science, came to UW–Madison with a Fulbright scholarship after obtaining an MSc from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She has been teaching Philippine Political Institutions at the University of Asia and the Pacific in the Philippines since 1995, while …
Biography Scott Carney is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Before pursuing graduate studies he was the Senior Editor of Manhattan Style magazine. His freelance writing can be found in Fodor’s Travel Guides, India Today and Shout NY. Scott is an active member of the South Asian Journalists …
Biography Tanya Carney is a graduate student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. She is pursuing a master’s degree in Environment and Resources, with a minor emphasis in African Studies. Prior to her graduate studies Tanya worked for Blumont, an international development agency, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer focusing on education and …
Biography Kathleen Cawley is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies program. Her work looks at the proliferation of content that engages real people, events, and cultural trauma in contemporary Irish theatre. She explores the theatre that features experiences of queer people, women, institutionalized children, and indigenous language speakers, narratives erased by the cultural …
Biography Ritodhi Chakraborty is a doctoral student in the Department of Geography. He has a background in Ecology and Global Environmental Policy and has lived and worked with agrarian communities in the Himalayan region for over five years. He is also a field studies instructor in Bhutan, where he teaches college classes on field research …
Biography Sarbani Chakraborty is a doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She grew up and studied till the Masters level in India and worked in Singapore as a school social worker for two years. She joined the School of Social Work but later switched to the School of Education to pursue her …
Biography Huai-Hsuan Chen is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology. Her research foci include pluralism of touristic experiences and embodiment of spatial identity in terms of community development, involvement of nation, and globalization. While visiting northwest Yunnan in the summer 2007, she was stunned by the emerging style of “original ecology” performances as a way …