Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Yue Du is a PhD student in sociology. She got both her bachelor and master degrees in sociology from Peking University. In summer 2010, while she studied the newest mode of urbanization of China in a district in Chengdu, she found that while the traditional and fierce peasant protests didn’t break out as frequently …
Biography Kelly Duke traveled to Dakar, Senegal to conduct pre-dissertation research in Senegal’s National Archive on the development of education in Senegal in the nineteenth century. Read more about Kelly’s fellowship experience here.
Biography Brian Ekdale is a doctoral student in Mass Communication specializing in global media studies. His research focuses on the use of visual media to advocate for social justice in East Africa. Brian has produced videos in three different countries and has won awards at several film festivals. Informed by this background in media production, …
Biography Jennifer Estes is a doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology. She holds a BA in Drama and the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington. Prior to beginning her graduate studies, she worked in a public high school in Kampot Province, Cambodia with the Peace Corps. Jennifer’s dissertation project will examine how ideas …
Nicolle Etchart is a PhD student in the Department of Geography. She studies environmental governance related to conservation policy mixes in Latin America. She earned her B.S. from the University of Florida and her M.A. in Anthropology in Ecuador at FLACSO-Ecuador, where she studied the politics of petroleum extraction and environmental injustice in Ecuador’s northern …
Biography Tony Evenson spent several weeks in south India, where he endeavored to track thematic patterns in the royal iconographies of several major south Indian dynasties. Read about Tony’s fellowship experience here.
Biography Madeleine Fairbairn is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology with a focus on agrofood systems and international development. Before coming to UW-Madison she received a B.S. from Cornell University with a dual major in Development Sociology and Natural Resource Management. Her master’s thesis examined the emerging concept of “food sovereignty” as a …
Biography Sara Farsiu is a PhD dissertator in the Second Language Acquisition program. She was born and raised in Iran. Sara comes to UW-Madison after ten delightful years working and studying linguistics and English Philology at the University of Cologne in Germany. She has been teaching Persian and German at UWMadison since fall 2013. She …
Biography Etienne Fluet-Chouinard grew up in Ottawa, Canada, and is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in freshwater ecology at the Center for Limnology of UW-Madison. Etienne’s doctoral research investigates different aspects of the interactions between anthropogenic activities and freshwater ecosystems at the global scale. During the summer 2016, he will be carrying out a Scott …
Biography Lynn Fredriksson had an adventurous journey to East Timor in 2002, where she was finally able to begin her pre-dissertation research focused on the United Nations’ role in East Timor’s vote for independence. Read about Lynn’s experience here.