Institute for Regional and International Studies
Chisato Fukuda is a second year doctoral student in cultural anthropology with a concentration in medical anthropology and science and technologies studies. Prior to entering graduate school, she worked at National Democratic Institute for International Affairs assisting the South Asia civic participation program and spent two years in Laos conducting sustainable development projects with International …
Biography David Garber comes to the University of Wisconsin with a history of interest and involvement in African- and Arab- centered issues. His undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary in Virginia was in International Relations (African Studies track), and while there he obtained a research fellowship to investigate the post-Apartheid politics of …
Biography Mara Goldman is a graduate student in the Department of Geography preparing to conduct research for her dissertation in Tanzania, Mara is researching the dynamic between local Maasai understandings of nature and resources and those which international, national non-governmental organizations and government agencies promote in their efforts to create conservation “territories,” that is, national …
Biography Michelle Gooch is working on her MS in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development within the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. She received her BS in Biology from Davidson College in North Carolina. A Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow, Michelle is interested in the interface between sustainable development, social justice, and biodiversity conservation …
Biography W. Nathan Green is a second year MA student in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and will continue onto the PhD program in Geography at the UW–Madison in Fall 2014. He holds BA degrees in Geography and the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington. Nathan first became interested in environmental …
Biography David Greenwood-Sanchez is a doctoral student in political science at UW–Madison. He studies biotechnology and civil society activism in Latin America, particularly the use of international law as a means of challenging the adoption and regulation of genetically modified crops. His project will explore the domestic factors that shape the success of this legal …
Biography Corinne Hale is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology focusing on medical anthropology. She is also pursuing a PhD minor in gender and women studies, doula training, and a Master of Public Health. Her primary research interests include reproductive health care, intergenerational maternal knowledge and practices, gender relations, and the interplay of …
Joseph Harris is a doctoral student in Sociology and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. His dissertation research examines the adoption and implementation of universal health care programs in South Africa and Thailand. Previously, he has worked with various development organizations, ranging from the World Bank, Grameen …
Biography Michael Hayata is a second year graduate student in the History Department with a focus on modern East Asia. His research interests include everyday cultural practices within the Ainu community, the indigenous people of northern Japan, during the first half of the twentieth century. He is currently examining how some Ainu writers deployed indigenous …