Institute for Regional and International Studies
Lisa Jackson, a doctoral candidate in Anthropology, employs commodity chain analysis to trace lobsters from the Caribbean to corporations such as Red Lobster and Sysco Foods as a way of studying broader issues such as globalization, economic inequality, and social injustice. Her study examines economic disparities as well as the ecological and material limits of …
Biography Rachel Jacobs is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison focusing on political violence and post-conflict politics. Her project addresses the social legacies of conflict, the effects of wartime governance, and the origins of uneasy peace in Cambodia. She is interested in the ways that informal norms limit the implementation …
Biography Christine Jeske is a PhD student in cultural anthropology, who holds an MBA in international economic development. She has worked for several years in Nicaragua, Western China, and South Africa in a variety of teaching, community development, and business development roles. As a co-director of a microfinance project in South Africa, she became interested …
Biography Wongeun Ji is a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Psychology, with a concentration in human development. After completing undergraduate degree at Korea University, he worked in criminal justice and youth justice in South Korea for ten years as field staff in correctional facilities and a deputy director of the Juvenile Protection Division …
Biography Kim Johnson traveled to Thailand to intern with the Curriculum Project, an NGO dedicated to providing educational aid for migrant learning centers. Learn more about Kim’s experience here.
Biography Bret Johnston spent the summer of 2003 in Laos and Thailand, conducting pre-dissertation research challenging Western theories which posit that the public sphere is by nature a project of modernity. Read on about Bret’s fellowship experience here.
Biography Eunsook Jung is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science who studies the development of social policies in the process of democratization in Indonesia. She started to study about Indonesia in 1997, while completing her master’s thesis on women’s movements in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Afterward, she worked as a program officer for a …
Biography Alice Kang, a Ph.D. candidate in political science, spent 2 years working in Burkina Faso as a community health Peace Corps volunteer. Following her service, she helped develop and coordinate democracy promotion projects in Francophone West Africa for IFES in Washington, DC. Her research explores why changes in women’s rights are seemingly impossible to …
Biography Youbin Kang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research studies the changing nature of work in global supply chains, and its implications on regulation, law, and economic development. She received a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and a B.F.A. in Textiles from Rhode Island School of …
Biography Dimitri Kessler spent the summer of 2003 interning in mainland China. Read about Dimitri’s experience here.