Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Robyn Autry is a graduate student in Sociology. Her main focus is in political sociology, particularly comparative racial inequality and social movements in the US and South Africa. She completed her Master’s research on the role of the trade union movement in South Africa’s democratic transition and national restructuring in Spring 2003. Contrary to …
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 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 Hui-Jung Kim is a graduate student in Sociology. Her main research interests are social movement, sociology of culture, sociological theory, and comparative studies of Southeast and East Asian countries. She conducted her Master’s Thesis on the anti-eviction movement in South Korea, 1983 to 1991. From the research, she found out that the participants of …
Biography Mark Kramer is a graduate student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications with a focus in International Journalism. He works as a freelance writer for La Comunidad, a Latino newspaper in Madison, as well as other publications and organizations. He has lived and worked in Africa and Asia, the Appalachian foothills of …
Biography Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu is a doctoral student from Malawi in the School of Nursing. Her pursuit of graduate education has been influenced by a number of factors, which mostly relate to the commitment that she has towards addressing the health care needs of the women of Malawi. For her dissertation, Lucy is specifically looking at …
Biography Jelena Subotic is a graduate student in Political Science. Her work lies at the cross-section of comparative politics and international relations, with the special focus on transitional justice, human rights, and international organizations. Jelena’s dissertation explores the proliferation of international models of transitional justice (war crimes trials or truth commissions) and political contestation these …