Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography Sarinna Areethamsirikul, a doctoral candidate in Development Studies with a masters of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, interned on the UN’s human dignity pilot project before deciding to pursue a doctorate. She served as an interpreter during fieldwork and also contributed to the analysis of the role of international organizations …
Biography Sarah Besky, a graduate student in Anthropology, completed her BA at Connecticut College in Anthropology and Asian Religions. Before entering graduate school, Sarah lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, and conducted research on tourism and tourist art. Her interests now revolve around environmental and development anthropology in Northern India, specifically in Darjeeling. Sarah’s interests in Darjeeling …
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 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 Alex Nading is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the UW–Madison, with a Masters in the Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation from the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His personal and academic interests are in environmental justice, the transnational proliferation of toxic waste, and the effects of toxic wastes on …
Biography Natalie Porter spent a year and a half in Vietnam teaching English and studying Vietnamese before beginning a PhD program in cultural anthropology. While in Vietnam, Natalie was struck by the way that discourses of development saturated the minutiae of everyday life. She became interested in how global processes of economic development collide with …