People Type: SKJ 2007

Biography Yousun Chung, a dissertator in political science, has been engaged in studying languages, cultures, and social changes in East Asian countries. She has studied in her native South Korea as well as Japan and China through her undergraduate and graduate studies. After getting her master’s degree in Chinese Area Studies, she has paid more …

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 …

Kate Hiester, a third-year Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology, has lived in Guatemala, Morocco, and Ecuador, but ultimately decided that her heart was in Southeast Asia. When traveling in Vietnam in 2003, she first learned of the floating villages on Ha Long Bay and became fascinated with both the way of life and the massive …

Po-Yi Hung, a doctoral student in human geography, has explored new and challenging viewpoints regarding people-environment relations throughout his career as a researcher and student. He earned his first master degree in environmental planning from National Taiwan University and then worked as an assistant researcher in the Water Resources Management and Policy Center in Taiwan. …

Jessica Krug, a Ph.D. student in African and African Diaspora history, has worked on various projects documenting the history of Maroons (descendents of enslaved Africans who fled the plantations and fought for their freedom) in Jamaica and Suriname. After researching the Caribbean aspect of these histories, including writing her M.A. about the development of nationalist …

Biography Jennifer Petersen, a first-year Ph.D. student in political science, wrote extensively on issues of memory, identity, and violence in Rwanda during her master’s program in Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. After returning to the United States, she has entered the Political Science department with plans to study the formation of post-conflict …

Biography Matt Sienkiewicz is a graduate student in the Communication Arts department in the area of Media and Cultural Studies. Prior to graduate school, Matt worked as a producer, writer and cinematographer, creating documentaries and television programs for various American PBS affiliates and international stations such RTPi in Portugal. He received an Emmy Nomination for …

Teresa Melgar is an international student from the Philippines and a doctoral candidate in Sociology. Prior to her graduate studies at UW–Madison, she worked for over 12 years with a variety of non-government organizations seeking to promote political and economic reforms in the Philippines. Teresa has strong academic and professional interests in comparative studies of …