People Type: SKJ 2010

Barry Driscoll is a PhD student studying Africa in the UW–Madison Political Science Department. His research focuses on state-society relations in developing countries. His dissertation examines the reasons for variation in state capacity not across countries but within them. He has twice graduated Summa Cum Laude, first with a BA International in History, Sociology, and …

Biography Madeleine Fairbairn is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology with a focus on agrofood systems and international development. Before coming to UW–Madison she received a B.S. from Cornell University with a dual major in Development Sociology and Natural Resource Management. Her master’s thesis examined the emerging concept of “food sovereignty” as a …

Biography Yeri Lopez is a doctoral candidate of Latin American History, with a previous master’s in International Public Affairs from the La Follette School of Public Affairs. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, Yeri’s academic interests are in contemporary South American indigenous movements, particularly the Bolivian Aymara. His work employs the concepts of analogous …

After finishing college, Peter Nasuti spent two years as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan. He then received a master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, during which time he expanded his academic interests to the broader Central and South Asian region. Following a year in India studying Urdu, Peter …

Biography Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, a student in Development Studies, spent his National Service working for the Ghanaian Ministry of Education. He developed an interest in debates about whether globalization meant the eclipse of the informal economy which sustained the livelihoods of most Ghanaians. After obtaining his Masters in Economics, he revisited Ghana in 2008 as has …

Biography Noah Theriault is a doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology, with undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and Spanish from Arizona State University. Broadly stated, Noah studies how the social and environmental are mutually implicated in both policy and practice. For his dissertation, Noah will carry out ethnographic research in the Philippines, where he will examine the …