Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography David Bresnahan is a doctoral student in African history. He holds an MA in history from Ohio University where he researched colonial-era discourses surrounding sacred sites and traditional authority in coastal Kenya. His current research interests focus on precolonial coastal East Africa. He will use the Scott Kloek-Jenson fellowship to travel to Kenya and …
Biography Erin Kitchell is a master’s student in Geography with a BA in History from Rhodes College. Prior to coming to UW-Madison as a graduate student, she spent four years working on community-based public health and environmental projects in Senegal and Mali. Her academic interests include land-use planning in pastoral zones, local responses to climate …
Vijay Limaye is a joint PhD student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Population Health Sciences. A Madison native, he completed his B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 and then worked as a scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in San Francisco on Clean Water …
Biography Julian Lynch is a PhD student in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. His work focuses on festivals and music in India and their place within narratives of social change. Through the help of the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship, he will conduct preliminary research toward his dissertation in Delhi, Gurgaon, and Nagpur. In examining archival resources, Julian hopes …
Nancy Rydberg is a doctoral candidate pursuing a joint degree in Educational Policy Studies and Development Studies. She has a Masters in Development Management and Public Policy from Georgetown University, and she has conducted previous research on public policy and programming surrounding the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Buenos …
Bethany Wilinski is a doctoral student pursuing a joint degree in Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum & Instruction, with a master’s from Columbia University Teachers College. Prior to pursing her doctoral degree, Bethany taught primary school in the U.S. and Tanzania and conducted research and teacher training workshops in Tanzania. Bethany’s doctoral research will examine …