People Type: SKJ 2015

Biography Selah Agaba is doctoral student at University of Wisconsin–Madison pursuing a joint degree in Cultural Anthropology & Education Policy Studies. She received a M.Ed. in International Education Development from Teachers College, Columbia University and a B.A in African Languages and Literature from Makerere University, Uganda. Ms Agaba has worked in different capacities as an …

Biography Ritodhi Chakraborty is a doctoral student in the Department of Geography. He has a background in Ecology and Global Environmental Policy and has lived and worked with agrarian communities in the Himalayan region for over five years. He is also a field studies instructor in Bhutan, where he teaches college classes on field research …

Biography Michael Hayata is a second year graduate student in the History Department with a focus on modern East Asia. His research interests include everyday cultural practices within the Ainu community, the indigenous people of northern Japan, during the first half of the twentieth century. He is currently examining how some Ainu writers deployed indigenous …

Biography Ming Hu is a PhD student in Civil Society and Community Research at School of Human Ecology. His research interests include civic engagement, nonprofit management, and philanthropy. With the Scott Kloeck-Jenson predissertation travel grant, Ming will travel to China to explore why and how Chinese youth are engaged in community well-being (like environmental equality, …

Biography Rachel Jacobs is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison focusing on political violence and post-conflict politics. Her project addresses the social legacies of conflict, the effects of wartime governance, and the origins of uneasy peace in Cambodia. She is interested in the ways that informal norms limit the implementation …

Biography Madelaine L’Esperance is a doctoral student in the Consumer Science department. She completed her undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance at Loyola University Chicago in 2014. Her research interests include family economics, social policy, intergenerational mobility, and gender. Madelaine will work with Innovations for Poverty Action Peru this summer evaluating a branchless banking agent …

Biography Neeranooch Malangpoo is a fourth-year graduate student pursuing a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. Originally trained as a folklorist while pursuing her MA in Thai in Thailand, her previous research focuses on rewards and punishments in Thai folktales that channel Thai cultural views of social class and Buddhism. Her current research traces the re-imagination of …

Biography Elsa Noterman is a third-year graduate student pursuing a PhD in Human Geography. She earned a BA in Political Science at Haverford College in 2006. After graduating, she first worked at a public high school in Philadelphia and then worked as a researcher at a nonprofit think tank in Washington D.C., primarily focusing on …

Biography Isabel Pike is a graduate student in the Sociology department at UW–Madison. Affiliated with UW’s Center for Demography and Ecology, her research interests include marriage, family and fertility trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Isabel graduated from Princeton University in 2011, majoring in Anthropology. Her undergraduate thesis was on the practice of bride price in Uganda, …

Biography Mariam Sedighi is a graduate student in the department of Educational Policy Studies, specializing in Comparative International Education and Global Studies. She holds MA degrees in English Language and Literature from Shiraz University (Iran) and in Education Policy (International) from the University of Melbourne (Australia). Mariam is broadly interested in the ways individuals make …