People Type: SKJ 2016

Biography Puttaporn Areeprachakun is a graduate student in the department of Geography on human geography: Burmese migrant laborers in Thai society. She completed a BA in Geography at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, where she developed an interest in understanding the relationship between human, society and space.  Following her undergraduate studies, she went to UK to …

Biography Wanjing Chen is a second year PhD student in the geography department. She studied in Beijing and Oklahoma before coming to Madison. Previously she conducted research on the labor conditions of rosewood furniture industry in China. It was in tracing the international rosewood trade that she became interested in Chinese investment in Laos. Since …

Nicolle Etchart is a PhD student in the Department of Geography. She studies environmental governance related to conservation policy mixes in Latin America. She earned her B.S. from the University of Florida and her M.A. in Anthropology in Ecuador at FLACSO-Ecuador, where she studied the politics of petroleum extraction and environmental injustice in Ecuador’s northern …

Biography Etienne Fluet-Chouinard grew up in Ottawa, Canada, and is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in freshwater ecology at the Center for Limnology of UW–Madison. Etienne’s doctoral research investigates different aspects of the interactions between anthropogenic activities and freshwater ecosystems at the global scale. During the summer 2016, he will be carrying out a Scott …

Biography Lin Li is a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of History. She is interested in a wide range of disciplines and has a diverse educational background. Before attending University of Wisconsin–Madison, she has majored in History at East China Normal University, Political Science at National Chengchi University, and Philosophy at Calvin College. …

Biography A strong advocator of intersectionality and operating under multidisciplinary lens, Mridu Markan completed a B.A (Hons) in Psychology and received a M.A degree in social work from India. Following her masters studies, she joined the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to work towards prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS epidemic focusing …

Biography Catriona Miller is a doctoral student in the History Department. She studies Southeast Asian History with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies. She holds a B.A. with Honors in History from the Loyola University Maryland. Prior to graduate school, Catriona taught Kindergarten ESL in Memphis, Tennessee. Catriona’s dissertation project will analyze literary and …

Biography Ruth Trumble is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at UW–Madison. She received her M.S. in geography from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Her dissertation examines the local impacts of the May 2014 floods in southeastern Europe. This summer she will conduct interviews and participant observation in Serbia to …

Biography Fernanda Villarroel is a PhD candidate in Art History with a Minor in African Studies Program and a Master in the Anthropology Department. The support of various FLAS scholarship has allowed her to study Yoruba and Hausa languages in order to study contemporary art as a vital social response to the living conditions in …

Biography Allen Xiao is a Chinese Ph.D. student in Geography (with minor in African Studies) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He got M.Phil. in anthropology and completed research on Chinese migrants in Nigeria, which has been published in Politique Africane and Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. Now his interests lie in the making of multi-ethnic …