People Type: SKJ 2017

Biography Saeedeh Asadipour is a PhD student in the department of Art History focusing on contemporary Arab world art and visual culture. Her main academic interest is unravelling the ways in which bodies resist in time of crisis. For her master’s thesis, written in the University of Cincinnati, she looked at the ways of representing …

Biography Stephanie du Chatellier is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology with a minor in Southeast Asian studies. She holds a B.A. with Honors from Wheaton College (MA), where she studied English Literature and Anthropology. Stephanie’s research focuses on the political development of modern Thailand and how Thai identity is constructed in the …

Biography Sara Farsiu is a PhD dissertator in the Second Language Acquisition program. She was born and raised in Iran. Sara comes to UW–Madison after ten delightful years working and studying linguistics and English Philology at the University of Cologne in Germany. She has been teaching Persian and German at UWMadison since fall 2013. She …

Biography David Greenwood-Sanchez is a doctoral student in political science at UW–Madison. He studies biotechnology and civil society activism in Latin America, particularly the use of international law as a means of challenging the adoption and regulation of genetically modified crops. His project will explore the domestic factors that shape the success of this legal …

Biography Youbin Kang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research studies the changing nature of work in global supply chains, and its implications on regulation, law, and economic development. She received a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and a B.F.A. in Textiles from Rhode Island School of …

Biography Niwaeli Kimambo is a PhD student in Geography. She studies smallholders’ land use around protected forests in East Africa. She earned her B.A from Brown University and an M.Sc in Geography from UWMadison. The Master’s project presented options for increasing forest connectivity in Southern Tanzania through incorporating farmer’s woodlots. Niwaeli’s interest in conservation and …

Biography Nick Lally is a geographer, artist, and computer programmer with research interests in software studies, social movements, visual epistemology, social and spatial theory, science and technology studies, and feminist thought. His work describes the role of software in constructing the world through its material entanglements with social, political, and economic systems. He is currently …

Biography Lauren Lauter is a 3rd year PhD student in the school of education in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is specializing in comparative and international education with a focus on teacher training. She came to Madison after 8 years teaching elementary school in Chicago, and developing …

Biography Matthew Venker is a current PhD student in Cultural Anthropology studying forms of political belonging and legal rights in Myanmar (Burma). Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Matthew studied Chinese and Anthropology at St. Olaf College, where his senior thesis critically analyzed the politics of religious freedom contained within China’s constitution. Following graduation, Matthew spent …