Institute for Regional and International Studies
Biography E. Kwaku Mintah Danquah is a PhD. Student in African History at UW–Madison. He obtained his MPhil. in History from the University of Ghana and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Education, Winneba. His research interests include African decolonization, African American/Diaspora return migrations to Africa, the creation of Black colonial projects such as …
Biography Magna Mohapatra is a second-year PhD student in the department of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests lie in the intersections of decoloniality, political movements, affect, care, indigeneity and political and legal anthropology. She plans to study the judicial processes that impact the Dongria Kondh communities in Odisha, India in …
Biography Bidisha is a PhD student in the Medical Humanities track of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UW Madison. She is interested in understanding the nuances of health and medicine and how they are shaped by prolonged militarization. Before coming to UW, she completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Bangla literature …
Biography Anika Rice (she/her) is pursuing a PhD in Geography, studying migration, land access, gender and agroecology in Central America. Her dissertation scrutinizes the intersectional roles of gender and land access in family-level transnational migration decisions and outcomes in the western highlands of Guatemala. In this context, how families leverage landholdings for migration is central …
Rachel (she/her) is a PhD Student in Political Science who works at the intersection of environment x tech(ology)(nocracy) x labor politics. She studies the global political economy of technological solutions such as AI, ‘eco-cities’, and our renewable energy transition. For her dissertation, she will conduct multi-sited fieldwork in Monterrey & Oaxaca (Mexico), Detroit and Laredo …