University of Wisconsin–Madison
Growing up in a remote village of Cambodia in a country still wracked with civil war, Sarakk Rith was determined to go to school. “My father was very enthusiastic about education,” he recalls. “He didn’t get an education because of the Khmer Rouge regime, but he wanted his kids to get an education.” It was …
This paper, Global Standards, Corporate Diagrams and Indigenous Agency: ExxonMobil in Russia and Alaska, co-authored by Assistant Professor Leah Horowitz, discusses how the government, and others may play important roles in influencing how corporate policies and global standards are implemented at sites of extraction. Moreover, adaptation of community engagement, benefit-sharing, and environmental monitoring in one …
“Beaches all around, beautiful skies, beautiful food, just beautiful people.” That’s how Alvin Thomas describes his home island of Saint Lucia, located in the Caribbean. But it was the people, and the not-so-idyllic social and economic issues they faced, that inspired Thomas to pursue psychology. He wanted to find ways to support people “who were …
Associate Professor Marianne Fairbanks reflects on her partnership and collaboration: In 2018, I first visited Sweden and Denmark on a research trip to learn more about how textiles are currently taught and more widely perceived as an art form in the Scandinavian culture. As part of this research, I arranged a studio visit with the …
Earlier this summer, Dr. Nancy Murray, Faculty Associate in Retailing & Consumer Behavior, teamed up with Robyn Waters, former VP of Trend, Design & Product Development at Target, to lead a study abroad program through three cities in Europe. Students were required to complete two weeks of online coursework on trend theory and principles before …