People Type: Faculty

Lisa Bhungalia is an Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and core faculty in the Middle East Studies Program. Their research focuses on late-modern war, law, empire, and transnational linkages between the US and Southwest Asian and North African region. Their first book, Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid …

Katherine Jensen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a former Fulbright Fellow, P.E.O. Scholar, and Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (REI) Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW–Madison. Before joining UW, she …

Veronika Kusumaryati is an assistant professor of anthropology and international studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned her PhD in Anthropology with a secondary field in Film and Visual Studies from Harvard University (2018). Her research has focused on indigenous politics, race and identities, and digital media in Southeast Asia and Melanesia with extensive …

Erica Simmons is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she holds the Department of Political Science Booth Fowler Professorship. In 2023 she was awarded a Romnes Faculty Fellowship by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was also recognized by the American Political Science Association with the David Collier Mid-Career Award for …