A UW-MADISON CHE / UK DOPE GRAD STUDENT COLLAB
MEET THE TEAM
Meet the grad students behind this project!
Inigo Acosta
Inigo (he/him) is a 1st year PhD Student in the Cultural Anthropology program at UW-Madison. He studies former American colonial plantations in the Pacific, specifically the Del Monte pineapple plantation in Mindanao, Philippines. He is interested in the intersections between land, fruit, and indigenous plantation laborers.
AIDA Arosoaie
Bio coming soon!
Tayib Bah
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Jed DeBruin
Jed DeBruin (he/him) is a third-year PhD student and graduate instructor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. Jed's research interests include food justice, race & racism, political economy (especially Marxian economics), Appalachia, and political ecologies. He is currently preparing his dissertation research integrating archival methods on Black farming history in Appalachian Kentucky with oral histories with present-day Black farmers in the region. He is drawn to this project due to his interest in everyday geographies and the continual work of critically examining how the past continues to shape and inform the present through settler colonialism and white supremacy. Outside of his research, he is an avid backyard chicken farmer.
ZHE YU LEE
Bio coming soon!
BRI MEYER
Bri (she/her) is a PhD dissertator in cultural anthropology at UW-Madison. She does multispecies ethnography working with the American Saddlebred show horse community. Her specific research interests in this area include the creation and cultivation of caring bonds across species that are collaborative, embodied, and gendered. She is invested in this project as a resident of Wisconsin, as a descendant of a settler agricultural family, and as a lifelong horseback rider.
Molli PAULIOT
Molli Pauliot (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at UW-Madison in the Department of Anthropology. She is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, Buffalo clan. Ms. Pauliot’s research interests within Cultural Anthropology are in Native American populations in the Great Lakes Region, material culture, Native American art, museum anthropology, indigenous resilience, climate change, and United States American Indian policy. Ms. Pauliot has a PhD minor in art, she is an accomplished designer and bead worker.
Anika Rice
Anika Rice (she/her) is a People-Environment Geographer studying agroecology, gender and migration in a changing climate. Her background in experiential education includes food systems & farm ecology curriculum, native plants & folk herbalism lessons, backpacking skills, mindfulness, earth-based Judaism, and holding intentional space for group connection.
Helen Richardson
Helen (she/her) is a Masters student in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests include political ecology, coloniality, tourism, faith communities, the pandemic, and environmental justice. Helen’s master’s work investigates the Tanzanian tourism sector during the COVID-19 pandemic and the relationship of tourism development to colonialism. She is a white settler student and teacher at the University of Kentucky, a land grant institution.
Corrin Turkowitch
Corrin (they/them) is a first year PhD student in the Department of Geography at University of Kentucky. Their research centers around settler colonialism, frontier mythology, white supremacy, and memorialization. Their work reveals how monuments and memorials reassert these ideologies in public spaces, as well as opens futures beyond settler commemoration. In addition, they are interested in herbalism, witchcraft, gender, rivers, poetry, and going to the archives. They have a vested interest in this project as white settler who grew up in Milwaukee, WI and now lives in Kentucky.
Kase Wheatley
Kase is passionate about agrarian and economic democracy. He is interested in commoning the commonwealth and is curious about the role of feminism, anti-colonial politics, and the sacred within agroecology. Under the guidance of Dr. Michael Bell, Kase is working to co-create popular agroecological education in support of thriving rural communities.