PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brandon is a PhD student specializing in electromagnetics and vacuum electronics. His research seeks to push the boundaries of X-ray Communications (XCOM) to enable faster and more effective data transfer.
WARF
Emily Fornof
PhD student, Geography
Emily is a WARF-supported project assistant on the Research Forward project examining climate change and conflict in the Sahel region of West Africa. Her own research looks at how climate change and conflict affect social identities and livelihood practices among livestock herders in Mali.
Claire Kilgore
PhD candidate, Art History
Claire’s dissertation explores depictions of pregnancy, reproductive anatomy, and childbirth in devotional art from the late Middle Ages. She analyzes what those depictions say about perceptions of the human body, reproductive health, and their connections to philosophy and religion.
Fernanda Szewc
PhD candidate, Clinical Investigation
Fernanda is a PhD candidate working in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Public Health. She develops cancer treatments that utilize immune cells.
Ilhan Bok
PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ilhan’s research on magnetic particle imaging has earned journal articles and campus news coverage for paving the way for scientific advances in brain and organ imaging.
Harry Kiiru
PhD candidate, African Cultural Studies, minor in African American Studies
Kiiru’s dissertation considers how African immigrants to the U.S. from the 1950s through the present day interact with American racial logics and politics, in how they are seen, defined, and treated, and how they accept or challenge the racial designations placed upon them.
Yacov Zohn
PhD student, History
Yacov Zohn is a PhD candidate in History at UW–Madison specializing in sports history. His dissertation follows the story of the national Soviet soccer team from its first competitive international competition at the 1952 Olympics to its disintegration in the early 1990s.
Elliott Brandsma
PhD student, Scandinavian Studies
As a PhD student, Elliott studies how trends and features of literary modernism took root across the Nordic region during the first half of the 20th century. Two of the authors he works on – Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness and Swedish poet Harry Martinson – have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.