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Dissertator

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sep 2020 – Present Yogyakarta, ID; Jakarta, ID; Madison, WI

Interviews: Interviewed professional staff and volunteers working in Indonesia

Text as Quantitative Data: Scraped >2000 Indonesian-language articles from 17 news websites using rvest and RSelenium, building a text dataset of >29k sentence-observations

Text as Qualitative Data Conducted historical research of archived training materials, conference proceedings and closeout documents, legal analysis, and policy reports

Code: Building CRAN package newscrapR , a toolkit to find and process text data using targeted searches on websites’ internal search engines

 
 
 
 
 

Educator

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jan 2020 – May 2023 Madison, WI

Lecturer / Course Designer: Designed syllabus for and taught senior seminar on LGBT World Politics.

Teaching Assistant: Taught three sections per-class for Analysis of International Relations (introductory game theory), and Introduction to Research Methods

Guest Lecturer: Analysis of International Relations (“Mixed Strategies and Repeated Games: A Closer Look”), Introduction to Research Methods (“Interviews, Participant-Observation, and Direct Observation”)

Grader: Social Identities

 
 
 
 
 

Writer

Freelance

Aug 2017 – Jun 2023 Remote

Journalism: Wrote two twenty-page profiles for The Caravan, India’s foremost magazine of investigative journalism (subjects: Nikki Haley, Shalabh Kumar)

Essays: Published commentary on media politics in The Atlantic and The New Republic

Editing: Served on the Editorial Board of The Rumpus since 2021

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🎓 PhD in Political Science

🎓 MA in Political Science

🎓 BA in Mathematics

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Graduate Student Teaching Award

Graduate Research Fellow

3 years of full funding for research and professional development. Proved career-preserving when I experienced a severely-disabling injury in AY 2020-2021, providing me with the space to both recover and orient my research towards disability. Reserved AY 2021-2023

Hawai’i/Wisconsin LUCE Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Fellowship

9-month academic stipend to finance Southeast Asia area studies

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship

9-month academic stipend to finance Southeast Asia area studies, disbursed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Critical Language Scholarship

2-month stipend to study Indonesian language in Malang, ID