Current Students

Muwafaq Al-serhan MA, International Sustainable Development, Brandeis University
DSP focus: developmental constraints in the Arabic world, particularly in the remote areas.
Paulina Calfucoy MA, International Public Affairs (candidate), UW-Madison
DSP focus: new trends in productive development policies in Latin America. CV
Maria del Pilar Casal MS, Economics, UW-Madison
DSP focus: Argentina after the 1990s with an emphasis on women's situation in the labor markets in the context of labor segmentation and motherhood penalty.
Liliana Cisneros MS, Development Policy and Administration, UW-Madison
DSP focus: institutional capacity building in Nicaraguan municipalities.
Michael Dougherty MA, Political Science, Illinois State University
DSP focus: foreign direct investment in the extractive sector in Central America. CV
Martin Hernandez MA, Rural Development, University Austral de Chile
DSP focus: strategies for improving social and economic livelihoods among rural and low income families in Mexico.
John Ifediora M.A, University of Chicago, J.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D, University of Illinois at Chicago
DSP focus: factors that have perennially subdued socio-economic development in sub-saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on Nigeria.
Annabel Ipsen MA Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico
DSP focus: dynamics of foreign migrant labor in the agricultural sector in northern Chile.
Abdul Rehman Khan MA Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University
DSP focus: governance issues pertaining to social, economical and political development in the less developed countries, especially the South Asian and Southeast Asian region.
Kristin Klingman MS Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona
DSP focus: immigration and sustainable community development in rural Mexico.
Ning Leng MS Public Policy, Carnegie-Mellon University
DSP focus: poverty and economic growth, local governance and institutional arrangements, social welfare policies, land reform, tax policy, migration, democratization, environment and development in Asia.
Janina Mera MA Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis
DSP focus: land reform models in Brazil.
Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie MPhil Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, Obafemi Awolowo University
DSP focus: youth restiveness, global threat and participatory development nexus in Niger Delta, Nigeria. Identifying economic and socio-political-cultural factors that could facilitate the development of the region beyond arms and amnesty.
Kweku Opoku-Agyemang M.A. Economics, Ohio University
DSP focus: savings mobilization and economic development in Ghana.
Jason Paltzer MPH, Public Health, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
DSP topic: comparison of related Bantu worldviews as they pertain to the perceptions of morality in the context of alcohol use in Zambia.
Johanna Quinn MA International Affairs, The New School
DSP topic: gender and environmental sustainability in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
Susanne Ress MA Psychology, University Koblenz-Landau
DSP focus: role of higher education for capacity building and leadership focusing on professional and personal skills acquired at university level as a facet of economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Nancy Rydberg MA Development Management and Policy, Georgetown University
DSP focus: incorporation of refugees in the education system in Uganda, including assessing access to education as well as support provided to refugee students through English Language Learning programs.
Patricia Toledo MS Economics, UW-Madison
DSP focus: structural poverty in Chile from a qualitative-quantitative approach.
Wan Noor Halizan Wan Zan MA Energy and Environmental Analysis, Boston University
DSP focus: correlation between capital inflows and deforestation and desertification in developing countries.
Fred Washington MSW Social Work, Walla Walla College
DSP focus: conflict resolutions between ethnic groups and the role of spirituality in faith-based NGOs.