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Graduate Research Fellows

2025–2026

Chandni Anandha Krishnan

Email: anandhakrish@wisc.edu

Address:
Human Development and Family Studies
School of Human Ecology

Alexis Avery

Email: aavery2@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Management & Human Resources

Zach Babat

Email: zbabat@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics and Real Estate & Urban Land Economics

Zohal Barsi

Email: barsizohal@gmail.com

Address:
Department of Economics

Alison Berube

Email: aberube@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Consumer Science, School of Human Ecology

Asha Sekhar Bharadwaj

Email: asha.bharadwaj@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Abigayle Brooks

Email: abbrooks2@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Taehwan Choi

Email: tchoi9@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Ruth Cohen

Email: rcohen22@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics, Finance

Lawrence Czeponis

Email: czeponis@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Political Science

Mary Daniels

Email: mdaniels6@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Caitlin Dutta

Email: csdutta@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Cache Ellsworth

Email: crellsworth@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Jacob Erickson

Email: jaerickson3@wisc.edu

Address:
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics

Michael Fogarty

Email: michael.fogarty@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Andrea Franco Hernandez

Email: francohernan@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Foram Gathia

Email: gathia@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Acadia Gilchrist

Email: algilchrist@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Political Science

Jimin Gim

Email: jimin.gim@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Sociology

Jacob Goss

Email: jgoss3@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Hanna Han

Email: hhan82@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Sangdo Han

Email: wshan23@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Jill Hoiting

Email: jhoiting@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Siyuan Hu

Email: shu248@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Xiyuan Hu

Email: xiyuan.hu@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Population Health Sciences

Wanting Jiang

Email: wjiang96@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Consumer Science

Swati Joshi

Email: ssjoshi26@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Sohee Kim

Email: skim2247@wisc.edu

Address:
Social & Administrative Sciences Division
School of Pharmacy

Abbie Klein

Email: aeklein6@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Psychology

Anna Ko

Email: anna.ko@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Jamie Koenig

Email: jkoenig6@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Jungjin Koo

Email: jungjin.koo@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Katherine Kwok

Email: khkwok2@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Grace Landrum

Email: glandrum@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Frankie Lin

Email: flin52@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Heather Little

Email: hlittle2@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Pedro Felipe Magaña-Sáenz

Email: maganasaenz@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Isabel McMullen

Email: imcmullen@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Political Science

Eleanna Melcher

Email: emmelcher@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Population Health Sciences

Sara Nadi

Email: snadi@wisc.edu

Address:
Social and Administrative Sciences Division
School of Pharmacy

Bezankeng Njinju

Email: njinju@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Johanna Nunez

Email: jgnunez@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Sociology

Iris Park

Email: park487@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Risk and Insurance

So Yun Park

Email: spark553@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Sociology

Sara Peters

Email: speters27@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Sociology

Leah Pomerantz

Email: lapomerantz@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Kaitlyn Pritzl

Email: kepritzl@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Chloe Rosenstock

Email: crosenstock@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Sociology

Sarah Salas

Email: sssalas@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Sociology

Alexis Smith

Email: amsmith67@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Ann Swanson

Email: aswanson26@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Kathryn Taber

Email: ktaber2@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work

Michael Topping

Email: mtopping@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Sociology

Anna Walther

Email: awalther2@wisc.edu

Address:
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Zoe Walts

Email: zwalts@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Population Health Sciences

Avery Warner

Email: avery.warner@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Sociology

Tyler Welch

Email: tyler.welch@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Risk and Insurance, Wisconsin School of Business

Rachel Widra

Email: rwidra@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Haoyuan Xia

Email: hxia35@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Risk and Insurance

Serena Xu

Email: sxu373@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Maryam Yavas

Email: yavas2@wisc.edu

Address:
Department of Economics

Xiaoou Zhan

Email: xzhan23@wisc.edu

Address:
Economics, Real Estate and Urban Land Economics