PhD Students

The north entrance to the School of Social Work building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seen on Aug. 28, 2012. (Photo by Bryce Richter / UW-Madison)

Nahime G. Aguirre Mtanous, AM, LSW

Credentials: University of Chicago AM'22, AB'19

Position title: L&S CGRS Fellow

Courtney Blanford

Credentials: MSW, North Carolina State University, 2021; BSPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018

Position title: Project Assistant

Abigayle Brooks, LMSW

Credentials: MSW, University of Texas at Arlington, 2021; BSW, University of Texas at Arlington, 2020

Position title: L&S CGRS Fellow

Jacqueline Buck

Credentials: MSW, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2024; BS, University of Delaware, 2018

Taehwan Choi

Credentials: MSW, University of Michigan, 2023; BA, Hanyang University, 2019

Position title: Project Assistant

Candace Coates

Credentials: MSW, Loyola University Chicago, 2008; MSE, University of Wisconsin- Platteville, 2015; BA, Marquette University, 2003

Position title: Advanced Opportunity Fellow

Evelyn Joy Coker

Position title: Kemper Knapp Fellow w/o Appointment

Caro Cruys

Credentials: MSW, Augsburg University, 2018; BA, Augsburg College, 2014

Meghan Haas

Credentials: MSW, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 2021; BSW, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 2020

Position title: Teaching Assistant

Sangdo Han

Credentials: MSW, Washington University in St. Louis, 2020; BSW, University of Seoul, 2018

Position title: Research Assistant

Jill Hoiting

Credentials: MSW, UW-Madison, 2010; BS, University of Georgia, 2008

HeeJin Kim

Credentials: MA, Brown University, 2011; BA, Brown University, 2010

Victoria Knoke

Credentials: MSW, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014; BSW, University of Illinois at Springfield, 2010

Anna Ko

Credentials: BA, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 2012; MPP, Seoul National University, 2016

Position title: Teaching Assistant

Jamie Koenig

Credentials: University of Chicago AM'20, AB'19

Position title: Project Assistant

Jungjin Koo

Credentials: MS 2020, University of Pennsylvania; MSW 2019, BSW 2017, Chung-Ang University

Position title: Project Assistant and Graduate Research Fellow at IRP

Grace Landrum

Credentials: BSW UW-Madison '22; MSW UW-Madison '24

Position title: Project Assistant

Katarina Liptrot-Ploch

Credentials: BA, Marquette University, 2016; MSW, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2018

Amy Yinan Liu

Credentials: MS, University of Amsterdam, 2023; BA, University of Hong Kong, 2020

Position title: Project Assistant

Sarah Ridzy Meier

Credentials: MSW, University of Michigan, 2020; BA, University of Michigan, 2018; AA, Raritan Valley Community College, 2016

Position title: Teaching Assistant

Leslie Orrantia

Credentials: BA, Sociology & Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, 2007

Position title: Project Assistant

Liz Premo

Credentials: MSW, UW-Madison, 2020; BS, UW-Madison, 2014

Helenia Quince

Credentials: BASW, Azusa Pacific University 2015, MSW University of Southern California 2018

Position title: Project Assistant

Aaron Reilly

Credentials: BSW and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018

Rachel Reynders

Credentials: BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015

Ann Shun Swanson

Credentials: M.S. in Human Development & Family Studies, Penn State, 2024 (expected)

Position title: Project Assistant & Kemper Knapp Fellow

Daniel Sintim

Credentials: Master of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, 2020 Graduate Research Assistant; BA. Social Work, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, 2016 Teaching Assistant

Taylan Stulting

Credentials: MSW: Simmons University, 2022; MA: University of Sussex, 2017; BA: Bucknell University, 2016

Kathryn Taber

Credentials: BA, Lawrence University, 2016; MSW, UW - Madison, 2018

Position title: Lecturer

Anna Walther

Credentials: MSW from UW-Madison, 2023

Position title: Research Assistant, Institute for Research on Poverty

Mai Xiong

Credentials: BA, Sociology and Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis, 2020

Position title: Project Assistant

Laura Zimmerman

Credentials: BA in Psychology and Philosophy, UW-Madison, MSW, UW-Madison