Elizabeth Ann Neary
Position title: Project Assistant (2020-2024)
Elizabeth is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UW–Madison. She specializes in cultural exchanges between Christians and Muslims on the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th and 17th centuries. Her dissertation…
Miranda Alksnis
Position title: Hourly Graduate Assistant (2022-2023)
Miranda is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at UW–Madison. She studies the intersection of early modern English drama, early modern reproductive biology, and genre theory. She earned her B.A. from the University of…
Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki
Position title: Hourly Graduate Assistant (2022-2023)
Marina is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Her research focuses on bucolic poetry and its reception in Antiquity and idealized descriptions of the countryside. She earned an…
Ann W. Harris
Position title: Assistant to the Director (2009-2021)
Ann Wysor Harris joined the Institute for Research in the Humanities in July 2009. Before this she held positions in the Deans’ office at UW-Extension, at the Small Business Development Center, and at the School…
Katie Elizabeth Apsey
Position title: Project Assistant (2017-2020)
Katie Apsey is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a master’s degree in Art History from Concordia University in Montreal. Her research focuses on Contemporary…
Hadis Ghaedi
Position title: Events Support (2017-2019)
Hadis Ghaedi is a Ph.D. Candidate in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests involve applied linguistics, discourse analysis, academic writing and second language acquisition. She has been teaching Academic Writing…
Daniel Kim
Position title: Project Assistant (2015-2017)
Daniel (Danny) Kim is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation focusing on the history of modern Korea, especially the period of Japanese colonization, and the history…
Loretta Freiling
Position title: Assistant (1959-2010)
Loretta Freiling, the remarkable staff person who helped Marshall Clagett establish the Institute in 1959, continued to work for the Institute until her second retirement in 2010. In many ways, she was the “human face”…