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Number 82, Fall 2001, p. 10

Ph.D. in Development Studies

Moving in . . .
students entering the program

Tae Hyung (Michael) Kim, South Korea. MA Public Policy, Seoul National University.
hkim3@students.wisc.edu
Mr. Kim is on leave from his position as Assistant Director of the Korea International Cooperation Agency, which is the official grant-aid agency of South Korea. He will be studying the impact of aid on international development.

Sandra Pinel, United States. MA Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
slpinel@students.wisc.edu
Ms. Pinel most recently was a Senior Planner at the Metropolitan Council in Minnesota, where she helped establish local, regional, and state priorities for public services. She will be working on applying ethnographic methods to analyzing indigenous participation in regional planning structures.

Moving on . . .
those who successfully defended

Jean Geran, United States. Thesis: "Coping with Crisis: Social Capital and the Resilience of Rural livelihoods in Northern Thailand." Advisor: Ian Coxhead, Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, United Kingdom. Thesis: "Adapting to Land Reform: Self-Selection, Production and the Response of Subsistence Farmers to Land Restitution in Post-Socialist Romania." Advisor: Kathryn Hendley, Law and Political Science.

Francisia Seda, Indonesia. Thesis: "Petroleum Paradox: Natural Resources and Development in Indonesia, 1967-1997." Advisor: William Freudenburg, Rural Sociology.

Margaret Welsh, United States. Thesis: "Management of Mountain Forest and Pasture Resources in Albania: Local Control and Tenure Security in a Post-Reform Economy." Advisor: J. Lin Compton, Forest Ecology and Management.

Dissertations will soon be available from UMI Dissertation Services.

Development alums: Let us hear from you! What interesting new work are you engaged in? What challenging land development issues have become paramount in your field or region of the world? Send information to the Editor. Send change of address notice to ltc-uw@facstaff.wisc.edu, or use the form at
http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc/alumform.html

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