Ridgewood Native Julian Lynch Recognized as 2012 Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellow
Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has awarded Julian Lynch a Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship in support of his graduate work in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, specifically on the role of festivals and music in India and their place within narratives of social change. Lynch, from Ridgewood, NJ, is recognized for his work that deepens international understanding and promotes global social justice. More information on Lynch, along with each of the other five fellows and their individual projects, can be found at https://global.wisc.edu/skj/fellows/.
The work of this year’s fellows embodies the Wisconsin Idea, the belief that education should influence and improve the lives of people beyond the university classroom. Scott Kloeck-Jenson, after whom this award is named, lived his life by this principle.
This year’s fellows again represent a broad range of country interests and disciplinary approaches. In addition to Lynch, the following graduate students will conduct research & internships in memory of Scott and his legacy:
• David Bresnahan, a doctoral student in African history, whose current research interests focus on pre-colonial coastal East Africa.
• Erin Kitchell, a master’s student in geography, whose academic interests include land-use planning in pastoral zones, local responses to climate risk in the Sahel, and the role of social learning in decision-making about environmental issues.
• Vijay Limaye, a joint Ph.D. student in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Population Health Sciences, who will be working as an intern at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi, India, exploring the health consequences of ambient air pollution (particulate matter and ozone), a growing problem in many Indian cities.
• Nancy Rydberg, a doctoral candidate pursuing a joint degree in Educational Policy Studies and Development Studies, whose current research focuses on how war, forced migration, displacement and war-related poverty relate to gendered changes in the material and social circumstances of communities living in northern Uganda.
• Bethany Wilinski, a doctoral student pursuing a joint degree in Educational Policy Studies and Curriculum and Instruction, who this summer will work as an intern for USAID in Ethiopia, assisting with an education project focused on facilitating home-school connections for children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.
In its 12th year, the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship and Global Studies have provided 102 students with travel to more than 50 countries to pursue work and research on peace and social justice issues. Scott was completing doctoral work on rural poverty in Mozambique province of Zambezia with his family on a Fulbright scholarship. There, he was also the field director for the Land Tenure Center’s Mozambique project. He was due to return to the U.S. in January 2000 to complete his dissertation with UW–Madison but, tragically, on June 23, 1999, Scott, his wife, Barbara, and their two children, Zoe and Noah, were killed in a car accident in South Africa.